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| Las Cruces Dona Ana County |
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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! |
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Last edited by 6 FOOT 3; 06-06-2007 at 07:04 PM.. |
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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 |
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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.
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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.
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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..
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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?
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