Re: Durofix Li-Ion screwdriver from CostCo, anyone?

On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:57:02 -0700, Joerg
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krw wrote:
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:35:37 -0700, Joerg
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krw wrote:
On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:21:38 -0700, Jim Thompson
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On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:38:42 -0700, Joerg
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http://phoenix.about.com/b/2004/11/07/arizona-property-taxes.htm
Read carefully! Less than 1% of saleable value.
Yikes! That's still high. I pay about 1/2% here in AL, though paid a
bit over 2% in VT.

You'll also have to discern between the "official" number that is often
used in business-luring ad blitzes and the real numbers. Real numbers
include all sorts of school bonds, assessments, fess and whatnot and
this can easily tack on another 1/4 to 1/2 percentage point.

That's what I really pay. Both houses are worth in the $300K region.
My property tax in VT was $6K (and rising fast). It's $1500 here. The
numbers for the state usually show about a 1% property tax but there
is a 50% "homestead deduction" for the primary residence.


Nice! The homestead exemption is $7000 of property value in CA.
"Conveniently" not inflation-indexed since the times the Romans raided
England or so, meaning the expemtion will "conveniently" go away.

Yes, I meant "exemption". Strange way they do it though. You have to
apply for it for the following year. The year starts 10/1, which was
less than a month after we closed so the timing didn't effect me much.
Not my cuppa tea. I'd prefer Texas, Arkansas and so on. As long
as
nobody messes with Prop 13 California is still kind of ok from that
perspective (lefties regularly try to break it).
I'm sorta liking Eastern AL. The winter was nice with a perfect snow
fall - 5" accumulation, for the kiddies, and none on the roads, for
me.

Do you guys like it enough there that you could imagine retiring in AL?

Not sure. It's a pretty place, though not as nice as central KY. The
area is OK (a college town - big university, small city) and the
weather is awesome. The people are very friendly but we don't really
know anyone here yet. That's somewhat of a bummer but not unexpected.


Awesome weather? That would cinch it for my wife. I don't care so much
but she wants a place where winter simply doesn't happen.

Out (electric heat pump) heat bill was about $100 for the worst month,
on top of the normal $150 or so (garbage included). The normal highs
for January was in the 40s to low 50s, with lows in the high 20s. It
got down to the mid teens once or twice. I never wore more than a
heavy corduroy shirt-jacket. I'm told this was a cold Winter.

We usually get
to know people fast. Besides church the other sure-fire way for that is
owning large dogs that need hikes of several miles per day.

My wife has been going to one of the churches here and seems to enjoy
it. We've been pretty busy though so haven't really met many people.
No dogs and the cats never go outside. ;-)
.

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