Ours is ghastly and may be the worst yet in this thread, thanks to the hell that is mello-roos. Lessons learned...
$16,909.44. I think it started around 1.9% of our purchase price and has increased as much as it can with prop 13 every year. Our house is an outrageous almost 3700 square feet. "big" lot for the area, which means we have a nice pool, BBQ, grass area with playground, covered patio with seating, and a large bank behind the usable part of the yard. It is by no means a big property other than compared to the rest of our neighborhood.
We are NOT retiring in place, obviously. We have looked at downsizing in our area because I am SO over the giant clown house, purchased 3 years before we discovered MMM and were steadily inflating our lifestyle to go along with our rising income levels at the time. Unfortunately, there are massive bidding wars on everything in our area these days, and homes less than half the size are going for more than we paid in 2012. There's no way we could get 3.25% on a 30 year fixed right now (which is what we have currently). So, we will enjoy our 2 mile commute and nice neighborhood until we're reasonably able to relocate. We're stuck at least the next five years for various reasons.
Let us be the general lesson to NOT fall prey to lifestyle inflation...