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Originally Posted by Halon
Just because their income tax is lower, doesn't mean they don't still get you in other ways. North Dakota is a conservative state, but Fargo as it grows faster is starting to feel less that way. There's lots of special taxes, they want to build a damn around the city New Orleans style which they have to fund. Lots of schools going up because of how quick it's growing. Houses (built in the last decade) all come with a bunch of special assessments. Sales tax on clothing.
But as a state, ND usually does not have money issues like MN seems to always have. They are loaded and are conservative. It's almost always windy there also, which makes winter that much more shitty.
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Yea, I found out about the clothing tax, but people said they just go to Moorhead to shop. And also, I think property taxes are higher too and several other things. I asked my tax person which state he would recommend and its not really clear cut, depends on a lot of things but housing appreciation was at the top of his list. I might just pick based on finding a house I like vs anything else but we will see.
Yea, Fargo is windy as shit, I have been traveling there at least monthly for a while now if not every other week somtimes, so I have a good feel for it weather wise. It's cold for sure, but not much worse than here, at least not bad enough to not want to go because of that.
I'll have to do more research on taxes etc before I make a call on which state I pick, MN or ND as I could do fargo or moorhead.
I haven't gotten the details from my company yet, but I am hoping my raise will be enough to where I won't care AS MUCH about a few hundred dollars and care more about picking the house/neighborhood I like more. But who knows, tough to say until they give me more details.