I'm sick of this!

Gary, IN has a ton of abandoned houses, but then again it is Gary...

 

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lol stay away from Gary, It’s safer living with trailer park meth head hillbillies than in Gary… you won’t be able to have back yard furniture nor a nice car in that neighborhood.

 

I wouldn't pick Gary. Indiana taxes are not horrible. I'm rural my property tax is very small.


Japan. It looks fun. They need children.

 

Indiana likes to portray itself as a low tax, low cost of living state. When looking at the totals for the state, that is a true statement. When looking at those earning less than $130k, things look much differently. Were I to move my house to a comparable area in Indiana, my effective tax rate would go up by .25 percentage points and cost of living would be about 5-8% higher.

In the OP's case, he's obsessed by state income tax and thinks that by living in a state with no income taxes he's saving money. Almost all states with no income taxes have higher sales and property taxes making things a wash. The exception is Tennessee.