Originally Posted by
GoodJet
Next you're going to tell me that the cheap housing has almost no traffic on the drive to SAN. The comical thing is that I owned a home in the SF Bay and dealt with prop 13. Sure it's better than what I am dealing with in WA but not by as much as you'd think. There are so many add ons to your property tax to pay for schools, open space etc. You can count on your property taxes going up every year. Sure it can't be adjusted to your home's value but it will go up. I'd encourage anyone to open up Zillow and check the housing prices anywhere remotely close to the airport and do some math. The rest of this post is just as false as what I've addressed. Other than the fact that most pilots at AS don't care that a lot of people will be displaced from their bases. Even though some were forced down to SFO on the last reduction bid. It's wild that the pilot group is cheering this on.
Nobody gets away with "paying for it" somehow. Everyone complains about CA tax, and I have my own issues with it, but property tax in many other "cheaper COL" states have higher property tax rates.
SAN is another expensive West Coast base that has cheaper surrounding suburbs. Its no different than SFO, PDX or SEA. There are tons of pilots who own 2 million+ homes in these domiciles and there are plenty of pilots who own 500k houses, a marginal drive away. There are 500k homes within a 45-minute drive from SFO. That is no different than SAN, SEA, and PDX.