How did you wrap your mind around 20-30k property taxes?

Even if you can afford the house and the 20-30k in property taxes, it's just insane to me to think of giving up 20-30k in property taxes yearly forever. I'm not sure I want to do that on principle alone. I'm guessing everyone doing this is doing it because they feel they have to? For a good neighborhood, for the kids, or to appease the spouse? By the way, do most of you who have 20-30k in property taxes have dual income of 500k+ due to RSU's?