New Mexico tops list of States retirees are moving to (Albuquerque: insurance, home)
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It would be interesting to know what states they are moving from. Is it Calif that leads the list? Then a survey done to find out if they remain in NM.
Lots of NY transplants in NM.They far outnumber the CA people, in my observation.
Good Luck. I hope everything goes well for you. Your doing what you want to do. . I don't have the luxury of living everywhere I would like. I wish I did. I have to he very near to good and sufficient medical care. Which involves Specialist. I've had to accept that fact in retirement. It limits my options. Where I live in Fla was adequate, but changed dramatically the past 2 years. They can't retain doctors, cant seem to recruit any. The regional health care is completely overwhelmed here. Far to many people in Florida.
That's one unfortunate thing for some people. If I really had to I'd probably look at things differently myself. But I don't at this time. And if it ever does happen, I may still say the hell with it and enjoy what time I have where I want to be. I won't know for sure if that's my attitude unless it comes to that, though.
It would be more likely for that sort of thing to come up in my wife's case. But even with her it's probably no more than 50-50.
If I forgot to wish you good luck on your retirement move, good luck. You've got the right attitude.
It looks like we may be keeping our westside Albuquerque home. We recently put a metal roof on it and now my wife and I are talking about updating the kitchen, the tile and carpeted flooring, one of the bathes, the windows and the stucco siding. God willing and the creeks don't rise.
No one in my family but me seems to want the old Texas farm. It needs all the updates above but it will have to wait in line. With a family full of females, I'm used to standing in line.
Well, I've been semi-retired for a few years now. Only really not working a little over a year (part of that was to see the effect on taxes). I'd prefer to work part-time, but too much to do around this place to let me deal well with both.
My wife is eligible in a few months. Hell, she could retire now if she wanted because we've basically been living off of my retirement checks and saving her income. But she wants to wait until closer to moving time. (That could also come faster if she left her job and worked with me to get some things fixed/cleaned up around here for selling, but I'll leave her to how she wants to deal with it.) Since part of her earnings go into an IRA I guess that's not such a bad idea.
I retired in 2003, after living in the Bay Area for 50 years. After a few months of livin' the life, I realized that I couldn't make it finally in northern California, so I sold my house, ridding myself off all debts, including the second mortgage that I took out for my son's college education.
With the left over equity, I bought a beautiful home in Placitas. I spent 11 blissful years there, making friends, enjoying the culture, and taking in the beauty.
One day in February, 2014, I was shoveling snow off my driveway and thought to myself, "Why risk a heart attack doing this when you could be barbecuing in California?" That night, I literally started packing and ended up in San Diego, where I have lived for the past five years.
If it weren't for the awareness that I was getting old and my lack of faith in the NM health care system, I would still be looking at the enchanting SandÃas and listening to coyotes serenade at night. I think about it every day, even while barbecuing.
Retirement brought me to New Mexico, and I would recommend living there to any retiree who appreciates landscapes, the out-of-doors, and chiles.
Whether NM is tops or not isn't that important. What is important is that NM is a popular place for retirees and as places like Phoenix become unbearably hot and over developed in part due to the influx of retirees and others, we can look forward to it getting more and more popular and these same "benefits" will increase in NM.
good point and the weather issue is one reason we would never have considered Phoenix, but loved ABQ. Plenty of sunshine but high enough that even mid summer was bearable with wonderful nights. the one thing I will add is< I don't think NM is really getting much more popular but who knows. I would have to actually see the stats and even then stats are hard to figure out sometimes.
Isn't it somewhat limited where a person could retire to in NM. It is a rather remote state. The Santa Fe area is far from being cheap. Which I'm told is where many go. Other than that its Las Cruces and Albuquerque. I'm getting the impression Albuquerque isn't the main draw for this population. Which strikes me odd since that's where the majority of Doctors are.
Living here in Florida it seems everyone and their relatives heads to this state. It is so overcrowded here from retirees to everyone. Thats its become suffocating. I don't see how NM is number 1 in this category.
Remember the post was based on one study and that was a moving company,not to mention % can be misleading. I will add one more thing, one of the reasons we didn't stay in NM, as much as family was the less than outstanding availability of good medical care and we were in ABQ metro area.
Isn't it somewhat limited where a person could retire to in NM. It is a rather remote state. The Santa Fe area is far from being cheap. Which I'm told is where many go. Other than that its Las Cruces and Albuquerque. I'm getting the impression Albuquerque isn't the main draw for this population. Which strikes me odd since that's where the majority of Doctors are.
Living here in Florida it seems everyone and their relatives heads to this state. It is so overcrowded here from retirees to everyone. Thats its become suffocating. I don't see how NM is number 1 in this category.
Yes, the state is somewhat remote, but look around.
Albuquerque is the main draw for this population...
New Mexico population: 2,059,179
Albuquerque city 545,852
Las Cruces city 97,618
Rio Rancho city 87,521
Santa Fe city 67,947
Roswell city 48,366
Farmington city 45,877
Look at a map carefully... Rio Rancho which is adjacent to Albuquerque appears to have 11 medical facilities. My wife and I have had surgery in Rio Rancho.
Concerning health care in Albuquerque. I heard somewhere, I don't remember where. That some Medical Groups either don't take Blue Cross. Or if they do they are not PPOs. Is this true?. I have Blue Cross Federal and Medicare. Thanks
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