Contour Enthusiasts Group Archives Forums General Common Interests I have something to say

Did someone put a gun to your head and make you buy a home that has taxes that high? Furthermore if you can afford a home that costs that much why are you whining about taxes in the first place. Education costs money, someone forcing you to go to school? Go work a BK or MC D's, Hydro Heat Water through the roof, Buy Candles, Get sweaters, Use less water.
I think you should move to Mexico, your sorry whining ass would be happier there, but I guess going back to Dad's will work, Hey maybe you can get on Mom's tit again save you some food money!
GROW UP!

Erm, I don't really get it. Your property taxes are at the municipal level, if they're too high I'd look into moving cities not countries. Is the value assessment of your house too high or the actual tax rate too high? If your assessment is overvalued compared to the market value you can request arbitration. We just cut our property tax in half because the assessments are so ridiculously high, all it took was a request for arbitration and then they call you before the hearing to talk you out of it, we had the value reassessed more realistically. It helps to have knowledge and proof of similar properties and what they've been selling for over say the past 6 months.

Maybe my view is skewed because the time I spent in the US I was living in Cali, but I didn't see that big of a tax difference from Canada. And Canada allows you to renounce your primary residency, move/work in another country and pay the local taxes instead of paying Canadian taxes (can't do that in the US). I guess if you want to make the move to the US and HAVE the luxury of making that choice, all the power to you. I recently had to choose between continuing my schooling in Canada or the US (US, I'd actually be living at home being in a border town) and professionally I wanted to go to the US, but there were just too many hurdles with not having a Green card and not wanting to deal with the uncertainty of being on student visas for 4 years then training visas for another 5 years. BTW, my tuition is ~$15k CAD per year vs $40k US, but that's what you pay as an international student at a US school.

There are a lot of reasons to move to the US, the business environment is certainly more favourable than here..in terms of taxation (in certain states) and just being able to get loans because you're not restricted to 3 or 4 banks. But a lot of the issues you cite are not that unique to Canada.

Move to Calgary, its the best city in the country in the most prosperous province in the country. We make more money than anyone else and we dont have PST. GO ALBERTA!!!

Just means government finds more creative ways to steal for you so it can flush money down the toilet.

I thought $2400 a year was bad on my townhome because the copulating school district pity-partied two referendums through totalling a 25% increase! Don't get me started on the waste of our money otherwise known as public education... Jesse Ventura was right... it's a black hole.

I really think you need to just stop bashing both your home countries on these boards. Too many contradictions looking through your past posts. One day you hate the States and wouldn't live there if your life depended on it, the next day you 'just' hate the President, and now you hate Canada and its PM and are moving to the States to get away.