Lynnmor wrote:
pnichols wrote:
Of course The State of California keeps sending me enticing mailers offering to buy it off me for around $1000 so as to "get it off the road"
You live in a state that forcibly removes money from taxpayers and then hands it over to others causing more demand and higher prices on new trucks? How is this theft legal? Why do people live there?
Well, we kindof keep on living here because - not considering forest fires and earthquakes - we have:
1. A home worth into 7 figures, but with a mortgage left on it of only 2-3 new Ford 1-ton dually pickups.
2. Property taxes based on our home's value 41 years ago that are allowed by law to increase only around 1%-2% a year.
3. Several beautiful 100+ year old redwood trees surrounding our well and spring water sources.
4. Several decades-old fruit trees we eat off of.
5. Temperatures so nice that we never have to winterize our RV.
6. An old spring water filled swimming pool that we exercise in -> kept toasty warm by solar panels.
7. A wonderful blue sky forest filled rolling hills view I'm looking out at as I type this (until the trees maybe burn down).
8. An orchard area often occupied by coyotes, turkeys, deer, and wild boar ... in addition to various wild hawks in the sky above.
9. A country store two miles away where they know us by name and that is stocked with every food item we need if we don't care to drive into town to save a buck.
10. A state government that watches after the little guy instead of the big guy - so long as the little guy will eventually be content to sign their life away to make the payments on a battery powered Ford 1-ton dually pickup.
11. A polling place one mile away located in the recreation room of a decades-old still operating white country church with a bell tower that still chimes.
12. Our kids living close by - one in our back yard and one only a few miles away.
13. World class medical care minutes away.
14. A home insurance company that - at no additional premium charge - will dispatch a private fire fighting company to protect our home should those forest filled rolling hills ever start coming towards us in flames.
All that being said, for some strange reason we still love leaving our home to go on RV trips! :h ;)
