Austin or Albuquerque? (houses, restaurants, oil)

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by spyderman

These threads kill me....how can one person tell another not to live in a place because he dosent like it ????

that is why it is so important to point out the good and bad as one sees it. I hope I am never guilty of telling someone not to live someplace based on my experience. I might tell them my opinion as to how it affected me..

YOu are right..!!!

[abqsunport]

Originally Posted by Poncho_NM

It is not an issue to me, but interested on where you got that data.


Rich

I don't know where Shmikker got his/her data, but a simple google search comes up with this

http://www.governor.state.nm.us/history.php

Economically speaking, New Mexico enjoys a rich technology infrastructure thanks to decades of investment from the military and national laboratories like Sandia and Los Alamos. Per capita, New Mexico has more PhDs than any other state, and with seven of the nation’s largest non-profit arts foundations based here in New Mexico, we enjoy a rich cultural and intellectual life that is evidenced by the droves of smart, artistic, and creative people that continue to move to our beautiful state.

Santa Fe's High-Tech Chaparral (int'l edition)
(2001)

It wasn't an obvious dream in New Mexico. People migrate here from places like Silicon Valley for the magenta sunsets, the adobe and sagebrush, the laid-back lifestyle. They sure don't come for high-tech hustle. Los Alamos County (pop. 18,000), home to weapons-maker Los Alamos National Laboratories, has the highest concentration of PhDs per capita in the U.S., but most are government scientists. And they are, for the most part, a decidedly nonentrepreneurial lot: a top Los Alamos researcher enjoys a nice lab and a healthy $100,000-a-year salary--not a lot of incentive to become a hard-working entrepreneur.

[Poncho_NM]

Thanks abqsunport. Interesting, 'but Per capita, New Mexico has more PhDs than any other state' is not really the same as 'actually Albuquerque has more professional and phd graduates than any other city.'


Rich

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by Poncho_NM

Thanks abqsunport. Interesting, 'but Per capita, New Mexico has more PhDs than any other state' is not really the same as 'actually Albuquerque has more professional and phd graduates than any other city.'


Rich

that is exactly what I thought, combine Sandia with Los Alamos and I can see where this is true, but certainly not in Abq.

Nita

[AlisonL]

Originally Posted by gritp2h4

Austin. Parents raised me in Albuq, while in the service I found out really fast what a crappy place Albuq was and is. Lived in Rio Rancho for a few years, have been back to see the old homestead and to my disbelief looks like morons have moved in to the whole neighborhood. Wouldn't live anywhere around Albuq or NM for that matter. Do yourself a favor, don't move to NM

With an attitude like that, I doubt very much that NM misses you.

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by AlisonL

With an attitude like that, I doubt very much that NM misses you.

I agree, we all have our preferances and that is why we choose to live where we do, or maybe it is why, but for anyone to have his views, I would not want him as a neighbor.

Nita

[Poncho_NM]

Originally Posted by nmnita

that is exactly what I thought, combine Sandia with Los Alamos and I can see where this is true, but certainly not in Abq.

Nita

I worked at a place in which over a period of about five years we had five Phd's working for us, I guess about four of them had worked at Los Alamos at one time or another.

Lawrence Livermore National Lab in California has a good bunch of PHd's. These labs have contracts with the Department of Energy and they hire or contract a lot of PHd's as well as Department of Energy in Germantown, MD.

So, that is what perked my original question...



Rich

[MaggieBelize]

Originally Posted by rybert

What? Downtown is AWESOME!

We have a glut of restaurants! Some REALLY good ones too!

Artichoke, Standard Diner, Seasons, Tucanos, Scalo, La Provence, Jennifer James 101, etc. It would take a lifetime to visit all the AMAZING smaller restaurants, Red Ball, Los Cuates, etc. The you can start traveling along the river (North or South) where there are other WONDERFUL restaurants.

Heck, even in Cedar Crest you have Green Line Cafe, run by another Jet Set chef.

I agree, I feel really fortunate to have "a restaurant" in Cedar Crest (you mean Jay Wulf's Greenside Cafe, right?). And Sandia Crust makes some of the best pizza anywhere. But that's it for this side of the Sandias. Sigh.

And I agree that ABQ has "a glut" of restaurants, and that some of them are actually "really good", including 6 of the 7 you list. But honestly, none of these are "great", and there aren't enough really good ones to pitch ABQ to someone on the basis of its restaurants ... IMHO.

As I said, I'd pick ABQ over Austin any day, but we really need more great restaurants. And I still say downtown is comatose!

[rybert]

I only have Houston as a comparison... we've got them beat.

[MaggieBelize]

Not a widely agreed-upon fact, but truly Houston is one of the greatest restaurant cities in the U.S. - for its incredible number of really great restaurants ... almost as good as NYC, better than L.A. or Chicago, and compared to them, really great prices.