Help with how picking a state works

gotsmart wrote:

I disagree. If one does a bit of research on their state of choice then they can live in at mail box in any state. My vehicles were titled and insured in WA. I researched transferring them to TX or FL. I concluded that the high title transfer fees, acquiring a new drivers license, and the high auto insurance rates in those states was too much for me. I rented a mail box at a mom-and-pop parcel store located in a stand-alone building - not a strip mall. Changing my drivers license address was free ($10 if I wanted a new drivers license with the new address. I paid the $10). The auto insurance for the MH and toad went up $1 and $2 - simply because I moved 1 county away. My drivers license says "# nnnn" instead of "PMB nnnn" - because the state's computer system doesn't accept "PMB" as a valid abbreviation. If they don't care then I don't care.

Then for any other address change if they didn't accept "PMB nnnn" then I tell them "This is how the state has it on my drivers license, so if that's what they use then you can use that". I follow the path of least resistance in this regard. I have never had an address issue that wasn't easily resolved.

Try coming in from out-of-state to register your vehicles and get DL using a UPS mailbox as your physical address - can't be done as far as we could determine. Changing an address, yes, but not establishing a new one. Plus there was the additional amount of money that the state wanted in terms of registering. I was born in Skagit county so we really did want to 'come home' but the state made it impossible unless I was going to use my mothers address (could use my sister's because she lives in King county) and I didn't want my elderly mother to have to worry about getting and forwarding our mail.

Barb