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Well,it seems everyone has their own ideals on what makes NM a good/bad place to live. I moved here with family in 1958. First home was right near San Mateo and Indian School. Joined the service and moved back. Moved to the Inez neighborhood for 10 years then out to North of Paseo, east of Eubank.
This is what I like about Abq. as I have been all over the world and most parts of the USA.
We have NO humidity-big thing with me
We have NO earth quakes-that are meaningful or you can feel.
We have No serious flooding-did in 58 but solved that with ditches.
We have NO, I said NO tornadoes. One in 85, but it got lost and thought it was in Kansas.
We have NO huge snow storms that keep us cooped up for days.
We have 30 minute-or less rain storms.
We have friendly people. All you have to do is approach them with kindness. Be surprised how it works.
We have GREAT mexican food.
Yeah we have war zones, south of Zuni and east of Lousiana. Stay away.
You people who want to live in Seattle, go for it, YOU MUST LOVE Humitidy, Same with Texas, Same with Denver, Same with Phoenix (The heat is unbearable)
Oh, and the dude who posted and started this tread is a kid. How can you tell? Most adults capitalize
their "i's" I went to the store, but i found it dirty at Wally Mart. Good grief. I was a PI most of my life and found that I had to be friendly to people to get information out of them. I was never turned down.
I started a raport and made many friends, even though I am a crazy, (intorverted violent) combat nam vet. So, now you have heard a part you haven't seen on this thread. Maybe you all live in the wrong part of town.............
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I'm the Seattle gal so I just wanted to clarify. I think the climate here is marvelous except for June, July, August. And all the people I have met here have been very friendly. People are colder in Seattle, would be my experience. But..................one place is not perfection for everyone. Had I come here prior to Seattlle I probably would have felt differently. I just came from the wettest, but also most visually perfect country (IMO) in the USA. As a city, Seattle is world class and extremely multi-cultural. It has other issues, traffic and cost of living being major, but I cannot imagine a place more gorgeous. And then there is the rain. I love everything about Seattle but the rain and that can be nine or ten months a year! The beauty of the environment here is so different to me.
In a perfect (not mine!) world I would live here most of the year and spend the summers on the Olympic Peninsula. Have you ever been there?
I lived in Denver for years in the eighties and the weather was quite similar to here but not as hot (which I liked) and a bit longer, colder winters.
I love New England best (where I grew up) but am in the SW & PNW for the next year or two for business. CT is usually right in the middle on humidity between here and Seattle.
I am hoping the beauty of this environment will grow on me and will probably move to Taos for the climate.
I like to have some snow between Christmas and new year, but just a little bit that I don't have to plow or shovel continually. I am in Illinois now, but still tell people here the story of the snowstorm in Lovington NM back in 1981, where it snowed 12 inches overnight and was all melted by mid morning! Some think I was making it up but I wasn't! Wish there was a better chance of actually getting a job in some of the small NM towns I want to move to, I would be there now!
In reading through this and many other city-data threads, as well as having traveled and experienced quite a bit myself, the general feel I get is that...
All states/people/cities/towns/parishes/whatever have their opinions about just about everyone else from everywhere else.
I have traveled from coast to coast, I have met friendly and downright nasty people, (regardless about what I was told about each place).
I grew up in the Midwest, and only one thing I've noticed seems uniform across the states...Everyone regards people from CA with a 'them California people,' kind of generalization, lol.
I have tried to live places I felt unhappy, and have learned that it's not about EVERYONE and EVERYTHING in that area, it's that it's not a home for me. I am the only factor in the equation that I can personally change.
Try not to hate an area or a people just because you don't fit in, (and sometimes you won't no matter what you try). Respect them, leave them in the dust, and move on for YOURSELF.
Went there once, got off the plane and was taken to a Auto Rental location. Got out of the car and noticed two things right away. One, it was dark at noon and two, it was raining. I went inside Enterprise and said
"how often do you get this rain?" They said "Oh, it's not raining, it's just a a typical day in Seattle!!" It was that mist and the humidity was 100%
Yikes! If you don't like June, July, And August here, spent a day or two in Phoenix! That will change your mind!!! LOL!!!! Good luck!
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Originally Posted by gambit11
Hi Zxuser,
I'm the Seattle gal so I just wanted to clarify. I think the climate here is marvelous except for June, July, August. And all the people I have met here have been very friendly. People are colder in Seattle, would be my experience. But..................one place is not perfection for everyone. Had I come here prior to Seattlle I probably would have felt differently. I just came from the wettest, but also most visually perfect country (IMO) in the USA. As a city, Seattle is world class and extremely multi-cultural. It has other issues, traffic and cost of living being major, but I cannot imagine a place more gorgeous. And then there is the rain. I love everything about Seattle but the rain and that can be nine or ten months a year! The beauty of the environment here is so different to me.
In a perfect (not mine!) world I would live here most of the year and spend the summers on the Olympic Peninsula. Have you ever been there?
I lived in Denver for years in the eighties and the weather was quite similar to here but not as hot (which I liked) and a bit longer, colder winters.
I love New England best (where I grew up) but am in the SW & PNW for the next year or two for business. CT is usually right in the middle on humidity between here and Seattle.
I am hoping the beauty of this environment will grow on me and will probably move to Taos for the climate.
The world could end tomorrow. I spent 10 months in the nam, 2 in Okinawa and people there only shot at me and I have no idea why. I am a pretty decent person. The weather was terrible, so those of you that go coast to coast looking for the ultimate weather, I have already been coast to coast and across many time zones. We have it great here. You just have to be aware of your surroundings. As in any place you go. Those volcanoes might be sleeping, but I am sure they won't wake up as long as I have left here on earth. LOL!!!
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Heh.
That's what they used to say in Memphis in 1811
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or in Charleston in 1885.
The Sandias came from somewhere.
The volcanos are just sleeping.
They could wake up tomorrow or 1 million years from tomorrow.
Well, I grew up in the Pacific Northwest. and I loved it then because it was what I knew. but when i got older i realized how depressing monotonous rain and gray gray GRAY every day was. and how freaking humid it was all year long. the cost of living kept going up up up. the real estate shot up so far so fast it went from being able to get into an affordable house that started with a 1 and was actually do-able for a non six figure income earner to NEEDing that six figure income to afford a crappy fixer upper. the logging and fishing got hurt, and the little charming towns started dying and the alcoholism and the drugs and the homelessness got worse and the rain just kept on coming.
so, i moved to the wonderful desert. if you had told me years ago I would find a link between the ocean and the desert I would have laughed at you.
but there's an open-ness, a timelessness to both. and if you park somewhere quiet and just listen to the wind roll over the land. it reminds me of the sea.
we picked Phoenix because it was huge. lots of jobs, choices, etc etc. the first summer here it was hittin 125/126 every day for about 3 weeks. figured if we could survive that, we were set. I do love things about the Phoenix area. but it's time to get away from 5 months of HEAT. also don't like the way the state is being run at all. while Napolitano will do great things for the US at large, we needed her here. Brewer is scary. Arapaio and Brewer is really scary.
what does this have to do with New Mexico? after 7 or 8 years of Phoenix. We are heading east. funny thing is when we moved south it was AZ vs NM.
so here's to hopin we're comin home to the right decision now eh?
seems like southern new mexico is a bit cooler than crazy ass phoenix in the summer at least. lol 100 vs 115+ sounds awesome. (we're lookin at LC. still want to be in the south/desert) Is New Mexico really much different from Arizona? visiting just isn't living there. We're looking forward to the change.
no matter what though. when i look out my window on just about any day and i see blue skies and sunshine and flowering trees, i smile and i thank my lucky stars for the southwest. everywhere has troubles. but at least it's sunny here!
we picked Phoenix because it was huge. lots of jobs, choices, etc etc. the first summer here it was hittin 125/126 every day for about 3 weeks.
125/126 never happened. I've been in Tempe since 1978 and 122 is the highest temperature recorded at the airport. Believe me it was hot as I was working outside, but 125/126 is crazy. The temperature reached 122 on June 26, 1990.
New Mexico is beautiful. I hope you enjoy it! I wish I could spend more time there. Maybe someday. These days about 4-6 weeks a year is all I can spend in NM.
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