everyones leaving IL

[Bruce Jibboo]

Yup. The key is to make the city wage and live in the sticks. Exactly what I do.

Once again, my yearly prop taxes are $750 for 10 acres....

what is the commute miles, time, and traffic like?

 

[DEEZUZ]

what is the commute miles, time, and traffic like?

28 miles in 26 minutes. 2 Lane Farm roads entire way.

I'm commuting from the southern Lowell area to Crown Point.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

wifey, bein' from the south, wants to head back south. and i've been toying with the idea and trying to figure out how to make it make sense

you guys have two incomes, and no kids (yet?), a lot easier to make that work. Especially if you have some equity in property to sell and buy down yonder

 

[Yaj Yak]

you guys have two incomes, and no kids (yet?), a lot easier to make that work. Especially if you have some equity in property to sell and buy down yonder

all very true.

ugh.

 

[Chet Donnelly]

Unfortunately for IL, there isn't any clear path to getting better. We have a union/liberal run state, and the numbers speak for themselves.

I'm stuck because of family, but retirement will not be here thats for sure.

 

[RICH17]

I think it would be much easier to move away with a spouse than it would be alone. I'd like to head south to texas but not while I am single.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

they have wimmins down there too

 

[Rent Free]

LOL IL taxes........ I should look up cost of living in ND. Oil and DoD companies building mfg. facilities to ND keep bringing in more and more people.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

Its cold as FUCK in ND

 

[Chester Copperpot]

You can always put more, or better engineered, layers on.

 

[Yaj Yak]

"downtown" richmond, kentucky on over a half acre, for $1700 a month with 20% down.

because $2500 a year in taxes...

https://www.redfin.com/KY/Richmond/400-Breck-Ave-40475/home/97290763

 

[Rent Free]

Its cold as FUCK in ND

Lots and lots of snow here too plenty to Braaap in and the cold keeps the rif raff out!

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

You can always put more, or better engineered, layers on.

I don't mind the cold but if its going to be cold preferably in or around the mountain ranges.

this is the gear the scientists are rolling up in the arctic circle

https://www.canadagoose.com/us/en/home-page

 

[Rent Free]

"downtown" richmond, kentucky on over a half acre, for $1700 a month with 20% down.

because $2500 a year in taxes...

https://www.redfin.com/KY/Richmond/400-Breck-Ave-40475/home/97290763

20% down on a 350k house....... 70k down no thanks!! Sure glad i got to use VA financing on my house!

 

[Yaj Yak]

if you bought right and played a few right cards, 70k down really isn't too nuts to come by i feel.

 

[OffshoreDrilling]

Wait... what?

So if you work at sayyyy Discount tire in Chicago and move to a Discount tire in Tennessee, you're going to get paid less, just because it's TN? That's not true at all. We lost a good engineer to the same lab I'm applying to, he didn't get more money, he got the same, however the cost of living there is ~20% less, thus giving him 20% more of his money back to himself.

yep.

I have a buddy who works for one of the big 4 accounting firms. He's being forced to take short term job in tampa basically, with the promise of being able to move back here. Getting a salary decrease due to the market down there.

Not always going to be the case and i'd bet you have a lot easier staying atthe same wage by transferring within your company. Switching employers though, no way.

we had a health physics guy come up here from ORNL for two years because of the higher wages, moved back and took the lower pay back at ORNL. Something like a very specific engineering discipline will likely translate the same though.

 

[Rent Free]

if you bought right and played a few right cards, 70k down really isn't too nuts to come by i feel.

If you could sell a house you already had some equity in sure but to cough up 70k down from savings or own funds i think would be a hell of alot harder.

unless you want to get crazy with financing like double mortage or loan for down payment.

 

[Yaj Yak]

If you could sell a house you already had some equity in sure but to cough up 70k down from savings or own funds i think would be a hell of alot harder.

unless you want to get crazy with financing like double mortage or loan for down payment.

i agree entirely

 

[LoveSpank]

Yup. The key is to make the city wage and live in the sticks. Exactly what I do.

Once again, my yearly prop taxes are $750 for 10 acres....

This and all of this!!
I will Litterally be on the wife's family farm That has been in the family since the 1800's. No neighbors and 30 acres of land.

WINNING!!

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

"downtown" richmond, kentucky on over a half acre, for $1700 a month with 20% down.

because $2500 a year in taxes...

https://www.redfin.com/KY/Richmond/400-Breck-Ave-40475/home/97290763

 

[Yaj Yak]

#aintcare

you can come visit me in my pride house when it's 65* in january and 12 here.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

keep dem guest rooms furnished and ready

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

Wait... what?

So if you work at sayyyy Discount tire in Chicago and move to a Discount tire in Tennessee, you're going to get paid less, just because it's TN? That's not true at all. We lost a good engineer to the same lab I'm applying to, he didn't get more money, he got the same, however the cost of living there is ~20% less, thus giving him 20% more of his money back to himself.

Also, living in IL in general, you're paying close to LA premiums to live here. HERE? Cold ass shitty salt infested winters that ruin everything. Right down the street from a city full of murders, poverty and corruption. I'll probably be stuck here until I get my lazy ass up and get a GD degree.

I don't believe you pay income tax in TN either.

 

[Bruce Jibboo]

same with NV, anyone know IL is still charging us 5% ? didn't it go from 3% to 5% but was supposed to go back down?

 

[Yaj Yak]

The tax table below will show in detail the Tennessee state income tax rates by income tax bracket(s). There are 1 income tax brackets for Tennessee.

If your income range is $0 and over, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 6%.

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The tax table below will show in detail the Kentucky state income tax rates by income tax bracket(s). There are 6 income tax brackets for Kentucky.

If your income range is between $0 and $3,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 2%.
If your income range is between $3,001 and $4,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 3%.
If your income range is between $4,001 and $5,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 4%.
If your income range is between $5,001 and $8,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 5%.
If your income range is between $8,001 and $75,000, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 5.8%.
If your income range is $75,001 and over, your tax rate on every dollar of income earned is 6%.

Income tax brackets data last updated March 3rd, 2009.

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just snagged that off the goooogle.