WTF is going on with the Texas (R) Congress members retiring?

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15. I had some job opportunities in the Houston area back 2010-2013

Several opportunities came up and I ended up flying down there 3 times for 3 separate job interviews. One almost became a full offer, but then the company held off because the job could have potentially been outsourced a year later, even though it was a fairly high level job. But, twice I got to tour Houston suburbs for homes.

But, while they have no state income taxes, if you want a good suburban town/small city with good schools, you are going to be paying really hefty property taxes. The guidance that they had in the Sales Center for The Woodlands (a fairly upscale planned suburb of Houston with about 115,000 people) said that you could expect to pay about $15,000/year in property taxes on a new $500,000 home. Unless they did some major property tax reduction over the past several years, people in the suburbs of Dallas and Houston got nailed with those SALT limits. Towns like Katy and Sugar Land also had high property taxes.

Sugar Land was home to Tom DeLay for years, now the retiring Pete Olsen, who only won by 5 points against the Democrat in 2018, despite winning by 20 in 2016 and by over 30 in 2014.