So for income and tax purposes what state is best to live in?

Wow you guys must make those big bucks to worry about state income taxes.

 

And don't buy into the notion that if it's an income tax state, then property/automobile taxes, registration fees, sales taxes, etc are lower. That's generally a BS statement when you look into it.

Point is, they all try and gouge you. May as well eliminate as much gouging as you have control over. State income taxes are not an insignificant amount IMO, no matter where you fall in the income range.

 

Not so cheap living on a boat anymore unless you find a piece of crap that you don't want to ever leave the slip in so you never pull it out for a bottom job.
Also many of the marinas don't want live aboards anymore and also want you to carry full coverage and liability in case your boat sinks they don't have to pay to remove it. Live aboard marinas are becoming very rare species.

 

That’s why you want to live near the border of Tennessee .
And Tennessee has a super high tax rate of you buy a shot of liquor in a Restraunt

 

Well I get that, if I was going to do this truck thing right ... hehe ... I would move to one of two states, Nevada which isn't all that bad or Wyoming where I have a lot of family - all other states have some sort of justified taxes on other things, I told my wife if Florida would pass their no property tax bill, we would be in a motor home going down there to find property to live on in a NY minute.

OH I pay about 2% taxes here, it has a 4.25% rate but after all the credits and crap, it comes out to ... well really 1.8%.

 

Wyoming or Montana. Case closed.
And as pointed out earlier, don’t bring your liberal politics with you.

 

If you want fairly cheap then I’d say South Dakota. Sales tax is in the 6% range and it’s dirt cheap to license a vehicle once you pay the 3% tax on it.

 

Anyone have any experience with what Kentucky is like? Specifically the Paducah/Murray region...

 

Say what you want about Kentucky but at least they has the foresight long ago to widen a good portion of their interstates to 3 lane. Another plus? They make some pretty good distilled spirits so at least a few seem to be worth hanging out with.