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Londonderry has really gotten suburbanized and sprawled, hasn't it?
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Originally Posted by GregW
FWIW – that 160 grand will not buy a buildable empty lot where we currently live in Londonderry, New Hampshire. Our condominium town house (low end for L’derry) is worth almost that much.
When we moved here 26 years ago Londonderry’s population was just over 9,000. Last census had us at 24,000. This change in density is one of the reasons I want to retire to a less congested place. We do not need three supermarkets and a Home Despot. One grocery and a hardware store would, as it was, be just fine.
So we are looking for a place with reasonable shopping, decent health care (I hope to get old enough to need some) and, compared to a normal southern New Hampshire winter, no winter at all. As I mention we did visit Silver and liked the place. However we also like Socorro and it has NMT University. As I am an Environmental Scientist the opportunity to renew my studies is overwhelming.
Socorro is also centrally located and a small industrial park. That may be ideal for the alternate energy systems I am developing.
Silver City Transplants, Water and Real Estate Prices
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Originally Posted by Poncho_NM
In all seriousness, do we have any facts to back up these facts? Or is this just internet myths etc...
I know three people who recently left Silver City after living there over 15 years and were originally from Colorado, Indiana and Northeast U.S...
Rich
I have to agree with Rich. I have been in Silver City for 13 years now. There are transplants from all over the US right now. I moved down from Colorado. At the time, Silver City real estate was less expensive than the mountain areas of Colorado. I do understand that Silver City's real estate is expensive relative to other areas of the southwestern US, but there always seems to be enough interest in our area and people willing to pay the price to be here. As with most areas around the country, our prices are down significantly from the highs of 2005-2006. We don't have the repo inventory that other areas have so maybe we haven't experienced such a large drop in prices compared to the hard hit areas of AZ, NV, CA and FL. Our copper mines are currently in full operation including reclamation work that is ongoing regardless of the copper prices and we have a fairly healthy employment picture right now, so I don't see a downturn in prices for much longer. I do believe that there is some really strong activity now in Phoenix and Tucson and possibly parts of Florida compared to recent years and we tend to follow the other markets a little later. BTW, the poster who commented on the water shortage is not speaking from factual knowledge. Our water basin called the Mimbres Basin is a closed basin and Silver City and Deming have projected supplies for several decades. We also have some water rights that have yet to be utilized from the Gila-San Francisco Basin on the west side of the continental divide.
I lived there. It is a mining town that shuts down every 3 to 5 years. Copper is heavy there and maybe in the water among other contaminates. Read effects of copper in the body. The mountians are beautiful. The Cat Walk and the Cliff Dwellings are great places to see. To live there, is to be a healer of some sort or a witch as there are more than 13 witch covenants there. Some businesses are ran by some witches. If your not a witch they will try their best to make you one and if not they will gossip about you to everybody. Gossip flies like wild fire and ruin you. The love affair rate is very high. Find a doctor out of town. Enbezzlement is high. If you try to do the right thing people start to hate you. Jealousy is high. It is turning in to a gay town. It has million dollar homes there. The schools are bad. They pass any one who can't read or write. Down to earth schools are best. To get a job, well they hire family first so fat chance if you get a job. Be self imployed or wealthy. The cops sell drugs to everyone. If you go eat out your food is prepared by drunks or worse. The college there is poor. My professor once told the class "If you really knew what went on at this place you would not have put your money in this place at all. Sad to see you sit here wasting your time. Get out and go build your future someplace else." YES! He was a socialology teacher that told us that. So many times I heard that people who had graduated from WNMU had to retake courses else where as the college WNMU is a low standard university. College there is to help the poor, for some to find a spouse or for the 3 that really get a good degree there. The clothing stores sell booty shorts and low cut tops, g string underwear for your 6 year old and all the girls dress like that. It is slutty looking and the rapes do happen there. 40 year old men get girls drunk. Pray for Silver City New Mexico is all I can say.
Dang trolls, why do they always have to crawl out from under their rocks?
The copper industry, like oil and gas, sees boom and bust periods. It impacts the small communities that are most reliant on the boom times for paying the bills the most - Silver City being no exception. And like all such extraction industries, it involves toxic chemicals and polluting processes. So that part of the Silver City history is hard to deny.
The U.S. has the most stringent environmental regulations in the world. This is 2012, there are regulators checking everything and anything. They check soil, water, air e.t.c. constantly. I really don't understand this paranoia about the environment.It's almost become a religion for some, now, if I lived in China or India, I would be more concerned.
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Silver City Transplants, Water and Real Estate Prices
do you really want to move to silver city nm?
