When are you considered a resident? (Pittsburg: apartment, lease, credit report)

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

LOL!! Good one.....

Someone asked me how I like being a New Mexican.....I just told them that I was very glad to be here around the mountains...but that I was a transplanted Texan!!

Hey, I am a transplanted New Mexican living in Texas (naturalized Texan) by way of Chicago.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by PanTerra

Hey, I am a transplanted New Mexican living in Texas (naturalized Texan) by way of Chicago.

LOL!!!

I find Alamogordo much more like West Texas than New Mexico, but it is a very nice blend! But if I ever return to Texas to live, it's going to be down around Alpine, if I have anything to say about it. I cannot imagine living in a place with no mountains again, ever.

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

LOL!!!

I find Alamogordo much more like West Texas than New Mexico, but it is a very nice blend! But if I ever return to Texas to live, it's going to be down around Alpine, if I have anything to say about it. I cannot imagine living in a place with no mountains again, ever.

I loved the mountains, I was born in Albuquerque. The Sandia Mountains, when I lived there, were viewed from my back yard, completely unobstructed. Dallas is sooooo flat. Landing at DFW on a clear day makes it look so flat, you can see the Dallas skyline out of one side of the plane and Ft. Worth out the other, with no topographic relief anywhere.

[Rathagos]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

How do you like San Angelo? I grew up 80 miles southwest of there, and we used to go all of the time for shopping, movies, medical, etc.

I like it very much. After 21 years in the Navy, I've lived in 5 states and 4 other countries. But I decided to retire here. Speaks volumes for the city, I think. And it's growing nicely. Getting some good businesses coming in with the slower influx or problems. I would rather be where spring and fall last more than 3 days, but I wouldn't give up the friendliness and pace of this city for weather. I can always visit snow and more mild summers.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by PanTerra

I loved the mountains, I was born in Albuquerque. The Sandia Mountains, when I lived there, were viewed from my back yard, completely unobstructed. Dallas is sooooo flat. Landing at DFW on a clear day makes it look so flat, you can see the Dallas skyline out of one side of the plane and Ft. Worth out the other, with no topographic relief anywhere.

Yes, Albuquerque and vicinity are really neat, wonderful mountain views.....but the city has grown so much that I didn't consider it because of the sheer size! I liked it (as well as EP and LC) much better 20 years ago!! I could never handle DFW.....either size-wise or climate!

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by Rathagos

I like it very much. After 21 years in the Navy, I've lived in 5 states and 4 other countries. But I decided to retire here. Speaks volumes for the city, I think. And it's growing nicely. Getting some good businesses coming in with the slower influx or problems. I would rather be where spring and fall last more than 3 days, but I wouldn't give up the friendliness and pace of this city for weather. I can always visit snow and more mild summers.

Sounds like you found your place!! It is just unfortunate that the nights don't cool off as much as they once did in WT.

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

Yes, Albuquerque and vicinity are really neat, wonderful mountain views.....but the city has grown so much that I didn't consider it because of the sheer size! I liked it (as well as EP and LC) much better 20 years ago!! I could never handle DFW.....either size-wise or climate!

I left Alb in 1964. We backed up to the last street (Comanche) with any development on it. nothing on the other side but the mesa and then the mountains. I was back there in 1977 to see that it had been developed way up into the mountains.

[Cathy4017]

Originally Posted by PanTerra

I left Alb in 1964. We backed up to the last street (Comanche) with any development on it. nothing on the other side but the mesa and then the mountains. I was back there in 1977 to see that it had been developed way up into the mountains.

It has certainly changed over the years.....I first saw ABQ and NM in general in the late 1950s, on vacation.

[PanTerra]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

It has certainly changed over the years.....I first saw ABQ and NM in general in the late 1950s, on vacation.

I was there in the 50s, just for one of them (1959). But I had not yet developed my capacity to retain memories at that time. That probably came sometime after, IIRC, 1962 - 63.

[TexasGirl@Heart]

Originally Posted by Rathagos

And although some of us were born in another state, we were STILL born Texan... just didn't know it until we moved here!!!

That describes me to a "T"