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Old 12-23-2007, 08:38 PM
 
Location: Great State of Texas
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School taxes are part of your property taxes. I haven't heard of having to write 2 checks though. Your tax bill is made up of several "groups" that collect taxes..the ISD being one of them. Who gets to tax you though is very dependent on where you live, inside the city limits, outside in the county and which ISD you live in.
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Old 12-23-2007, 10:16 PM
 
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I think if you have a situation where you live in Travis county, for example, but the school district is say LISD (Williamson County), you can get 2 different bills. Sometimes the MUD tax bill might be seperate, too (it is in my case.) Shows up on the yearly "estimated taxes" document early in the year, but comes as a different bill. So, I think there are cases where you could get 3 different bills... they all add up to the typical 2.5-3%, so it isn't like you are paying more than someone getting only 1 consolidated bill.
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Old 12-23-2007, 11:57 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Poor housing market in NE Ohio - it's been over a year and we still haven't sold our house there.
I feel for you. We did sell ours, but made nothing. The victory was in selling.

My list:

1.)Poor pedestrian infrastructure. I knew that Austin wasn't NYC, but I did(and do) expect much more from a city that talks itself up as being progressive and green. In this aspect, it's second rate at best. Some areas(downtown and newer developments) are well designed, but if you like to walk around neighborhoods with your dog, look out and be prepared to walk in the street a lot. I've almost been hit three times since I've been here

2.)Libraries. I guess we were spoiled, but I'm finding the libraries here to be pretty average and dreary, especially the downtown branch. It's adequate, but uninspiring. Libraries should be beautiful, inspiring and important community focal points.

3.)Italian food. There just isn't much here and I miss it sometimes. There are a few places but you kind of have to dig to find them. If you're coming from the North/East Coast, be prepared. I'm not talking about 5-star restaurants, just a mom & pop place(not a pizza parlor) to get some decent eggplant parmesan

4.)Drivers. I heard a lot about how bad the drivers were here in Texas, but I have to admit, I thought some of it might be hyperbole. It's not. There seems to be a pervasive characteristic of acute reckless driving in this state(not just Austin). I've seen drivers like that everywhere in this country but never to this extent. There are actually signs on I35 that encourage folks to report reckless drivers. It's kind of scary actually. A lot of irreverence towards traffic laws. And this is coming from someone who's been in more than a dozen accidents The latest one, when my wife and I were here looking for an apartment last July:

https://www.city-data.com/forum/austi...me-austin.html


Anyway, we would still move here. No place is perfect and I think many of these problems will be addressed over time...although I don't know what can be done about the drivers.
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Old 12-24-2007, 09:28 AM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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Everyone pays school taxes. My husbands BIL was just griping about that this weekend. They moved back to Texas from California last year, and their kids are out of school now, and he said he doesnt understand having to still pay school taxes without school aged kids.
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Old 12-24-2007, 10:20 AM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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and their kids are out of school now, and he said he doesnt understand having to still pay school taxes without school aged kids.
I don't have kids and never will(I shouldn't say that). But I don't mind paying for schools a bit, as long as the money is properly utilized(another conversation completely). It's an investment in the community. If your schools suck, your city sucks. If your cities suck, your country sucks, if your country sucks...well you get it
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Old 12-24-2007, 10:40 AM
 
Location: Slaughter Creek, Travis County
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Ditto Twange. I look at paying AISD taxes as my contribution to the education of the children who will take our collective places in society as we get older and eventually pass on.

I remember several years ago when AISD was going through school board administrators on a 1-2 year cycle. Dr. Forgione has really done a good job of pulling AISD together and is a good administrator.
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Old 12-24-2007, 11:52 AM
 
Location: SoCal
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I don't have kids either but I don't mind paying school taxes, either. Those kids are the future and I would like them to be as well edumacated as possible!

I just thought there was some totally separate tax from the 2%-3% that you guys were talking about. I think it's odd that it comes from property taxes, though. Shouldn't everyone have to pay it (renting or home-owning)? Shouldn't it be a state tax?
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Old 12-24-2007, 12:40 PM
 
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I don't have kids and never will(I shouldn't say that). But I don't mind paying for schools a bit, as long as the money is properly utilized(another conversation completely). It's an investment in the community. If your schools suck, your city sucks. If your cities suck, your country sucks, if your country sucks...well you get it
Good thing you moved to Austin and not Houston with that attitude. I believe it was a Houston State Rep that said public schools were a communist idea straight from the pit of hell.
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Old 12-24-2007, 02:32 PM
 
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4.)Drivers. I heard a lot about how bad the drivers were here in Texas, but I have to admit, I thought some of it might be hyperbole. It's not. There seems to be a pervasive characteristic of acute reckless driving in this state(not just Austin). I've seen drivers like that everywhere in this country but never to this extent. There are actually signs on I35 that encourage folks to report reckless drivers. It's kind of scary actually. A lot of irreverence towards traffic laws. And this is coming from someone who's been in more than a dozen accidents The latest one, when my wife and I were here looking for an apartment last July:

https://www.city-data.com/forum/austi...me-austin.html
yeah... I noticed that too... reckless driving, especially on the freeways. I'm kinda amazed though that the driver who rear-ended you didn't get a ticket. That's usually automatic. They obviously weren't paying attention and/or following too closely. Hopefully their insurance paid for it...?
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Old 12-24-2007, 03:25 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Good thing you moved to Austin and not Houston with that attitude. I believe it was a Houston State Rep that said public schools were a communist idea straight from the pit of hell.
Yea, that and police, fire department, libraries...all pinko-commie stuff

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yeah... I noticed that too... reckless driving, especially on the freeways. I'm kinda amazed though that the driver who rear-ended you didn't get a ticket. That's usually automatic. They obviously weren't paying attention and/or following too closely. Hopefully their insurance paid for it...?
The cop seemed fairly disinterested but he was helpful. The guys insurance did pay for it but it still wasn't fixed when we got here in September. Her uncle really had to sort through a bunch of crap. We still feel bad about that one...we're on the list for a lot of favors
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