What did you do in the garden today?

[Rick589]

I can carrots. I use them when I make soup. We are a soup family, so it works for me .

How’s the texture? You say you use them for soup, how do you think they’d do in other uses?

 

[Paz]

The sick thing is the same part of government that collects the $ assigns the VALUE of your home/property that the tax is based on. They're supposed to base that on what a house sells for that is comparable to what your place is to others within a mile of your place. Makes sense if you are in a city. In the boonies there are only a couple places within a mile of your place. AND NO house compares to another out here. Covid market rush screwed up pricing as people paid above value. And every since then it's been screwed up. Last evaluation they comp'd all of us against a guy building a NEW home. UM NOT FAIR.
We can contest the amount, but last time I did, the woman said you can contest it, we'll send a person out to to redo your evaluation, but your evaluation could go UP. I took that as a threat and dropped it.

This is why ppl are NOT retiring here. They live in Missouri or Iowa or Kansas and commute here to work until they find work elsewhere.

Oh, here they calculate it pretty much the same, and the price is per built square meter. The most I oayed was in Jerusalem, around 200€ a month. For a 60sqm apartment with 20 meters garden and a 10 meters balcony