Gay Albuquerque (Santa Fe, Hope: new house, camper, compensation)

[veggggies]

Originally Posted by Shmikker

im sorry about the weird looks, my aunt and uncle have been going to the parade for years, i go with them and my cousins, i always see other family's and their children. i think the parade broke a record this year for attendance.
IM GLADD YOU WENT and enjoyed it

Weird looks don't bother me at all. I told hubby I want to go next year just to soak it in. I thought it was rather fun.

[jeep4x4]

Albuquerque is not gay, Just a few of the people that live here are.

[trailtramp]

Its just time for new life adventure!

[trailtramp]

Working on buying a home in Placitas...done the gay getto thing in Florida, Phoenix and San Diego so proximity to the bar thing is negligable. Have gay friends spread out all over the city. Don't mind the half hour commute into Abq, just wondering if it is really ultra conservative there?

[ABQSunseeker]

Good luck trailtramp with your buying in Placitas. We may be neighbors. We have friends in Placitas and met various people from Placatas, and no, it doesn 't seem like an ultraconservative place at all. Most of the ABQ metro area seems to be a pretty tolerant place, regardless of one's voting Republican or Democratic, liberal or conservative. It's why so many gays live in New Mexico.

[bradly]

Originally Posted by jeep4x4

Albuquerque is not gay, Just a few of the people that live here are.

The albuquerque metro area has about more than 18,000+ LBGT citizens so i dont really think thats a few at all hahah :]

[trailtramp]

Have an offer in on a home in Placitas so hoping to put it together and be in by the late fall. Good to hear it feels like a great live and let live place.

[zeb]

Wow. When I originally posted this item, never expected so much discussion. We've been renting a loft in downtown Albuquerque since April while we decided where to buy. Not downtown. It's not ready for adults. Good for 20-30somethings. But not us coupled 40somethings. We prefer nice restaurants to late nights.

So, Nob Hill is where we're looking to buy. It seems the most liberal and neighborhood-y.

The single family home inventory, though, is older, limited and overpriced. Plus we don't need maintenance b/c we'll be living half time here and half time in Phx.

So we're looking into a condo/townhome that's within walking distance to coffee shops, restaurants, etc. We do like wine with dinner and cops here are crazy about drinking and driving. I've never lived in a city with so many checkpoints. It borders on harassment.

But I digress. We looked in the Foothills. Too many John McCain signs. We looked around Uptown ABQ, but no sense of n'hood. Rio Rancho, Placitas are way too suburban for our taste

Seems like there's a lot of interest in the SOuthwest from gays around the country. Right now, I'd say ABQ is much more conservative than Phoenix, despite the whole blue/red state thing. Of course Phx is a lot bigger, so that plays into it, too.

And re the weather conversation: It's too darn cold right now for my taste. But we bloom where we're planted...

[ABQSunseeker]

Welcome to ABQ Zeb. I hope it will turn out to be what you're looking for. As for the weather, this cold snap comes after a beautiful month of temps mostly in the 70s. You'll find that cold snaps don't last too long here, and when the wind dies down, the sun will warm things up. But it is, after all, a four season climate.

As to being more conservative than Phoenix, I don't find it so. Maybe quieter? Certainly its politics--- voting patterns place it more "liberal" than Phoenix. It's a very tolerant friendly town, but laid back, not showy like Scottsdale.

[zeb]

Thanks! The reason ABQ seems more conservative could be that in Phx we have liberal friends and live in Obamahood. So maybe it just feels more liberal than here. We def get that vibe in Nob Hill and even have made some connections with other gay couple there through mutual friend in Phx. And my comment about the current cold snap in no way is meant to disparage the perfect weather of the last few weeks. And I have to admit I'm looking forward to wearing a coat and scarf out to dinner tonight!