Bill’s Point of View:
By Bill Cleary
It is upsetting to think that you work all your life to pay off your 30-year home mortgage and after it is paid you still have to fork out thousands to the government to live in your home. Residing in a state that has the highest property taxes in the nation doesn’t help I know. I asked one of many friends who moved from NJ to the other side of the river how much he pays in property and school taxes.
Bill Y. writes \”Our house is located in Kent County Delaware and it is zoned agricultural, but even the homes that are not zoned agricultural still have reasonable taxes. Our house has two bedrooms, 1-1/2 baths, living room, dining room, den, kitchen, open front porch and enclosed rear porch. It is situated on 11.5 acres and we own to the middle of a creek, called Fisherman\’s creek. Our taxes are $515 per year which includes a school tax. In Delaware when you reach the age of 65 years the school tax we pay gets cut in half. In the nearby town residents living on a single lot with a bungalow pay around $650 a year that number includes the school taxes. Delaware has no sales tax but we pay a higher tax on our gasoline.\”
Bill Y. is a former resident of Gloucester City.
And then we have the Gloucester City resident who is happy her school
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