SonOfMcGee

Have you heard about the housing development outside Scottsdale, Arizona that was slyly built off the water grid to avoid municipal taxes, yet they just buy trucks of water from the city to fill up personal tanks, and now that the city decided not to sell their tap water to anyone the development is shit out of luck?
Is there anything you can think of think of that you are off the grid for, yet nonetheless dependent on a grid somewhere for?

If this AMA were a color it would be beige.

I read one Dan Brown book and loved it. Read a second and thought, “This is a lot like the other one but... it’s still fun!” Read a third and about halfway through I just sort of went, “Oh fuck you Dan!”

I think the point is that the housing developments were technically unincorporated such that they didn’t pay any tax to the city at all, property or otherwise. And the biggest consequence was not being on the city water grid (in a damn desert where you can’t easily dig a well).
Very much a have your cake and eat it too situation, as they tried to live like a suburb of the city without technically being part of it.

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