I moved out of the US after the “be afraid” attitude got too crazy after 9/11. Other factors were no ability to obtain Health Insurance after my day-job went away (I am self-employed), and I strongly disagree with Bush’s policies towards other countries. I’d like to return to the US and am hoping Obama gets elected and some sort of option for Health Insurance is made available.
I also disagree that I should have to pay US taxes when I am not living there, but that’s a battle I’ll never win.
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I moved out of the US after the “be afraid” attitude got too crazy after 9/11. Other factors were no ability to obtain Health Insurance after my day-job went away (I am self-employed), and I strongly disagree with Bush’s policies towards other countries. I’d like to return to the US and am hoping Obama gets elected and some sort of option for Health Insurance is made available.
I also disagree that I should have to pay US taxes when I am not living there, but that’s a battle I’ll never win.
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Ok, you left the country, you win!
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Probably, but in MO is wasn’t so much the money as it was the huge pain in the ass. When it came time to renew my vehicle’s registration, I had to drive to the county courthouse, wait in line, and then wait for the person behind the counter to determine how much my vehicle was worth and compute the taxes based on that. You never knew beforehand - so I would have to take a pocket full of money and I hope I had enough - or it was back home to get more. Once I got my receipt that the taxes were paid, then I had to get the vehicle inspected, and if it needed any repairs, it didn’t pass - so more money. Once the personal property tax and the inspection were done, then and only then could I go back to the DMV, wait in another line, pay another fee, and get my new sticker..
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Missouri isn’t perfect, but I’ve lived in a few different Missouri counties and I’ve NEVER had to go through all that rigamarole to pay my personal property taxes on my vehicles. Nor has anyone else I know. I have no idea why it happened to you. But for over 35 years, I’ve gotten a bill in the mail for my taxes and paid them by mail with a check. (Actually, I think you can do it online these days, but I’m an old fuddy-duddy.)
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Missouri isn’t perfect, but I’ve lived in a few different Missouri counties and I’ve NEVER had to go through all that rigamarole to pay my personal property taxes on my vehicles. Nor has anyone else I know. I have no idea why it happened to you. But for over 35 years, I’ve gotten a bill in the mail for my taxes and paid them by mail with a check. (Actually, I think you can do it online these days, but I’m an old fuddy-duddy.)
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I was in Jasper and Newton counties between 1995-1999.
I knew someone that was a racist and believed in the skin head movement. About 10 years ago he decided that his neighborhood had gotten to “dark” so he decided to move to northern Idaho, his thinking is that he would be more accepted there. He found out that Idaho had a larger percentage of folks that did not think his way than the Seattle/Tacoma area. Last I heard he was living in Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Not us - but we live in Virginia, which has a pretty major anti-gay law on the books:
The Washington Post did an article on a couple who moved out of state after this was passed (they had been together for 20+ years and had deep roots in their town). The two women across the street from our house moved not long after that, also (I don’t know for sure that they were in a gay relationship, as it was none of my business, but it seemed a reasonable assumption). I imagine there were many others.
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I used to live in Minneapolis, but after I learned that ferrets were illegal there I moved to an adjoining suburb when my lease was up.
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I don’t know who told you that, but they were quite wrong.
Ferrets are required to be licensed in Minneapolis, just like dogs, cats, rabbits, etc., but certainly not illegal. Cost is $25 ($15 if neutered).
I met a lesbian this weekend who is leaving Michigan because the republican Attorney General has decided that an anti-gay marriage law passed there means that her employer can no longer offer them family medical benefits for her spouse and their children.
So she found a position here in Minneapolis that is actually lower-pay, but DOES offer family medical coverage.
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A friend of mine recently moved to a rural home a fair distance from city limits, because the city has declared that you can’t own more than two dogs within the city limits. Staying there meant they’d have to euthanize or otherwise dispose of one of their three beloved pooches (do you pick the old guy, or the puppy to axe?), so in protest… they sold their house and moved out of town.
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Those laws are *very *rarely enforced against dudes who just have a few dogs who aren’t causing complaints. I’d have waiting until they were making dire threats.
In my case, my gun nut buddy moved from CA to NV becuase of the gun laws.
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I don’t know who told you that, but they were quite wrong.
Ferrets are required to be licensed in Minneapolis, just like dogs, cats, rabbits, etc., but certainly not illegal. Cost is $25 ($15 if neutered).
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Argh, I thought back about it again, and they weren’t explicitly illegal but effectively so. This was many years ago. At the time I asked the personnel at Animal Control there about ferrets. I don’t know that they used the word “illegal” but either “not allowed” or “not welcome” was used. IIRC the given reason was their not accepting the effectiveness of the rabies vaccine in ferrets. Everything ferret-related that I read at the time emphasized the “not welcome in Mpls” thing when it discussed places that they were explicitly outlawed or “outlawed” via bureaucratic preference.
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Those laws are *very *rarely enforced against dudes who just have a few dogs who aren’t causing complaints. I’d have waiting until they were making dire threats.
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She was aware of that, but it was the principle of the thing, I guess.
I don’t own a pit bull, but my business logo is a breed that looks very much like one, and I refuse to do business in a city or state with anti-pit bull (or otherwise breed-specific) legislation. The laws themselves won’t affect me, but it’s the principle of the thing.
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I don’t know of any cases that are THAT clearcut, but I do have one American friend who is strongly libertarian who now lives in Australia and has his own vineyard. I knew him earlier when he lived in Indonesia, and he always swore he’d never go back to the US (although as a US citizen he still is on the hook for taxes, so it doesn’t help his tax situation as much as it simply lets him stand on principle). Since his wife is Australian and they are both wine lovers, a lot of factors besides disliking US tax policy went into the decision to become Australian winemakers, I’m sure. Also, I don’t know anything about Australian tax law but I’m guessing he is just as unhappy with that as he was with the US.
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Not quite a law situation, but a colleague of mine moved from CA to Scotland with his wife and their dogs after Bush got re-elected. He had sworn that he would move if that happened, and he actually did.
I chose to live in Jersey rather than Pennsylvania because my same-sex relationship is frickin’ legal.