Moving to Santa Fe suburbs

[Zoidberg]

Look hard in Santa Fe proper. There are affordable new homes there just off I-25.

May not be as cheap as in, say, Cleveland, or Saginaw, but aren't terribly different prices from Albuquerque homes. You should have no problem affording them on a ME's salary.

Save the gas, time, and wear on the roads. A little warning: if your husband has hair left (many engineers don't), a cruise up and down Cerrillos Road will help him lose it.

[Devin Bent]

I forgot Chupadero. North of Tesuque and way up in the foothills -- you are almost at Nambe Lake. Not my cup of tea. I would not want to make the drive in the snow and Chupadero is not big enough to support anything.

But it is the next place north of Tesuque so people pay a lot to live up there. 500K for half an acre and 2,000 square feet. Ouch.

[Devin Bent]

Originally Posted by Zoidberg

Look hard in Santa Fe proper. There are affordable new homes there just off I-25.

Save the gas, time, and wear on the roads. A little warning: if your husband has hair left (many engineers don't), a cruise up and down Cerrillos Road will help him lose it.

Yes. There is probably as much or more affordable housing within the city (Just get away from the fashionable areas) as in the county. The fact is that the median sales price in the county is considerably higher than that in the city.

(Of course, we are not comparing comparable housing. The typical county home will be bigger with a larger lot.)

For a map that shows just about all the communities we have discussed see http://www.santafenm.gov/DocumentView.asp?DID=1940 at page 5.

[Devin Bent]

Originally Posted by santafescribe

Though I hate to echo the "Santa Fe's too expensive" line, it's getting there, for people who need to make a living and pay a mortgage. That said, there's some great property - relatively new homes in a subdivision called Tierra Contenta - around the $250,000 range in the south side of the city. If that price range is too high, then you're priced out of an area around 20 miles of Santa Fe, and you should consider Espanola/Mesilla to the north and Edgewood to the south.

Tierra Contenta is being promoted/planned by a non-profit and the website is Tierra Contenta : Affordable Housing for Santa Fe, NM

You can click on the links to builders and see some of the homes and prices.