30 year loan at 4% (not feasible today) means 115k in interest paid after putting 20% down. It would take way longer than 50 years to pay more in property taxes than interest.
Nothing moved. You gave me the 2% property tax from TX. The other person gave me the dorm in Atlanta. I gave you a real example where I will pay more in property tax than I will in interest. Property tax varies from state to state and won't be the same everywhere. I'm not sure why you're using yet another state, Alabama, for your example except to just cherry pick. But we're getting off track - $1200/yr perpetually is a lot of money for low income people.