When I bought my place 35+ years ago, the annual property tax was less than a month's worth of groceries, back then. The town merged with a public school in a richer town, before that it was school choice if you were willing to drive your kid to another town. With that merger, which I voted against btw, the property tax quadrupled. The majority of votes were so they could be on the school board, but once their kids aged out, they did not care and the rest of us were left with this damn high bill every year. Now the talk is closing that school because there are no kids from this area to keep it open. I guess my money goes to maintaining the dirt roads and the snow plowing now. I cut trees down to have a view, put on a new roof, and they were raised again. I want to put up a small camper on a space I have down away from the house, a nice flat site surrounded by woods, but you can be sure it will be off the road and not seen, to avoid the Listers.