MA vs CT (living)

[Bayer-Z28]

I've heard that Ma lowered their state taxes from the recent elections. I've got an interview for a job in Windsor CT on Friday that I am PRAYING I get. (My forte' = heavy Equipment operator)

CT is RAPE expensive to live in and a horridly blue state. They charge around $360/year JUST for CAR TAXES. Not sales tax, CAR TAX. My parents are paying over $3000/yr in taxes for their 1100 sq ft ranch built in 1956. (My property taxes for a 1222 sqft home built in 1979 in NM were $1200/yr) CT state sales tax is 6% God knows about the income tax.

The cost of living in CT is just soo damn high it's unreal and my monthly budget is around $2200/mo JUST for basic cost of living and two bills. Now that would actually go up to around $2500/mo with the truck loan. CT is also ANAL about ATV's.. Hunting quads are ok, but a sport quad OH NO!! You'd BETTER not get caught with one.. Everything is "private property" and these rich assholes get all bent out of shape whenever they HEAR you start your quad. My uncle had a neighbor call the cops on him because he took his dirt bike around the culdesac at the end of his DW.. He wasn't even out 5 minutes.

If I can move to mass, I will.

Ideas?

[Formula413]

MA state sales tax is 6.25%, income tax is around 5%, and car excise tax is $25 per $1000 book value (in my experience they tend to under value cars). From what I understand there are not many good places for ATV riding. And don't move up here if you want to complain about things being "blue", that's what Nebraska is for.

[DAWG]

And I thought mass was a blue state lol
well us rich fuckers who overpay taxes dont have vehicle safety inspections lol.
depending on the mil rate of the town you live in will dictate what your taxes will be.
where i live the mil rate is 22.59%

[Bayer-Z28]

MIL rate????

[frankzlt1]

Mill rate is what your taxes are based on, every town has a different rate.

[DAWG]

The property tax rate is expressed in mills or thousandths of a dollar. A tax rate (mill rate) of 11.74 mills is equivalent to $11.74 of taxes per $1,000 of assessed value. In Connecticut the property assessment is equal to 70% of the fair market value of the property as established by the municipal Assessor. Each town sets its own mill rate; some municipalities have different mill rates for different districts within that town. Assessment dates for property on the Grand List must be assessed by October 1st of the preceding year. So for property taxes due July 1st, 2010 and January 1, 2011 are determined from assessments computed by the town assessor prior to October 1, 2009. Typically the majority of Connecticut towns, real property taxes are payable for the current tax year on July 1st and January 1st, this is the same as the state’s fiscal year. But in some towns payments are made quarterly so check with town hall first.

[ILuvPizzaTimes10]

i like living in mass. plenty of places to ride if you know were to go. certain areas are Ritzy like your dealing with. but all in all i found all of New England to be the same as far as taxes an cost of living go. good luck in your choice. be do alot of research before you move anywere!!!

[Bayer-Z28]

^ True, true.. THanx bud.. I was looking west of Agawam, near Granville.. :) Out in the sticks.

[BadBird505]

i bought my house in mass taxes aren't to bad,dawg is right it's all about location even in mass some towns property tax is higher then others, as for atv riding in mass there are plenty of places might not be legal but nobody bothers you. i ride in a small sand pit in auburn,ma there is a huge sand pit in leominster,ma so there out there. sh!t i ride my zilla in my back yard i could give a crap what the neighbors think

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[irockidz28]

i have pretty much stopped riding around my area because every where i used to go is not developed..4 of the places are now neighborhoods one is a gas station..another i have been kicked out twice by the cops..so stopped going there...but as for living here its really not bad...every town/state will have its flaws....good luck!!

[Bayer-Z28]

I wanna get a sled for the winter.. I've got property in Maine and my aunt up there has 6 FUKIN INCHES ALREADY!!! SOFB the winters here suck these days! The wind picks up and blows all the snow out of the fields and into the damn woods. POINTLESS!

[kaboom]

u think its tuff riding a quad wait untill u try using a sled in ct it like tring to wipe yr ass with a q-tip, not enuff. do yr home work looking for a house, i bought in killingly ct about 5 min from both mass and ri and it was by far the cheapest (10 yrs ago) theres def some EXPENSIVE places in mass but same could be said for ct. but i would never live in mass, there not even a state their a commonwealth, eeewwwhh

[Bayer-Z28]

^ I won't get a sled till I find out the state I'm living in is OK with it............ Maine...

[ILuvPizzaTimes10]

northern mass is actually Nice for riding and skis. out on route 2 has ALOT of nice out back woods places and decent snow.

[Bayer-Z28]

^ SWEET! :D I just wanna go play! I haven't played in the snow in YEARS and I'm just getting frustrated.

[BadBird505]

tons of snowmobiling out by me, miles of trails run and maintained by the snowbirds. you could go out all day and still not hit all the trails.

[bottledbird68]

northern mass is actually Nice for riding and skis. out on route 2 has ALOT of nice out back woods places and decent snow.

Ahyup, trails everywhere out here. I hit them all the time in the jeep during the rest of the year :)