[Michael 61]

Just received my first tax bill, as a soon-to-be one year resident next month.

School Tax is high - in doing my research of 55+ communities to retire to in the US - the one advantage that Sun City and Sun City West Arizona have is that they are in no school district - so their property taxes are considerably lower than other retirement communities. I read that the reason why the neighboring school districts allowed this for Sun City/Sun City West, is that the school boards feared that all school tax initiatives would be voted down when they appeared on the ballot, since most older folks would not be in favor of increasing school taxes. But that is a two-sided coin, they also miss out on any tax revenue as well.