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I fell right out of my chair! Here in Vermont, in the ski town I live in, some land is going for tens of thousands of dollars per acre - and that is hillside land, only fit for building a very expensive multi-level modern house. You sure couldn't keep any livestock, unless you were raising mountain goats...
And just to make it even more fun, my house is on a third of an acre, and I pay over $2,000 in taxes. What do I get for those taxes? Well, I live on a private road so we pay for plowing. There is no town septic or water, so we pay for that also. I don't have any kids, so school taxes are just my civic responsibility, I guess...
So, as much as I adore these fabulous mountains, I can't recommend Vermont as a cheap place to live!
It's like that in Texas, as much as I love the state. The fallout of living in Oklahoma is that there is a state income tax in addition to what you pay in on federal taxes withdrawn from your paychecks. Tag regisitration is weird too, based on the blue book value of your vehicle and whatever taxes are in the county you register in. However, farmers get a lot of tax breaks.
