I live in Honolulu, HI and every transplant from mainland America who moves here are complaining about the cost of living. Since there is limited land and a majority of the things we need and use are imported, everything is more expensive. However besides our income tax, sales tax and property taxes are really low. Sales tax is around 4.712% and our last property tax payment for 2011 was 3,700 dollars and our home is worth 1.2 Million dollars. I was planning to relocate to Seattle, WA. They have no state income tax and things are slightly cheaper but their sales tax and property taxes are really high. I heard sales tax in Seattle is around 9.5% and a home that is worth a little more than a million dollars was taxed 9,000+ dollars in 2011. Now Seattle is not the only places, many states in the mainland are like that.
@ Common Sense: I agree with Seattle and Texas but those are business friendly places and if I am able to own and operate my own business generating around 300-400k a year of net profits then It is worth it to live there because the state income tax in Hawaii is high.
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