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Originally Posted by heavyhaulerss
I used to live in the Chicago area & have relatives all over Franklin park & other suburbs. I had to move from there. you can spend $300,000 on a home & the town council will tell you what you can or cannot park in your own driveway. along with all the other bureaucracy, makes ya feel like you dont have the freedom you thought you did. thats why I moved south. moving from Chicago - to AL. is like moving from Cuba to the U.S. I can park a bulldozer where I live now & I don't ask for any one's permmision..
I hear ya! I've been here all of my life and am sick of living here. Illinois, the counties, the suburbs and Chicago (and their out of control spending...and crooked politicians) trying to control everything you do and doing nothing for you. The solution to overspending and an $11B state deficit? Let's raise taxes on everything! Now, Governor Pat Quinn wants a 50% hike in state income tax, 8% state sale tax (already in place), $99 license plate renewals every year, 100% drivers license fee hike, etc. They just doubled the state tax on cigarettes to $2/pack this month and now he wants to raise it another $1/pack. That doesn't include the state sale tax. Local taxes...they charge you an "entertainment tax" to eat (on top of sales tax). I thought eating was a pretty basic need! What the hell is that? You have Richard Daley Capone auctioning off the city. Let's charge $7-10/pack of cigarettes, watch everyone go to suburbs to buy them, then complain we lost revenues from cigarettes taxes! People will start to avoid shopping in the city. Who wants to dump $3.50 into a parking meter every hour? Stupidity rules the stupid voters who allow this kind of action to transpire! You shouldn't have gotten me started...hahaha!
That's awesome that you live where you have that kind of freedom! I am ready to move to the south. First, I need to find a job and make some money though. Hopefully, I can find one here soon. Nobody seems to be hiring because of freight volumes here. I just borrowed money to get my hazmat and a passport. I don't know if that will help in my search but it will expand my qualifications and abilities. I lived in NC (between Asheville, Spartanburg and Charlotte) for a few months in 2006. I loved it there! You are absolutely right! The south is like a completely different country from here. You can make about as much money and it costs you a fraction to live your life. You can do it in a more suitable way, too.