I'm a CPA, and when I read this I spit Cap'n & Coke all over my computer screen...

Low tax rates? Perhaps to your point your property taxes are below average (in CT), but we all get HOSED in this state by the end of the year. Sure, we're better off than those out in the Socialist Republic of Californistan or across the borders in Tax-A-Chusetts or ... New York (yeah, haven't heard a disparaging tax-related nick-name for that one yet...but trust me, it's a hell-hole of government inefficiency) but even if we win the rat-race against them we're still all rats.




Oh, and to the post's purpose - my entire family less my two grandparents in NC live here, we're all close, and no-one is willing to move away from anyone else, so we stay. I grew up in New Milford along with my wife, now we live in Kent and just about every in-law/relative is within 30 minutes of us in any direction making holidays a complete fiasco...but we love it and we'll never trade it for anything.