I’d say that it’s extremely study not to pay taxes. With penalties and interest, it’s extremely difficult to invest the money have have better return.
Plus you get a tax lien that that might adversely affect your credit, you might have difficulty refinancing also. A title search will show that.
If people buy million dollar houses in Coronado and skip paying their property taxes, then I’d say that they are in financial trouble.
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A while back I had conversation with a friend who is a sociology professor. Happiness doesn’t happen in a vacuum but in relation to others. Like politics, it’s mostly local. We compare ourselves to our friends, family and neighbor and not to people in Africa who have nothing.
There’ve been many studies on this matter. Today, as a society, we’re not any happier than our grandparents although we have more.
The Buddhists would say that if you are happy and content despite others, then you’ve achieved a certain degree of enlightenment on you way to Nirvana.
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I agree, parent involvement is the best education a child can have.
In my view, the best private school in San Diego is the French-American School in La Jolla.
