You might want to look outside of the NE. Florida has 0% income tax, about 7% sales tax and in Miami-Dade we pay about 2.5% property tax. I pay $3.5K which includes garbage pick up. Not a bad deal overall.
We got the "Save our Homes" law which sort of locks your assessment in when you buy your house. The assessment can only go up by 3% or the rate of inflation, whichever is LOWER.