Thread:PrinAnne/@comment-27012460-20160109055934/@comment-26571594-20160109231617

Anne, Illinois is broke. Our former governors are all in prison for fraud. The public schools are mostly struggling and many are closing and consolidating and state funding just keeps getting cut. We are super super super fortunate to live in a district who has had local old money donated to it in the tune of millions. Our kids all have laptops assigned to them and it's very technology driven. Our community owns their own power and water company which makes everything affordable. We live in a very rural area but still have to deal with the problems of those holes being in the state. Illinois just started to allow conceal carry and it's very difficult to even try to deal with some of the gun control here. We only pay about $700 a year on our land property taxes but do pay around 7-9% sales tax depending on wherever you go. I hear in Missouri you have to pay tax yearly on everything you own. That's not the case here. They've cut so much funding for special services my oldest son used because there's no money. He was really thriving with the help, but at $150/ hour for it, there's no way we can afford him going all the time. It messes with his routine to go infrequently so it's either all or none.

NB- where were you in IL? We are 80 miles east of the river off of 70.