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People in Seattle are soooooo unhappy with their city, that they complain about everything. They complain even about their income tax _which they do not have_. I have lived in Seattle. There is no income tax in Seattle. I have lived in NH, which is quite proud of their lack of an income tax. I paid state income tax in NH (they do have an income tax it is just on unearned income, not earned income). I live now in Massachusetts, which residents (“Massholes”) have often referred to with abrasive affection as “Taxachusetts”. How people feel about their place of residence turns out to have surprisingly little to do with objective reality in those locations. Who knew?
Obviously, there is still a federal income tax, but that was not what the question was asking about.
I, personally, think that there is some sort of lesson to be learned here, but I am not at all sure what it might be right now. Mostly, I am chuckling, and using this as a metric for explaining why I do not take a certain category of complaints at all seriously.
People in Seattle are soooooo unhappy with their city, that they complain about everything. They complain even about their income tax _which they do not have_. I have lived in Seattle. There is no income tax in Seattle. I have lived in NH, which is quite proud of their lack of an income tax. I paid state income tax in NH (they do have an income tax it is just on unearned income, not earned income). I live now in Massachusetts, which residents (“Massholes”) have often referred to with abrasive affection as “Taxachusetts”. How people feel about their place of residence turns out to have surprisingly little to do with objective reality in those locations. Who knew?
Obviously, there is still a federal income tax, but that was not what the question was asking about.
I, personally, think that there is some sort of lesson to be learned here, but I am not at all sure what it might be right now. Mostly, I am chuckling, and using this as a metric for explaining why I do not take a certain category of complaints at all seriously.
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Date: 2019-05-11 05:49 pm (UTC)Housing costs in Seattle are pretty insane
Date: 2019-05-11 08:04 pm (UTC)It seems to be getting worse a little more slowly, which is probably some form of progress, altho it really does not seem like it.
The march of high(er) rise multi family out into city neighborhoods really ought, over time, to add enough supply to fix the problem properly.