Considering Relocation to Las Cruces (Silver City, Ruidoso: insurance, homes, high crime)

[tito]

Originally Posted by westchester2005

hi!am pretty new to this country like 2yrs.am a nurse by profession,i came here thru an agency,and they place us in a good hospital in white plains,new york. i love it here but it's just so expensive...we are considering to move to a new place but havent decided which is which..i have three kids..am thinking of going to alamogordo or las cruces...or to north carolina..can you please give me an insight? thanks a lot

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[kamelia]

Las Cruces is a community with a lot of diversity.

My husband and I grew up in Ohio and have enjoyed Las Cruces because, like Ohio, it has the military (White Sands Missile Range, NASA, Holloman AFB), farming (chile, cotton, pecans, onions), and education (NMSU, Dona Ana Community College).

The weather is a big change, but doing a lot of swimming in the summer helps. Having AC in your home (instead of evaporative cooling) helps, too.

If you miss the snow, in just an hour's drive you can go to Cloudcroft, play in the snow (in the winter), then drive down the mountain and enjoy mild temperatures again.

The people are very friendly. You'll find plenty of other Midwesterners here.

Hope you love it as much as we do!

[6 FOOT 3]

Originally Posted by westchester2005

hi!am pretty new to this country like 2yrs.am a nurse by profession,i came here thru an agency,and they place us in a good hospital in white plains,new york. i love it here but it's just so expensive...we are considering to move to a new place but havent decided which is which..i have three kids..am thinking of going to alamogordo or las cruces...or to north carolina..can you please give me an insight? thanks a lot

Well North Carolina and Southern NM is quite different from each other except that both states have mountains. I think Las Cruces has three major Hospitals now and Alamogordo has one although both communities are growing fast with people and retirees so more doctors/physcians and doctors offices are moving into the area so i'd think nurses would be in demand in southern NM but i can't speak for North Carolina as i have visited but never lived there.......

[JoelInHawaii]

Originally Posted by neoaznm

I resent people like you. I am a Las Cruces native, with over 410 years of history here. I recently moved back home from metro Phoenix, where thousands of investors like you drove up housing costs artificially. If you want to make money, don't do it on our dime.

Thats not nice to say, your making assumptions of Gregs Motives! I've seen the same happen to Hawaii, now a gal. of milk is $5.00 instead of $8
Hawaii is growing faster than the roads, yes it stinks, but so does living in a sleepy town going no-where! Las Cruces is on its way, the investors will come! Sorry its not the LC that your ancestors once enjoyed, like I said their are towns that have not changed much in 200 years, the people are unfriendly and don't like newcomers! Try going to a town like that and your opinion will change! My wife is Mexican 100% She lived in a town in Ohio that hated Mexican's and Blacks, couldn't get waited on in a store, they would burn your food so you wouldn't go back to the Cafe' yeah... bet if you were broke down on the side of the road GregW would be the one to stop and help! Just want you to see the other side! Aloha's ~joel

[dmderosa2k]

I am attending graduate school through NMSU and although most of the work is online (I live in Albuquerque and did my undergrad at UNM), I have to travel down there once in awhile to take classes. I have had a wonderful experience with NMSU and Las Cruces. Much much better then UNM and a much nicer conservative population. NMSU has had a bad rep as a party goerers school but yet I have found it to be different. I have always been able to take care of all my school needs online and got accepted to grad school without having to make a single phone call or drive down there. At UNM, the experience can be horrifying. Las Cruces is a wonderful place and I would recommend it for anybody.

[dmderosa2k]

The real estate investors are hurting Albuquerque too. They will come in and buy hundreds of houses from the developers before locals and individuals can buy them which jacks the price sky high. I have been priced out of the housing market because of stuff like that.

[neoaznm]

Originally Posted by JoelInHawaii

Thats not nice to say, your making assumptions of Gregs Motives! I've seen the same happen to Hawaii, now a gal. of milk is $5.00 instead of $8
Hawaii is growing faster than the roads, yes it stinks, but so does living in a sleepy town going no-where! Las Cruces is on its way, the investors will come! Sorry its not the LC that your ancestors once enjoyed, like I said their are towns that have not changed much in 200 years, the people are unfriendly and don't like newcomers! Try going to a town like that and your opinion will change! My wife is Mexican 100% She lived in a town in Ohio that hated Mexican's and Blacks, couldn't get waited on in a store, they would burn your food so you wouldn't go back to the Cafe' yeah... bet if you were broke down on the side of the road GregW would be the one to stop and help! Just want you to see the other side! Aloha's ~joel

My beef is with investors--real estate speculators who have little or no vested interest in their target community. You would be familiar with this phenomenon, I'm sure. Investors purchase properties with no intention of living in them. A newcomer who is genuinely appreciative of the city he or she moves to is a welcome asset, and my comment was not even remotely akin to your message regarding ethnic/cultural intolerance. Again, take a look at what happened to Phoenix, and perhaps you'll get my point.

[holmes]

While it's nice to see Las Cruces growing, I fear that it's headed down a path that will water down some of its character. It really has changed so much from just 10 yrs ago. A lot of that small town character is kind of being tossed aside for mass development & is a bit sad to see. I realize we can't keep it small forever, but still..

[JoelInHawaii]

Originally Posted by neoaznm

My beef is with investors--real estate speculators who have little or no vested interest in their target community. You would be familiar with this phenomenon, I'm sure. Investors purchase properties with no intention of living in them. A newcomer who is genuinely appreciative of the city he or she moves to is a welcome asset, and my comment was not even remotely akin to your message regarding ethnic/cultural intolerance. Again, take a look at what happened to Phoenix, and perhaps you'll get my point.

I guess i didn't see GregW as the Donald Trump on the Oprah Show! Thats what happened to the big island of Hawaii...my home tripled in value over a few months! "truth" Nice to stick a million dollars in my pocket but the locals can't afford a home! I'm attracted to LC only because I see growth on top of everything else I like about the city. Sorry to say will never have earth without this enormous greed problem! "something about Adom & Eve"... Even the little guy with a 401k expecting 15% return? How much of that is driven into property investments and hey lets add an Oil Company in there! I say teach the GregW's how to step up and be an investment to a community so he don't get left behind. "Stick' it to the Man!" instead of being resentful to a guy like that, maybe he's just a kid outta school or a hardworking young man with a family?? But hey I can see your point to, We just gotta live together, and who know's China might own it all before its over, Peace~

[americankayaker]

Thanks for the quick reply. We are aware of the history of the mining industry in the west as my wife's father was a wildcat uranium driller in the post ww2 era in New Mexico, Texas and Nevada. Kind of ironic that we would end up on the short end of his tailings, so to speak. We wonder if someone is doing anything about the water situation in Las Cruses or if a dangerous problem really exists? Maybe the presence of uranium in its raw state isn't enough to cause a problem? Does anyone know? Seems odd the city could feed the residents lethal doses of the stuff without someone raising the roof and the governor is running for president. You'd think some enterprising republican would glom onto that real quick! I guess my next step might be to contact the local authorities. Right. Any other suggestions?