Researching and feeling better about NM (Alamogordo, Silver City: schools, university, quality of life)

[MarMar 58]

Thanks to all,
We are planning on a spring vacation and will be traveling the foothills from Alamogordo through to Silver City to the state line. I am going to be taking pics like crazy and collecting newpapers(also now online) and talking to the town folk due to the advice ya'll have given. What about wildlife? We have panther,bobcat,black bear,wolf and coyote and of course those left over prehistoric creatures we call alligators. Anyone know where classes are given for adobe and strawbale building? Also any advice for livestock, been thinking of boer and spanish goat production. My husband says I am losing it because we will be stuck with a herd of goats that I have made into pets and can't get rid of. LOL. What about jobs? I am a RN and work in the Emergency Room, and may want to work full or part time. My husband is an electrical and instrumentation technologist instructor and he may want to contract and teach classes somewhere. As always any info is welcome.
Thanks,
Mary

[Steve97415]

Your post prompts me to respond with a reply I've given previously about planning a move. I heard this before from someone about moving to another country and have found it to be equally true for moving to different areas within the same country...especially if there is a significant cross-cultural element to the move.

Don't dream too much. Don't plan too much. Above all, don't idealize a place you don't live in yet. Don't imagine how it will be in exquisite detail and construct a "castle in the air" that your future reality can never measure up to. This is precisely what leads to disappointment. People often move someplace that offers a good quality of life, but they're not happy because it isn't how they thought it would be. Being neither what they imagined it would be, nor being what they are accustomed to, they start pining for the place they left or some other place in their past.

Leave a lot of space in your soul for the unknown and the unanticipated in New Mexico...a lot of space. Let there be enough slack in your hopes to be open to taking a different path than the one in your plans. Let the reality of actually being in the Southwest be the compass that guides your dreams. Above all, keep uppermost in your mind Shakespeare's wise counsel on the limitations that humans have over customizing the world they hope to inhabit:

"There is a destiny which shapes our ends, rough-hew them as we may".

[_yb]

As far as schools go. Ruidoso has a branch of Eastern New Mexico university. Alamogordo has a branch of NM State. Silver has its own in Western NM.

We have tons of wildlife in NM. We have way to many mountain lions in NM. They are affecting our mule deer and big horn sheep populations big time.
The game commision has been trying to work on that problem the last few years.
Plenty of black bear, coyotes and bobcats also.

We do not have any REAL wolves in NM. The wolf hybreds they released as a "FEEL GOOD" measure several years ago do not know how to hunt wild game. So they are now mostly dead.

[sanjon]

Look at Eastern NM - Quay County. Land is cheap here. Lots of wildlife. Hospital and great opportunity for electrician's. Ute Lake at Logan,NM is really beginning to grow. Check us out.