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Homless people are all over Albuquerque anywhere on Central and Downtown. They dont only ask, but demand you give them money. If you park your car to go in a restaurant, at least two individuals will want your money as you go in and two as you go out. They are drunk, stinky, and some are shirtless. They all will get close enough to touch you.
There are not many elgible single young people around inspite of UNM. And the few that are here leave in the Summer as there are no jobs and not much to do (except go hiking maybe, and it does get old believe me).
Many people have no class. Girls get yelled at in the street (this is on Central and Tulane) from driving cars: "bi**c, show my your bo**s"! This is yelling at classy well dressed ladies just minding their own business walking in a good part of town at 6 pm. This could be your mom or your sister. It is really upsetting.
Not many places to go to, even restaurants there is this one place on central with an italian name and red front and it serves over-cheeze-ified "pizza" or another place across the street with a lot of greesy food and encourages waitresses to wear skimpy clothes. People seem to love both places. There are coffee shops but did I mention the homeless people? Yes they go inside sometimes and ask you for money. A lot of hippies around too.
No culture here, Madstone, the independent movie theatre closed its doors a couple of years ago. Downtown on Saturday night has a very few clubs and all the same people (usually very young tatooed and periced) just club-hop around as the police stand by ready to break up the expected and common fights.
Crime rate is very high, two of my friend-girls got mugged, 4 got their cars broken into, one 4 times. All this and I am talking central and north of it (this is supposed to be the good area as apposed to south central).
A lot of drunk drivers looking for trouble I had a beer bottle thrown at me from a driving car while I was crossing the street of Central on Yale at 1pm.
more on this thread:
http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-m...uerque-nm.html
icpc, countrytrash, aunmguy on that thread, and the others have more points.
True it is cheaper to live here than elsewhere but there is a reason for that. You even dont get what you paid for, you get less. Please visit here first and spend some time before moving. Even Santafe gets old after a while, its just a plaza with some gift shops around it and snow. Big deal.
I hope this is useful.
Jason.[/quo
yikes!! Ive lived here 5 years and have never been exposed to any of this. Hmmmm?? What social circles are you a part of? All I can say is that If you dont want the scum bag experience, better move out of the scumbag areas.
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