But is that directly attributable to immigrants and nationality (and I'm talking legal ones right now) or are there other factors at work?
A lot of people are leaving the more expensive parts of the country to find something more affordable. That raises demand and pricing in the new region. To meet demand, builders overdevelop - another problem.
Looks like Austin home prices and taxes are similar to here. Maybe the home prices are just a little less. Rates went up here with people moving from NYC. Still lower in South Jersey. Property taxes - Texas doesn't have state income tax, does it? That would explain the property taxes. Here we have both. Property taxes are a disaster because what we pay in state tax doesn't come back proportionately to the individual town school systems. The bulk of it goes to abbot school districts (which haven't shown performance to justify it) So most of our property taxes are school - about 65% here. (We do have very good schools, BUT ...)
We don’t have state tax here, yet. Although that could be coming.
All throughout my life Texas had always been a place where you didn’t have to have a high paying job to live, apartment rent was very very reasonable, food pricing and gas very reasonable, so a person could actually work a low wage job and still be able to afford the necessities.
I remember the days of people from other states making fun of Texas and not wanting to move here, when I was a kid I remember when the steel unions in Pennsylvania layed off workers they would cone here , but leave and go back to Pennsylvania once the steel work picked up again.
It isn’t the Mexican Americans that are a problem at all here, they have been here in large numbers since I was around 16 years old. They are good people and great contributors to the state.
The illegals on the hand are a problem and have been for 30 years here, we have day labor stations all over Texas, the illegal Mexicans that are here , and have been hired on by companies do not have social security card of course , so they pay no taxes, these companies hire them knowing they are here illegally.
I am not saying these illegal Mexican people here are bad people by any means, but they are here illegally none the less.
Local, State nor federal law enforcement have ever done anything to stop the illegal Mexicans here from being able to live here. So there has been no law enforcement of illegal Mexicans being here in the state of Texas. They are also protected by such organizations as LuLac here.
Now on the flip side, the eastern Indians, Russians, Iranians, Africans and ect who are here legally on work visas and ect visas are here in very large numbers. Some work as simple jobs as convenient stores and ect, not skilled jobs is what I am saying I guess. So why are they here?? Why would the US government extend these people work visas for that? They shouldn’t have and shouldn’t be extending them work visas IMO.
These people go back to India, Russia, Africa at will, return back to the US.
How awesome is that! They can come over here, use our resources, take jobs from Americans, and come and go as they please. And they do cone and go quite a lot. I know a man from India that goes back to India three times a year, comes back to Texas to do his janitor job.
Why do I see all this as a problem??
Because the American tax payer is paying for these people to have such a choice as to pick and choose. It’s all on our dime.
A solution, pay me, if our country is going to allow this, every American should receive monthly retribution, that being raise these peoples taxes to approx 14% so they can carry on such a life style. Pay me.
Sound shitty for me to ask for a monthly check in exchange?? I don’t think so at all, these people are using the hell out of America’s resources, they fuck up my flow at times as I am sure they do so many other Americans. So pay that high tax rate to make sure the American people are accommodated for their troubles.
If they raised their taxes to do such a thing they would leave with the quickness, that saying they didn’t love America near as much as we might think.
Barring they have the money, it is easy and convenient for these people to attain a visa in the US, they can even let the visa expire and stay in the US without consequences, the free for all bullshit needs to stop, the law enforcement on every level needs to enforce our immigration laws, for the good of America as well as for national security.