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Economics of Short Term Tractor Purchase
I have put a link on this post that will take you to some information about taxes in various states. It makes perfect sense to want to move to a state that uses your tax money in an efficient manner.
Nobody likes to pay taxes, but it is necessary. The difference in these costs is often a reflection of what the politicians have done with the money that they get from us. You have to be careful not to focus in on a single item like income tax. States and politicians have a way of getting their projects funded whether it is by property taxes, sales taxes, fees or other means.
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With respect to your rephrased question about whether it is financially sound to get a tractor for 2-3 years...Let me turn that around for the other perspective.
Can you afford not to have the tractor for two or three years? You can hire out heavy jobs...You can "break your back" doing tough chores...You can work you butt off and not see progress...
Since I have had my CUT, my back feels better, I get things done faster, and I have NO regrets about the purchase. In fact, I moved off of a farm decades ago and did not have a tractor. I got things done. (I think that I reinvented many of the techniques used by the pyramid builders ;-}) There were weekends when I would spend time laid up with a sore back or injured shoulder. Now, if I have heavy work to do, my first instinct is to get the tractor to do the work.
You can buy a used tractor as suggested. You can transport a CUT easily with an automobile hauling trailer. It is not difficult to transport a tractor several hundred miles, so you do not need to limit your search to the local neighborhood. A compact tractor can genuinely make your retirement years more enjoyable and more healthy.
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Dennis, I have been in NJ in the summer and I can't imagine NC being that much worse. My wife grew up around Atlanta and it is hotter and just as humid there in GA, but further north is should be OK.
I like the desert. The humidity here now is about 20%.
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Sedona is in Arizona and is very expensive. If you are thinking about Sante Fe NM you might as well move to California. I doubt if there are any tractor dealers in Sedona and I know that there aren'e any in Santa Fe.  I actually prefer Flagstaff a few miles north of Sedona.
There are lots of trees and plenty of shade in Flagstaff. I live between Albuquerque and Santa Fe NM.
re:Sun. The sun here is brutal, but since the humidity is low, you can wear long sleeves to protect from it. Sunblock is also pretty effective. The large brim western hats also have a real purpose, although I have not figured out what to do with the sharp pointed toes on the boots since most beer cans now come with pop tops. Since the humidity is so low, you can dehydrate pretty quickly, so I carry water in the H2 at all times. The normal sun is a lot like the sun that you get at a ski resort, so you have to be careful. The altitude at my house is 5300 ft and in Santa Fe it is over 7000, so the air is thin.
I grew up on a 1000 acre farm in Central Missouri. I became and engineer and have lived near Chicago and in Southern California before settling in New Mexico in 1998.
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Flagstaff is the closest to where I live, with the major influence being the altitude. Phoenix and El Paso are both much lower in elevation and much hotter.
I live in the desert with sage brush and a few trees. That is what I like. The Rio Grande flows right through the center of Albuquerque and near Santa Fe. Trees grow up around the river and it is heavily irrigated with ancient irrigation canals for flooding the land. I don't like living in the irrigated area because I don't like the humidity or mosquitoes. My place is in the foothills a few hundred feet higher than Albuquerque, so we see the city lights in the distance at night.
Flagstaff has a lot of trees and is a mountain town with a ski resort. It looks like a lot of other mountain towns but has I-40 running through it. It is between 7000 and 9000 ft. (not exactly sure) It is quite similar to Durango and other towns in Southern Colorado.
The desert area around Las Vegas looks similar to where I live, but since the altitude is so much higher here, it generally only gets to about 95 in the summer and goes down to about 20 in the winter. There are also some trees that will grow naturally here. We don't always get snow in the winter. The humidity runs between 20% and 40% most times. We don't get much rain. 12 inches is a big year. We have only had 4 inches of rain so far this year.
I like the desert for a lot of reasons. Quiet is one of them, but I don't want to be anywhere near a homeowner's association, city council, or other direct controlling authority over my liberty. The desert also has a subtle beauty but you have to slow down to enjoy it. But, if I need a part for the tractor, I can be in ABQ is about a half hour.
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My problem with these zoning and homeowners boards is that they all get on the board with an agenda. For example I lived in one place where one board member decided that some of the houses looked shabby and needed to be painted. Out of 1000 houses in the association, they issued "Paint Orders" to 500 of us. You could not get a painter for months.
I moved out of my last house because of the neighbors and the local government. I put up a small amateur radio antenna to do backup emergency communications for the Search and Rescue groups as well as the local governments. In this capacity I am a volunteer for FEMA. The local zoning board said "We love the work that you guys do, but we don't want you to put up an antenna." I lowered the antenna about five feet to meet their 26 ft maximum height and they still kept bothering me, but they could not do anything because I met the letter of the law. This was lower than trees, power poles and other things in the area. But when a neighbor started complaining about the same antenna and the board could do nothing about it, she decided that she would start stacking horse manure on her property directly across from my front door. That was in violation of the law, but the local government would do nothing about it.
When I moved to my new place, I got the permits for the antenna before I even closed escrow on the house. But, what you get on these boards are people with agendas for "no development", improve the neighborhood, change my zoning, crucify my neighbor for his transgressions, and on and on.
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After you have fun doing something with the tractor, it is useful to splash a little water and dust on your face and clothing. Follow that up by collapsing into a comfortable chair and having a cold beer. If you can manage a nap after using the tractor the effect would be complete.
Disclosing these techniques to non CUT users is punishable by having to share your tractor and increasing the size of your "honey do" list.
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