The prices are low -because- the taxes are high. People can only spend $X for housing. When taxes take all the money, the house prices cannot rise like they do elsewhere. Look around the country; you'll see that this is the way it works. Payments include tax. Your payment could be mostly tax or it could be mostly house; either one or the other.

because our town is 1.1 sq miles, so that all the houese have to bear the brunt of all the services, such as dpw garbage, fire ambulance , any services has an impact on such a small community, if we lets say abolished the erpd, and let the mc sheriffs take over, we would then have to pay th emc sheriffs for service vrs our own pd. thats the truth we are the highest in ny i believe its 50 dollasr per 1000 at the momemnt