Screw Louisville

You've got to be freaking kidding me. Louisville.................Louisville? Seriously, who in the hell wants to move to Louisville or even Indiana across the river. Have you ever lived there? I have and I would much rather live in Central Indiana or points a little to the north or maybe down around Bloomington, Columbus, Seymour than anywhere down around Louisville. Louisville sucks!

Hell, the Amazon down in Jeffersonville, IN (Louisville Metro) pays about 3 dollars an hour less than they do in Indianapolis. Same goes for about any other job as well unless you're a highly trained specialist or a professional. Screw Louisville.

Plus if you live in Kentucky you pay higher taxes than what you do in Indianapolis or anywhere in Indiana for that matter. You even pay taxes in Kentucky if you live in Indiana and work in Kentucky. They take it out of your pocket in a commuter tax and its very difficult to get your money back. I lived in Indiana for years before I got married, got a job in, and lived in Kentucky. Made about 40k a year on my job at the time. Then turned around and figured out that by living in Louisville (Jefferson County, KY) I would be paying an extra 1200 dollars in local and state income taxes by living in Kentucky. Screw that because Louisville is just as bad or worse than inner city Indianapolis when it comes to crime. Especially anywhere on the western 60 percent of the county. Its a big running rathole with crime everywhere, shitty jobs, and lousy schools. Why in the hell would I want to live there. I lived in the better part and another thing was that my kid would have had to go to school ten to fifteen miles from where we lived just for goddamn elementary school.

All because a bunch of ultra liberal social engineering Marxists believed that integrating the schools and kids was the thing to do no matter what kind of neighborhood you lived in. You could live in a 98 percent white area and then have your kids bussed across county to a 90 percent black school. Or vice versa. Its crazy as hell.

By moving back to Indiana, getting a job a little bit above in pay range than my previous, I made a profit from leaving Kentucky. That extra couple thousand dollars in money instead of being taxed to death helps too.

Louisville, Kentucky has the 4th highest taxes of any city in the nation, higher than anywhere except for three other urban liberal enclaves. No thank you. If I stayed in KY, made 40k a year I would have been paying almost 3200 in taxes to state and local government. In Indiana, its more like 2000 dollars so that's a 1200 dollar savings.

Not to mention Louisville's infrastructure is majorly flawed because of the pothole filled roads everywhere not just well traveled areas or old side streets but even in the middle of major highways. Dixie Hwy in SW Louisville is a dump, the roads are lumpy and your car or truck shakes like hell hitting every chuckhole or bumped up place in the road it sounds like a device they use to slow people down.

Here's the breakdown on taxes in KY

State Income Tax

$8000-$75,000 5.8 percent

$75,000 and over 6.0 percent

Louisville Jefferson County Taxes

1.5 percent occupational tax

.75 percent school tax

Add in whatever your property taxes are generally between 500 to 2500 dollars depending on your local town. Plus they have so many other taxing districts in Louisville. Not just Louisville Metro but also all the little cities and suburbs that used to have their own taxes and kept them in place despite becoming part of the bigger city in 2003.

You're getting screwed by living in Louisville. Don't do it.