Living in the village of Potsdam will cost you.

Residents there pay the highest effective property tax rate in the north country, according to a study.

Perhaps surprisingly, on a regional level, the Empire Center said that the north country had the third-lowest property tax burden of any region in the state, after the Capitol region and Long Island.

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