Please do not move here (Santa Fe, Los Alamos: real estate market, school, living in)
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I am not trying to be mean. Please do not move here! We have been overloaded in Santa Fe by people moving here from California, Texas and New York. You are driving up the prices, increasing the population and congesting traffic.
If you are from any other state and considering moving here, please, no. Thank you and good luck on your move!
Virtually every state that I considered for retirement CA, CO, NM, OR, WA has a similar problem. I grew up in California and loved it, couldn't imagine living anywhere else. But, it's an entirely different place now--overcrowded and too expensive. People have been flooding into CA since well before my parents moved there from Kansas in the 1950s. And, they come from not just the midwest, but seemingly every country on the globe. People want to live in a beautiful place and the rich who can afford to move to CA drive prices up.
I loved living in northern NM while working in Los Alamos in the late 90s, but real estate, in the places I would find livable, costs more and more as folks move to that beautiful state. Same thing in Colorado, Oregon and Washington state, and I'll bet it's true of many states I did not consider. I finally picked a state (NE) because it has a relatively small population, lots of open spaces, and an affordable city.
Guess what. Housing tracts and business parks are sprouting up in what used to be cornfields and the cost of living is climbing. Still well behind the coastal states, NM or AZ.
I am not trying to be mean. Please do not move here! We have been overloaded in Santa Fe by people moving here from California, Texas and New York. You are driving up the prices, increasing the population and congesting traffic.
If you are from any other state and considering moving here, please, no. Thank you and good luck on your move!
I feel the same way about Texas. Don't move here, either.
Besides shutting the border forever and making procreation illegal too, people will keep coming. Maybe me. However currently I am in Michigan and I do like how the population has not grown, how housing is affordable, and how there are many wide open spaces once out of Detroit metro.
Meh. Though I pretty much grew up in NM I was born in CA and watched it go down the crapper, in no small part due to the incessant influx of people. I understand where you're coming from but I have little sympathy.
It seems like most of the same people complaining about this are somehow also in favor of mass immigration.
I am not trying to be mean. Please do not move here! We have been overloaded in Santa Fe by people moving here from California, Texas and New York. You are driving up the prices, increasing the population and congesting traffic.
HA I heard Santa Fe was a dump with all kinds of crime.
I hope that this spurs some new cities in the West. I find the entire area to be massively under populated. We need some new cites and population centers so there isn't congestion.
HA I heard Santa Fe was a dump with all kinds of crime.
I hope that this spurs some new cities in the West. I find the entire area to be massively under populated. We need some new cites and population centers so there isn't congestion.
Planned cities out in the desert with no water, no agriculture, and no jobs? Sounds like something from the Kim Jong-Un School of Urban Planning.
Santa Fe is always changing. My first encounter was in the 1970s and I heard people say it was ruined after that. When I moved back I had to agree and chose not to live there. It is a nice place to visit.
Money talks and developers and builders are mostly building for the big spenders and some newcomers have no idea of what to spend on a home.
Meh. Though I pretty much grew up in NM I was born in CA and watched it go down the crapper, in no small part due to the incessant influx of people. I understand where you're coming from but I have little sympathy.
It seems like most of the same people complaining about this are somehow also in favor of mass immigration.
Funny, I had the same thought!
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