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01-05-2009, 12:55 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Fence Lake, NM
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You live where?? "New Mexico"--
Huh...I cannot believe how many biz, hospitals, insurance companies etc., have told my wife (SuninHair) and me that they do not do business with Mexico... 
We tell them we are in NEW MEXICO  AND ITS LIKE "WHERE".
There are actually people out there that DO NOT KNOW That NEW MEXICO IS A STATE..
Jesh...talk about trying my short string patience at times. 
Anyway...spread the news: THERE IS A STATE CALLED "NEW MEXICO"
and its a great place...
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01-05-2009, 01:20 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Rio Rancho, NM
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I know exactly what you are saying.
I do not know how many people asked us why we were moving to another country. Hello? Didn't these people go to school?
My biggest problem was trying to find a flight to book my cats on. One insisted that Maine to New Mexico was an INTERNATIONAL flight. I asked her several times which state was the international one. I finally gave up and said I wouldn't ever fly with them, as who knows where we would end up.
In the January issue of New Mexico, there is an article titled "One Of Our Fifty Is Missing". Its about folks living in NM dealing with people who think its a country.
As my t-shirt says...
New Mexico
..Not really new and
not really Mexico...
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01-05-2009, 01:21 PM
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Junior Member
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Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Truth or Consequences
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There is a long running article in New Mexico Magazine that is titled "One Of Our States Is Missing". Usually a hilarious read on this very subject.  |
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01-05-2009, 01:36 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico
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I am not sure how much we want to spread the word about how great a state this is....
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01-05-2009, 01:36 PM
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No Longer A Monkey
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: New Mexico
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Hunter Wold
Huh...I cannot believe how many biz, hospitals, insurance companies etc., have told my wife (SuninHair) and me that they do not do business with Mexico...
We tell them we are in NEW MEXICO AND ITS LIKE "WHERE".
There are actually people out there that DO NOT KNOW That NEW MEXICO IS A STATE..
Jesh...talk about trying my short string patience at times.
Anyway...spread the news: THERE IS A STATE CALLED "NEW MEXICO"
and its a great place...
HW.. |
I can top you mate.
I have had visitors here at my office chew me out because there was no border control between here and Texas. I would laugh but it is an EXTRTEMELY sad state of affairs when people want their passports checked coming to New Mexico. |
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01-05-2009, 01:55 PM
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Mom
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: New Mexico
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It is very frustrating to be told I live in Mexico.
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01-05-2009, 01:56 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Rio Rancho, NM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Towanda
I am not sure how much we want to spread the word about how great a state this is....
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True, very true. |
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01-05-2009, 03:38 PM
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Zen Warrior
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Timberon, NM (In the Sacramento Mountains)
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It's happened to me as I was trying to change the address and get my health insurance changed from Texas to NM.
At first, I thought I was talking to an idiot so I hung up, called back, got someone else and this person was an idiot too. It took me about an hour of making several phone calls and getting switched to different people before I could convince them that NM is a state and not a country.
To make it worse, my health insurance is from the military so it made me wonder why the military was taking in these idiots.
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01-05-2009, 03:49 PM
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Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes :p
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Jamestown NY
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Wow. Incredible stories. It's funny but one of my children's teachers wanted to talk to me because my son was telling other kids we were moving to Mexico. Now I know he knows to say New Mexico, but it's funny what people hear.  |
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01-05-2009, 04:01 PM
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Senior Member
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Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: NM south central mountains
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When my son was born, people in Chicago thought he needed a passport!
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