sdr: Interesting you say that UT has more gov’t employees per capita than CA, since CA ranks 8th in state taxes per capita ($4,424) and UT ranks 37th (2,543)–I googled state taxes per capita. I guess we pay our government employees less.
This ignores local taxes, and CA has that great Prop 13, right? The property taxes on my house are a little over 1/2% of value.
Regarding housing appreciation rates, I googled “US State Home Price Appreciation”, and Utah came in 2d in the nation at 27.05% as of end of 2021 (AZ was 1st). CA came in at 16th with 19.62%. SD undoubtedly came in better than the state average. By the same token, St. George is doing better than the state average. We are getting an influx of people from the Salt Lake City area. Some come for the weather (!), and reportedly SLC has air pollution and a homeless problem.
