I feel you on the taxes. I don't mind them right now because taxes drive up prices and drive out renters, and since I'll probably move here at the beach a couple more times, I'll take the equity appreciation once the market turns. Plus, with the baby girl getting closer to school age, I don't mind paying a few extra dollars to help her education. No way I am sending her to private school unless she ends up having special learning needs. My wife and I both feel that our kids are going to live life surrounded by criminals/hooligans so they might as well get used to surviving their tactics/distractions from a young age.
"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn." C.S. Lewis
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