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I would think that for a retiree New Mexico would be a better place than Texas, as far as money goes. Property taxes in Texas are brutal.
This is true, and typically states that don't have income taxes make up for it elsewhere. On average the state tax burden is lower in TX than NM, but it varies depending on individual circumstances.
If your income is over $100K single, or $150K married, all of your social security is taxable. The law is written so that if you exceed the limit by $1.00, all of your s/s is taxable. So, that $1.00 of income could cost $1,000-2,000, or more.
I've been here a year now. I live just above Juan Tabo. When talking to our neighbors soon after arrival, I asked for confirmations on directions, starting out, 'So I go down Menaul, take a left on Juan Tabo..." I didn't get any further because both immediately corrected me, saying, "It's Wontebow" one flowing word that sounded like one long syllable.
Huh?
So I started asking workers in stores who seemed open if they were native Spanish speakers, those who looked like they might be. Many were and were happy to help.
Every one I asked was so nice when I wrote out "Juan Tabo" and asked them to please read that out loud to me. It didn't sound like Wontebow. Not even slightly. But then when I told them, "I THOUGHT that's how you say it in Spanish!" and explained why, they told me they also pronounced the street name "wontebow," too. If you have learned Spanish then err on the side of that, the pronounciations of Spanish words are spanish, not english or midwestern what ever they speak.
I am likely always going to sound like a transplant because I don't know if I'm ever going to be able to mangle saying Juan Tabo to that degree. I keep trying, but I'm not having a great deal of success yet.
I grew up in Albuquerque and Juann Tabo is pronounced Juan (spanish J sounds like H but with a U after it almost sllent), Tabo (long o on Tabo) a separate word. Anyone who says wantabo is young or a transplant. it is two words, a name of something.
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