Here is a comment under an article about a man moving from Naperville from Joe Jarmusz, a man who moved to Naperville in 1985 and retired to Michigan the month after he retired at the end of last year:
Why Illinois Native Moved to Michigan
I was born, raised, lived, married, raised a family, all my 65 years in the CROOKED STATE OF ILLINOIS!!!
Retired on 12/31/2017….AND MOVED OUT IN JANUARY of 2018!!!!!!
Last year (2017) our “Dream House” (of 2400+ feet) in Naperville came with a R.E. Tax bill of almost 8 GRAND!!!
Our INITIAL FIRST YEAR TAX BILL was only $1600!!!
THAT GREW AND GREW AND GREW EACH YEAR!!!!
Even in 2008/9 during the “Great Recession” as property values were declining our tax bill was raised!!!
I was able to get it reduced only to see it raised over the following two years…..CROOKS!!!!
EVEN AT THE MOST LOCAL OF LEVELS!!!!
We have moved into our “Retirement Home” ONLY A FEW HOURS AWAY FROM CHICAGO so we can still visit our kids/grandkids or attend a Bears or Sox game.
The house IS SMALLER….1600 vs. 2400 sq feet BUT HAS AN ACRE OF LAND AND THE PRETTIEST DAMN WOODS BEHIND US TO VIEW…HIKE AND EXPLORE!!!
R.E. Taxes???
$2000!!!!!’
$6000 LESS THAN NAPERVILLE!!!!
I LOVE CHICAGO!!!!
BUT THE ILLINOIS TAXES????
It will be “FUN” watching the State slowly slip into “Bankruptcy”!!!
I DO FEEL SORRY FOR ALL YOU THAT HAVE TO STAY BEHIND BUT IF YA DON’T…..
MOVE OUT NOW!!!!
Sorry pal, but no sunshine blog in Michigan. And that is worth all the property taxes in the world. Stay tuned…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock…
Hey, pal. Stay up in Michigan. We have troubles in Illinois; we don’t need your sorry butt here. Thanks for paying into Cal’s large pension for less than 25 years of “work”. Cal is one of the biggest hypocrites in Illinois; I’m sure that he will take the money and run.
By the way, you are no Bears fan Joe.
So sayeth the intellectually challenged buffoon named tom
and his cowardly culture Marxist buddy, ARL.
Congratulations and good luck Joe !
You made the right move and now you can live and sleep in peace.
We just purchased in South Carolina, going from 6K to 1K.
Here’s “tom”; https://travsd.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/tomthumb.jpg
Why us it Marxist to state the fact our sexual-assaulter-in-chief tronald dump shares his birthday with Ernesto Guevara de la Serna? A disgraceful coincidence for our glorious Che…tic, tock, tic, tock, tic, tock, meow, meow, meeeeeoooooowwwwwwwww…