Based on recent news, if you live in certain parts of IL, it can cost you everything, including your life.
It's all about the body parts scale, the further north you look at, the more body parts you'll have to sell to live there.
This is just me talking, but I'm not sure the water cooler of a bowhunting forum is the best place to ask this question. Might I suggest google.com?
You couldn't be anymore wrong. Look around you. Brilliant minds every where here. LOL I agree. Google anything you want and you'll get it. You can google by state, areas within etc. You'll get the hard fast facts of bias politicians and activist. LOL Seriously.... google it man.
If you like corrupt goverment and high taxes .........with the likely chance of it getting worse then Illinois is for you.
Where in IL? There's a pretty huge difference between 'Chicago' (and metro areas) and downstate. Chicago's sales tax is the highest of any big city, with some districts having an 11% sales tax. Statewide: There are fees for everything. The state is more than $9 billion behind on it's bills and has un-funded liabilities of more than 93 billion dollars. It's a dead beat state with the lowest credit rating in the nation. State facilities are closing. The DNR is down to bare bones and will probably be closing parks and cutting more services very soon. THere will still be more fee increases. (but don't count on any increase in services) No concealed or open carry allowed. State Police issued FOID card required to possess or purchase guns or ammo. ....but it is a 'Union Friendly' state.
BTW, I live 150 miles from Chitcago and still pay too much in taxes. Quinn raised our income taxes 67%. So on top of the sales taxes (7.75% in my county) and income taxes, the property tax on this 1,300 sq ft.. 130 year old bungalow.... was $4,200.00. Oh, and we have some of the highest gasoline taxes in the nation too.
Yup illinois SUCKS....... friggen property taxes All they want to do is raise taxes State cant pay its bills. All they do is drain funds from one Dept to pay anothers bills.........look how they have broke the Dept of Natural Resources.
States like IL, CA and NY have one large, crazy metro area, and an ENORMOUS rural area which they subject to the laws deemed necessary to run the city, then exploit to pay for city programs they'll never see. It's really sad. I think Chicagoland, Long Island and SoCal should be separate states. Me personally? I'd move next door to Indiana. Misspellings courtesy of iPhone, so sue me. Go ahead, take away my birthday!
You could check out rent.com to figure out what the rents are. There are other websites where you can check out what single-family separate houses or "townhomes" (a side by side multi-family building) or "condos" ( a multi-multi family building aka "owning an apartment as it is called in Europe") cost. You can google property tax rates by county. You can google sales tax rates by county and city. State income taxes are easy to google. Fed income taxes are the same. You can google gasoline prices too for a given city or state. Groceries don't vary that much from place to place since they are nationally produced and shipped around. The only exception would be remote places like Alaska or Hawaii, where food costs a whole lot more because everything must be trucked or shipped in. Google puts the world at your fingertips. But you still need to do the work.
California has 4 metro areas, to wit: - Los Angeles/San Diego/San Bernardino - San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose - Sacramento - Redding In between these are hundreds of miles of semi-rural and rural lands. Don't forget that we are the top producer of agriculture in the USA. Not just a monster cityscape like NYC or Philly or Chicago.
In the interest of brevity I only mentioned LA, even though there are other metro areas and lots of farmland in CA. The main point I was trying to make is that if you move to a rural area in a state that has one of these large cities, you still have to follow the rules and pay the taxes that were put in place with the city in mind. Misspellings courtesy of iPhone, so sue me. Go ahead, take away my birthday!
