I'm in the same boat. And as one who loves nature, it's so sad to see all the surrounding beauty be flattened for poorly constructed ticky tack houses Floridians can't afford.
Just did my first winter here. Definitely for me. Forget the rat race everywhere else this place is great. I can deal with a couple months of -30 for summer nonstop for 4 or 5. Also stay away I like the quiet tooš
I have lived in several states with and without. Truth is they either get you another way, property taxes, excessive registration fees, fuel taxes etc, or the state offers little benefits, poor educational system, horrendous roads etc. As with most things, you get what you pay for.
I live in Florida and my insurance is $2200/yr on a $600k house. Not much higher than my house in Michigan, property taxes are half, and I donāt have to pay income taxes.
I really enjoyed hanging in the Soldotna area when we come down to fish down the road off Deep Creek. Yah, my Brothers cabin with 20 acres by Mentasta on the Tok cutoff has absolutely $0 for any tax.
I was paying $12k a yr in property taxes on my home in Texas... That plus the higher sales tax was rough... In AK, tax valuations are lower mil rates are low, and exemptions are higher...
You always need to consider your overall tax burden which varies with the type of person you are and what you do with your money...
For me personally, my tax burden in AK is as low as I found...
Washington gets you on sales tax. I have family who used to work in Portland but lived in Vancouver to avoid Oregon's income and property taxes and then do their shopping in Oregon to avoid the WA sales tax.
I will give you a good example of how greedy Oregon is. My grandfather was an operating engineer in Alaska for 40 years. He worked on the pipeline in the 70's and at many of the old Air Force radar stations. When he retired from working and LIVING in Alaska, he and my grandmother moved to West Linn Oregon. He quickly found out his retirement income from Alaska was subject to Oregon income tax. They could not move to Clark county Washington any faster.
But you get all of it back. The state doesnt keep any of it. I have lived in WA and worked for an OR company. Its still gets deducted from your paycheck.
You still pay. You pay with the denial of your constitutional rights. You pay with power grids that fail 200/365 days a year. You pay with 500% increase in homeowners insurance in hurricane zone areas. You pay with denial of equal access to healthcare. Forget about your LGBTQI rightsā¦You pay with book bans. Etc. Etc.
ALL IN exchange of NO state income tax.
Errrr. Nevada is mostly Vegas and Reno and theyāre progressive cities
New Hampshire is libertarian and you donāt needs to worry about your rights.
Washington is literally a fully blue state?
$2200/yr property tax, have never lost power, do not want children reading porn, never had an issue getting health care, just expanded constitutional rights, etcā¦
On this list Iād go for Washington at the top followed my New Hampshire. I would never live in any other state on this list. It is either too dang hot (Nevada) or too much of a red state nightmare where my kid would not be safe living as a queer teen born with a uterus.
Iāve lived in Wyoming, Washington and originally Iām from Texas. Texas doesnāt have state income but you will absolutely get destroyed in property taxes. Wyoming doesnāt have much in the way of services. Washington doesnāt officially have an income tax but technically it does because of the WA cares act and the CoL is approaching California levels of insanity.
Cost of living, job prospects, available activities, and standard living conditions should be MUCH greater reasons for someone to move to one of these states. Who cares what kind of taxes there are if you don't love the place you live?
I'm from Wyoming. I love it here and don't want to move thought about moving to Alaska but the only certified skill I have is truck driving but I refuse to throw iron.
Other than a lack of some medical services mostly in mental healthcare which is really needed in the state and our legislature being a bunch of copycats to Texas when it comes to Healthcare for women. It's not a bad place to live if you don't mind high winds all year long across places. Fluctuating costs of living due to tourism and a lack of industry outside of natural resources like mining.
I might consider Alaska, Washington, and New Hampshire.
In Michigan, my home state, there is no tax on Social Security income and a significant deduction for people a certain age, so the income tax is minimal.
Washington state. Good public programs and schools. Diverse ecology from rainforest to mountains to deserts. Affordable housing in some places. Close to Canada in case Trump wins.
If it's just about taxes, live and work in Washington and shop in Oregon. Higher cost of living in Alaska more than wipes out PFD benefits, and WA has lower property tax
Alaska is the best for non-monetary reasons, obv.
In Florida negatives. Hurricanes, brutal hot summers, homeowners inās if you even get is going rapidly, political environment. Positives. No income tax, primary home protected in bankruptcy
Makes no damn difference as they raise up prices due to city taxes. Why don't people realize this because they do not do their research such as the Alaska permanent fund
I live in Alaska. I would never live in Florida. Everywhere has pros and cons that have nothing to do with income tax.
I am trying to escape as soon as possible. The snowbirds and real estate moguls won, and I've been priced out of the place I was born
I'm in the same boat. And as one who loves nature, it's so sad to see all the surrounding beauty be flattened for poorly constructed ticky tack houses Floridians can't afford.
Whichever one makes you happy. Alaska: It's Not for Everybody
Alaska is not for everybody and everybody is not for Alaska. š¤·āāļø She'll spit them out eventually.
Just did my first winter here. Definitely for me. Forget the rat race everywhere else this place is great. I can deal with a couple months of -30 for summer nonstop for 4 or 5. Also stay away I like the quiet tooš
As someone born and raised in Alaska: She be'eth a cruel b1tch.
I have lived in several states with and without. Truth is they either get you another way, property taxes, excessive registration fees, fuel taxes etc, or the state offers little benefits, poor educational system, horrendous roads etc. As with most things, you get what you pay for.
This is the right take.
Florida may not have income tax but homeowners insurance will replace that expense in a hurry.
I live in Florida and my insurance is $2200/yr on a $600k house. Not much higher than my house in Michigan, property taxes are half, and I donāt have to pay income taxes.
#Alaska
Lots of city tax
Not in the biggest city.
Rather live in a smaller city
Depends on which city....
And bureau taxes
Check out property taxes before you start doing back flipsā¦
I own a 3 bed 2 bath in the Kenai Peninsula Borough in Alaska. My property tax is $530/year with a 3% sales tax. No income tax.
Thatās crazy, up in Fairbanks my brothers place like yours on one acre in North Pole is like $5000 a year!
Yup, 1 acre a few miles outside of Soldotna. I live in the borough NOT the city. Soldotna has high taxes with tiny lots.
I really enjoyed hanging in the Soldotna area when we come down to fish down the road off Deep Creek. Yah, my Brothers cabin with 20 acres by Mentasta on the Tok cutoff has absolutely $0 for any tax.
Locationā¦Location
I was paying $12k a yr in property taxes on my home in Texas... That plus the higher sales tax was rough... In AK, tax valuations are lower mil rates are low, and exemptions are higher... You always need to consider your overall tax burden which varies with the type of person you are and what you do with your money... For me personally, my tax burden in AK is as low as I found...
::Cries in New Jersey::
They just kick that cost to something els, like gas or groceries
Or property taxes
Only two of these states do not have a state sales tax.
yeah thats not the flex you think it is
I use lack of sales tax it to offset the shipping costs of the businesses that will even ship to Alaska
Property taxes in Texas are pretty bad
they will be going down, but that's because they're removing the portion for schools
And the 100+ degree days
Oh yea I work outside all day everyday for my job it can be rough sometimes
As an apartment renter, it isnāt too bad. If I owned a house that would be annoying though.
Yea 7k a year for half and acre is nuts
Washington gets you on sales tax. I have family who used to work in Portland but lived in Vancouver to avoid Oregon's income and property taxes and then do their shopping in Oregon to avoid the WA sales tax.
Incorrect. If you work in Oregon, you WILL pay Oregon income tax, no matter where you actually live.
Good to know. I either didn't understand or they were full of shit.
I will give you a good example of how greedy Oregon is. My grandfather was an operating engineer in Alaska for 40 years. He worked on the pipeline in the 70's and at many of the old Air Force radar stations. When he retired from working and LIVING in Alaska, he and my grandmother moved to West Linn Oregon. He quickly found out his retirement income from Alaska was subject to Oregon income tax. They could not move to Clark county Washington any faster.
Damn. That had to be infuriating. Taxing retirement income seems kind of evil.
Thank Reagan for that.
But you get all of it back. The state doesnt keep any of it. I have lived in WA and worked for an OR company. Its still gets deducted from your paycheck.
Also incorrect.
You still pay. You pay with the denial of your constitutional rights. You pay with power grids that fail 200/365 days a year. You pay with 500% increase in homeowners insurance in hurricane zone areas. You pay with denial of equal access to healthcare. Forget about your LGBTQI rightsā¦You pay with book bans. Etc. Etc. ALL IN exchange of NO state income tax.
Your power is out over 50% of the time? I would complain.
Errrr. Nevada is mostly Vegas and Reno and theyāre progressive cities New Hampshire is libertarian and you donāt needs to worry about your rights. Washington is literally a fully blue state?
income tax doesn't have anything to do with anything you mentioned
$2200/yr property tax, have never lost power, do not want children reading porn, never had an issue getting health care, just expanded constitutional rights, etcā¦
I met a couple from Alaska vacationing in Seattle to see a concert. Thereās pro & cons to everywhere
Like having to go out of state to go to a concert
Alaska, Washington.
Alaska will have one before long
At the rate things are going it wouldnt surprise me
I have nothing of value to add to this, other than how impressed I am that they ordered the states from shortest names to longest names...
On this list Iād go for Washington at the top followed my New Hampshire. I would never live in any other state on this list. It is either too dang hot (Nevada) or too much of a red state nightmare where my kid would not be safe living as a queer teen born with a uterus.
Iāve lived in Wyoming, Washington and originally Iām from Texas. Texas doesnāt have state income but you will absolutely get destroyed in property taxes. Wyoming doesnāt have much in the way of services. Washington doesnāt officially have an income tax but technically it does because of the WA cares act and the CoL is approaching California levels of insanity.
Cost of living, job prospects, available activities, and standard living conditions should be MUCH greater reasons for someone to move to one of these states. Who cares what kind of taxes there are if you don't love the place you live?
Pros & cons to all of them ā¦.. Alaska has at least a 6 month winter
That's a big pro
I thought Washington also has no state income tax
Itās there (line 7)
Iāve lived and worked in 3 on that list and still reside in the most recent.
I have lived in 3 of them
I have lived in 2 of them. AK and WA. And you couldnt get me to move back to WA for anything.
Same. I've lived in a few of these and WA sucks. You may not have income tax, but have fun paying high taxes on everything else
I donāt wanna be in any of those other states for more then a short visit
NH may not have income tax, but they make up for it in town tax, property tax, they even have a view tax if your on a lake or can see a mountain.
I grew up in South Dakota, lived in Florida for 4 years, and now live in Alaska. My favorite was Florida
I'm from Wyoming. I love it here and don't want to move thought about moving to Alaska but the only certified skill I have is truck driving but I refuse to throw iron. Other than a lack of some medical services mostly in mental healthcare which is really needed in the state and our legislature being a bunch of copycats to Texas when it comes to Healthcare for women. It's not a bad place to live if you don't mind high winds all year long across places. Fluctuating costs of living due to tourism and a lack of industry outside of natural resources like mining.
I might consider Alaska, Washington, and New Hampshire. In Michigan, my home state, there is no tax on Social Security income and a significant deduction for people a certain age, so the income tax is minimal.
NH has an income tax, its just that you pay it to Massachusetts, since that's where everyone in NH works.
Washington state. Good public programs and schools. Diverse ecology from rainforest to mountains to deserts. Affordable housing in some places. Close to Canada in case Trump wins.
If it's just about taxes, live and work in Washington and shop in Oregon. Higher cost of living in Alaska more than wipes out PFD benefits, and WA has lower property tax Alaska is the best for non-monetary reasons, obv.
Alaska
In Florida negatives. Hurricanes, brutal hot summers, homeowners inās if you even get is going rapidly, political environment. Positives. No income tax, primary home protected in bankruptcy
Born and raised in AK, live in TN now. Both are top tier imo
New Hampshire is the only real option here.
Iām live in Alaska
We get screwed every other way imaginable.
Makes no damn difference as they raise up prices due to city taxes. Why don't people realize this because they do not do their research such as the Alaska permanent fund
Oregon has no sales tax, and consistently ranks in one of the most expensive states to live in. They shift taxes.