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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister lived in Texas in a similar house to what we have.  While the tax rate on her house was higher the values were lower due to it being a LCOL area so we still pay more in property tax than her plus income tax.  Obviously, if you're downtown Houston with high property values you're going to get clobbered on property taxes.

I'm not sure what people here mean by services. [b] They seem to have parks and stuff like we have out here.[/b]  I think all the museums we have here are a DC-type thing, probably not going to find that in many places.[/quote]

Many places in Texas have stopped building city parks and the gap is filled by "neighborhood" parks run by HOAs.  That cop that did a fancy little roll off the car hood before tackling the 14 year old girl in a bathing suit?  Superhero dedicated to protecting the interests of racists at an HOA pool.  Privatizing public services instead of funding them is often spurred by racism and classism, and then further entrenches both.  I grew up in Texas.  I know exactly what people mean by services: we had none.  [/quote]

I have no idea where you lived, but I also grew up in Texas, and the cities in Texas and Florida that I am familiar with have beautiful municipal parks and facilities that put anything in the DC area that isn’t run by the National Park Service to shame. I’ve gone to playgrounds and little league games in these states with relatives who live in pretty standard middle class suburbs and the facilities are amazing. 1,000x better than the crappy, weed infested fields my DC played in in the DC suburbs (and no, they weren’t “HOA” facilities). [/quote]

D/FW.  The pools are all HOA, without exception.  Most neighborhood parks built after 1995 are HOA.  I don't know kids that play little league but little kid soccer and basketball games are largely played not on municipal courts, but rather private facilities (Game On, Lifetime Sports, D1, Sportsplex, to name a very very few) that the league pays to use.  Football is a mix.[/quote]

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