Living in Belleville, IL
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6/3/2010
If you can avoid this place, by all means find another city to live in. The city, against the people, voted to override the unpopularity of a tax that requires residents to pay $20.00 per registered vehicle as well as $99.00 or more to register their vehicle. Property taxes continue to rise at an alarming rate while property resale value has plummented leaving the homeowner to exhaustingly navigate through the bureaucracy and provide the burden of proof to reduce their property tax bill with average costs of home being over $93,000.00 for a very modest sized home with just enough land for it to be erected, there are better choices. The cities unemployment is a stagering 10.10% as of April 2010. This supports the reduction in population. The population as of July 2008 was over 41,000, since 2000 it has increased -0.8%. In keeping with Illinois tradition this city has committed similiar governmental atrocities with the people of the city to pay for it. Belleville is not all bad, there are alot of places to visit and things to do but you can do all of this as a visitor from another city.
Lawrence | Belleville, IL