Places with low taxes usually are shitholes that no one wants to live in… and if a place has high taxes but are a run by an authoritarian who does nothing but keep it for themselves, they are also usually a shithole… but one they can “buy” good graces from and so they’ll usually hang there some if they also can have a home somewhere else in case they lose favor with that authoritarian… so it’s pretty much always a bluff it seems.