What do you love/hate about New Mexico? (Albuquerque, Las Cruces: camping, living)

[AndyJ]

Originally Posted by Towanda

I don't have the answer to the Kansas question you asked. I have never known anyone from Kansas who has moved to New Mexico.

I am not from Kansas myself. I fell in love with NM in 1970 when my husband was stationed at Kirtland Air Force Base in ABQ. I knew I wanted to live in the state. I was a New Yorker, and I was enchanted with the Land of Enchantment right from the beginning.

After NM, we moved to Texas, Michigan, and Kansas. I did graduate from the University of Kansas, so I am a Jayhawk for Life, and I will be bringing my Jayhawk clothes and bumper stickers, etc. with me when I move to NM.

Ah, OK. Well I suppose it's just the general allure of the state that brings folks from the heartland and pretty much every else to NM. We look forward to having you Towanda, Rock Chalk

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by harry o

I haven't been to Alamo since october and i'm so depressed as gotta get there soon. As soon as i hit the overpass coming in to Tularosa from Carrizozo on U.S.54 i always thank God for the safe 220 mile journey from Albuquerque and then get the biggest smile as i know i'm Home to the Tularosa Basin !!!

P.S. Love to roll down my truck window and smell the Creosote bushes that inhabit the area there as they smell like fresh rain in the desert......

I know what you mean about the smell of things after a fresh rain in the desert.....you learn to really appreciate rain when you get less than 10-12 inches a year on average!

I am really looking forward to revisiting Alamo....now if I could just get the newspaper to deliver my Sunday edition on a regular basis.... :-(

[6 FOOT 3]

Cathy...the city just broke ground today on its state of the art Business Park by the airport. This should help in recruiting companies to relocate or expand in Alamogordo. Also the F-22 Raptors are coming to Holloman so that ought to be really cool and good for the city. My hope is for the city to grow and prosper so i can leave Albuquerque and move back to Alamogordo and the Sacramento mountains and make a good living there........

[nmretire]

Thanks everyone for the well wishes. I am so very excited to return to NM

It took one week of returning to the Kansas City area for all the aches and pains to come back. Now the legs are swelling again and the joints are rubbing. But I press on cause soon I will be so much better. The short time in NM I actually could walk without hurting. I even lost my cane somewhere in NM and had to go to Wally Mart for a new one before I left

There is something about the air, wind and all, in New Mexico. Maybe it's the very real blue skies. Last week while on break at work, I looked up at the skies the day after a rain storm. Yep the skies were blue alright...sort of like....baby blue..Not the REAL NM blue.

Have a blessed day everyone

[Greenchili]

Originally Posted by nmretire

Thanks everyone for the well wishes. I am so very excited to return to NM

It took one week of returning to the Kansas City area for all the aches and pains to come back. Now the legs are swelling again and the joints are rubbing. But I press on cause soon I will be so much better. The short time in NM I actually could walk without hurting. I even lost my cane somewhere in NM and had to go to Wally Mart for a new one before I left

There is something about the air, wind and all, in New Mexico. Maybe it's the very real blue skies. Last week while on break at work, I looked up at the skies the day after a rain storm. Yep the skies were blue alright...sort of like....baby blue..Not the REAL NM blue.

Have a blessed day everyone

I hear ya on the blue skies! Here in Lompoc CA, we have pale baby blue
skies. I wonder what makes the skies soooo blue in NM? And what produces
some of the most glorious sunsets and sunrises here on Gods green earth!!??

Greenchili

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by harry o

Cathy...the city just broke ground today on its state of the art Business Park by the airport. This should help in recruiting companies to relocate or expand in Alamogordo. Also the F-22 Raptors are coming to Holloman so that ought to be really cool and good for the city. My hope is for the city to grow and prosper so i can leave Albuquerque and move back to Alamogordo and the Sacramento mountains and make a good living there........

Hey, that's great, Harry......sounds like the area just might grow!!

I'll keep y'all posted on my trips!!!

[GregW]

Deep blue syies are caused by a complete lack of particulate haze. Definitely a sign of insufficent automobiles and industry. Proper brown/grey/hazy skies are available in or near all the crowded places on the coasts. With enough development some parts of NM will get this way.

But not soon, I hope.

[nmnita]

What makes NM different?

Best by far: ;weather and natural beauty.

I think the sky is bluer because the air is relatively clean, very little smog.
Most people are friendly and down to earth.
Open spaces
great airport in Albuquerque

Worst;; way too liberal someone made the comment (I think it may have been the OP, there was little racisum: Bull, I have never lived anywhere with so much. It is reverse, but does exist
Poverty and laziness go together and both exist

We moved here 6 years ago, love our neighborhood, love the sunrise and sunsets but are about the move back to the mid section of our wonderful country. Not only do we miss our family we can't cope with the mindset of the people here. Maybe if we lived somewhere else in the state we would feel differently.

[NMUSA]

Hello everybody,

I am looking for work in NM as part of a compromise with family. It is nice, well the part I visited a few years ago is, which is Red River. As a computer programmer I think that pretty much restricts me to Albuquerque; which I've been told by a Clovis, New Mexican I know, is an arm pit. Also, I've heard next to nothing good on this board about Albuquerque as well...is it really that bad?

I'd really rather work in Santa Fe but it seems there is not much in my line of work there. Anyone have pointers on companies that hire computer programmers in Santa Fe (not much shows up on the web job boards...monster, dice, careerbuilder)?

As far as the liberal state of being (denial) in north-central NM, I can handle it, I lived in a large western European city for a while. Talk about being in a state of denial...

[CieloAzul70]

I just got back from Albuquerque. I had to cut my vacation short because my family started suffering from heat exhaustion. We're from Utah where the climate is similar, but the problem is we were camping out and there isn't a lot of shade. We were camped out in cottonwood trees by the Rio Grande but it still did not shade our tent enough to keep the heat out. Next time I go there I will go at a cooler time of year or stay in a hotel.

I have a family of 6 children (two sets of twins). Some people seemed very put off by us when we would go into a store or restaurant. I don't know what the problem was. This was especially so at the Wal-Mart in Rio Rancho; people there were actually rude to us. We were told that Rio Rancho is mostly people from the Eastern U.S. that have moved to New Mexico.

What we did like is the food was very inexpensive and good. We went up the Sandia Tram and hiked and this was very nice. Most of the people (other than Rio Rancho) were very nice to us. I did not see a lot of poverty or vagabonds in New Mexico. I would really like to go back and take more time to explore. It was very beautiful and I feel bad about cutting it short.

I would recommend that if you go to New Mexico, be prepared for the sun and heat. Put on sunscreen even if you're going out in the sun for 10 minutes. Drink lots of water. Don't take a vehicle that doesn't have AC.