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[Avalanche04]

Ok folk's its time i post what has been going on the last couple of month's in my life. first the wife and i became grandparents on 12/11/11 little boy named sawyer. what a bundle of joy!! anyway since then we have decided too put our house up for sale, we want too down size and too be honest my taxes are going through the roof. in illinois we pay a tax yearly instead of a personal property tax that missouri has. anyway my taxes has slowly creeped up over 4,200$ over the last 10 years when we bought the house 10 years ago my taxes were only 2,000$ and yes we have protested them several times. too only have them go right back up the following year. so we have decided too take what ever money we make on the sale of our house, and buy some property and slowly build, the wife wants a log cabin.

[mhguy77]

Best of luck to you.  My Father just moved back to Arkansas from IL. 
He said the taxes were his reasoning as well. The best of luck to you.

[MissinTheGreenTrams]

Start sending off for the freebee log cabin stuff!! I have a dream of one day building a cabin as well and have a book where I have the best of the best designs and styles. Nerdy I know but its also nice to look on when I am down and need a boost!

[Avalanche04]

thank you all so very much!! and missin that's not nerdy at all and thank you as soon as i get off the fans site then I'm going too start looking for them book's.

[sanddunerider]

with you on the tax thing avalanch, here in kansas we have yearly property taxes, when i bought my 13 acres it was about 1500.00 per year, now, after an addition to the house,, and some concrete outside for parking mine is about 4500.00 per year!!,  Sometimes i think about selling and renting a home.!!!

Anyway good luck on you home "trading".

could buy you a big RV, I hear Rube owns some property on indian point

[MissinTheGreenTrams]

I use a hard cover Pro Art Sketch book. Its around 8.00 at an Hobby Lobby. I have "scrap booked" pictures of Silver Dollar City/Branson/Cabins and the like.

[tiffanylynnt]

My dream has always been to live in a cabin on the outskirts of Branson some day.

If you get a cabin, make sure you fill it with a bunch of SDC-style decorations!

[Gilligan]

Funny how things pop up on this site.  My husband and I were just talking about this issue and   have also been looking into states with a lower tax base.  Arkansas is No. 1 on or list. Following close behind is Kentucky.

[Junior]

Arkansas is a cheap place to live, but also has lower salaries for jobs than other states. Let's say you are a cop in Illinois...you will probably make $35,000 to $70,000 depending on the size of the town and how high of a rank you have. In Arkansas, on the low end you might make $18-21,000 per year, on the high end, $40-$50K. But in Illinois, rent or mortgage might be $1,250 or more a month. In Arkansas, $800 to $1250. But you can live in Arkansas, work in Missouri and make more money if you have the job skills. Then, if you place yourself in the right place, you will be only a very short drive from Branson and SDC. Kind of nice to have a vacation playground within spitting distance of your backyard!

[Gilligan]

Within spitting distance of Branson would suit me fine for retirement.  Southwest Missouri and Arkansas both have beautiful blue, blue waters.  With the high traffic now present on TRL, we have ventured to Bullshoals a few times in the last couple of years.  Went there last summer and the darn marina was missing!  Well, it was sort of there - if you looked toward the middle of the lake.  It was 20 feet above flood, and we didn't know it.  Disappointing day!  But...we'll be back this summer.

[Zephon]

I always dreamed of buying a nice motor coach, towing a small car or motorcycle, and traveling the land.  Parking it here or there for a couple of months, finding a temp job, and then moving on.  The national park service offers a program where you can stay at a park and work for them...thought that sounds good.  The price of gas makes that look less attractive now though.

[Avalanche04]

we have thought about buying a big RV but it's not possible at this time and its going too take time too sell and save for what we want but I'm willing to do what ever it takes. thanks for all your input.

[U Smell Smoke]

I live in Illinois too Avalanche and certainly understand about property taxes.  Throw in the 66% state income tax increase a year or so ago and you certainly don't have a state that is very friendly to business or families.  Despite the high taxes, we are one of the most broke states in the nation and I think I read where Illinois has the worst credit rating of any state in the country.  The politicians here can't kick the urge to spend like drunken sailors. No offense meant to drunken sailors.

[thelarsonsix]

I always dreamed of buying a nice motor coach, towing a small car or motorcycle, and traveling the land.  Parking it here or there for a couple of months, finding a temp job, and then moving on.  The national park service offers a program where you can stay at a park and work for them...thought that sounds good.  The price of gas makes that look less attractive now though.

A lot of the private RV parks as well as State and COE parks do this as well.

[sanddunerider]

WOW!! al those taxes in Illinois!!??? 

Man I sure hope we never get a President from there!!! 

LMAO!! 

OOPS Too late!!