Albuquerque's 10 subtle advantages for professionals and entrepreneurs
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This is a really great thread clearly spoken by someone who actually "knows" Albuquerque. When I visited Abq for the first time, I was shocked at what a secret it was. It didn't feel dangerous at all compared to the bigger cities that I'm used to in the midwest, and statistically speaking, I don't believe it's that much worse than Denver. It has its rough spots, but it also feels clean and quite lively. People there are active, both physically and intellectually. And like you said, there's a lot of humility, and people seem more present.
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1) Politically moderate
If you are politically moderate, progressive, or just turned off by left-right vitriol, Arizona, Texas, Utah, Florida, Idaho and other popular mild-climate affordable states can feel quite unsettling with their perplexing culture/religion wars and angry, rigid ideological sorting. By contrast, moderate New Mexico, like Colorado, feels immediately hospitable to an educated, cosmopolitan, worldly professional who believes the problems we face as a nation are highly complex and require compromise and a practical, nonideological, "whatever works" Silicon Valley-type mindset.
Very, very nice post.
However, I don't see Colorado as I do New Mexico in this regard. Colorado is quite polarized, between the Boulder left-of-center crowd and the Northern Colorado residents who want to create their own state as they feel that part of Colorado has nothing in common with them. It's all gotten quite angry for a few years now. And hardly "immediately hospitable" as you stated. In some ways, this unfortunate polarization in Colorado rivals Arizona's, at least to me. But yeah, while there's some difference between Taos earth mothers and Hobbs oil folks, it's all pretty much live and let live here in NM.
Also, a big part of the attitudes and creativity has to do with the presence of The University of New Mexico in the heart of ABQ. Not sure you truly mentioned it. I'd have OVER-mentioned it.
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