You could settle in Massachusetts or New Hampshire, where much local business in conducted in Town Meeting. If you want even more local governance (albeit less

You could settle in Massachusetts or New Hampshire, where much local business in conducted in Town Meeting. If you want even more local governance (albeit less competent governance), that settle somewhere HOA-encumbered. But if the aim is to pay little tax then come to Alabama! The natural lowtax experiment has been run in Alabama. The 1901 constitution was written by the wealthy industrialists and landowners with the express goal to disenfranchise black freedmen and white sharecroppers. The wealthy don't need local services paid through taxes, they can fund their own schools and other facilities and disregard the life of everyone else, so they made it very much impossible to raise local funds without going through the legislature in Montgomery, which they controlled. Now look at the shape of the state today. There is no decent infrastructure, education and roads are awful, no opportunity to profit from investment. Everyone who could leave left long ago.