@notrichenough Don’t BU, Harvard et al create a ton of well paying jobs and those people pay income tax, property tax on their homes, and in turn create lots of jobs supporting the universities? And businesses that want to be near them and they pay property tax, etc? I’d think Boston would prefer to keep the universities, on balance, than have them locate elsewhere, property tax or not.
Guessing @emilybee 's Albany example is similar…I’d guess Albany isn’t eager to have the capital move to another city and take all the jobs with it, despite the property tax situation.