I live in the same area and agree with your complaints. You may have already accounted for this in your $10k figure, but keep in mind that because property tax

I live in the same area and agree with your complaints. You may have already accounted for this in your $10k figure, but keep in mind that because property taxes are pretty much the only funding for school districts in Texas a percentage of rich school district's budgets are recaptured for redistribution among poor school districts. I paid $3300 for the school district portion of my property taxes this year, and about $800 goes to the state (which I don't have a problem with for the record).