We had better stop this quickly before we all go MAD! I had an email queued
up earlier and deleted it until I saw this - now I am throwing in my 2 cents
(wrong thing to do). Here in Tornado Alley (Plainfield, IL) I'm paying
$7,200 a year for 1/2 an acre plus an OK house! I need to get the heck out
of here!
Sorry for the off topic...
----- Original Message -----
From: <andylit@covad.net>
To: <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2003 3:41 PM
Subject: RE: Louisiana.....(was: anywhere in the world)
> Original Message:
>
> Jeff,
>
> Before you start getting everybody's hopes up and filling the bayous
around
> Rayne, you better tell them the rest of the story. Like where our
education
> system ranks, and the rate of teen pregnancy. You must live outside the
> city limits...and have a Parish School System. Here in Bogalusa, we have
a
> city school system and my property taxes are over $550 a year (no
homestead
> exception for city property taxes) and I can't send my daughter to the
> public schools. I used to live in Lake Charles and the my property taxes
> there were 1/5 of the taxes I have now. And the food was better on your
> side of the State as well!
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
> Oh puhleeese!
>
> I live in Wauconda IL, a small town (don't say suburb) near Chicago. I
have
> a 2300 sq ft house on 3.5 acres. Not a mansion, no palatial grounds. An
old
> farmstead gone to seed with an ok house.
>
> My property taxes this year are $9500. It's enough to make me rip my hair
> out.
>
> You cut my taxes to $500 and I'll take a few pregnant teens off your
hands.
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