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Billy Joel’s mansion MiddleSea; David L. Pokress\/Newsday RM via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Billy Joel<\/strong>‘s Long Island mansion, nicknamed MiddleSea, is on the market for just under $50 million. But one reason why the Piano Man says he’s unloading the 26-acre property is because he feels the real estate taxes are just too high.<\/p>\n

While Billy is a millionaire many, many times over, he tells the <\/em>New York Times<\/strong><\/em><\/a>\u00a0that the yearly tax bill \u2014 $567,686 \u2014 is too much for him to swallow. “It\u2019s not cheap, let\u2019s put it that way,\u201d he said. \u201cAs successful, I\u2019ve been financially, yeah, that\u2019s, you know, that\u2019s a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The other reason Billy is selling is because he’s decided to move his home base to Florida, where his daughters, 7 and 9, are now enrolled in school \u2014 which means, Billy says, he’s “kind of locked in.”<\/p>\n

But Billy can’t help but marvel at the fact that he ever bought MiddleSea in the first place. That’s because as a teenager, Billy had a job dredging oysters on the Long Island Sound. While out on the water, he used to see a huge brick mansion and think to himself, “Rich b*******. I\u2019ll never live in a house like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then, in 2002, he bought it.<\/p>\n

“The word that applies is \u2018absurd,\u2019” Billy tells the Times. “I grew up in a quarter-acre lot house in Hicksville [on Long Island]. And I would ride my bicycle up here and take a bike ride and look at all the rich people and cuss them out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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