I have an opportunity to move my family to a small town in the Albuquerque metro area of New Mexico in the near future. Been doing research for the last few days... everything that's important to us looks as good or even better overall than Texas, where we are currently living (low gun regulation, education freedom, low income and property taxes, barebones local government) and even the weather seems very mild compared to the deserty reputation NM has... 17 degrees in the winter, 85 in the summer, really? The tract of land we would be developing seems well suited to gardening--12 feet deep of riverbottom silt and well-water from a mountain-fed aquifer far larger than the population of the area could ever use.

We are all more than willing to learn spanish, the only real drawback i see is the near total lack of trees, but if it was perfect then there would be lots of people living there and property values would be much higher.

I just wanted to get a lay of the land from current or former LOPer residents of the Albuquerque area. Pro or con, stuff you wouldnt know until you had lived there for a while, and stuff that only conspiracy weirdos tend to care about.

I have an opportunity to move my family to a small town in the Albuquerque metro area of New Mexico in the near future. Been doing research for the last few days... everything that's important to us looks as good or even better overall than Texas, where we are currently living (low gun regulation, education freedom, low income and property taxes, barebones local government) and even the weather seems very mild compared to the deserty reputation NM has... 17 degrees in the winter, 85 in the summer, really? The tract of land we would be developing seems well suited to gardening--12 feet deep of riverbottom silt and well-water from a mountain-fed aquifer far larger than the population of the area could ever use.

We are all more than willing to learn spanish, the only real drawback i see is the near total lack of trees, but if it was perfect then there would be lots of people living there and property values would be much higher.

I just wanted to get a lay of the land from current or former LOPer residents of the Albuquerque area. Pro or con, stuff you wouldnt know until you had lived there for a while, and stuff that only conspiracy weirdos tend to care about.

As a country boy who moved there for about 6 months from the PNW I'd have to say it wasn't very nice. Seemed dirty, tons of mexicans, low wages, everything fenced off and very limited access even when you get out of the city and surrounding areas. I high tailed it back to the country.

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I have an opportunity to move my family to a small town in the Albuquerque metro area of New Mexico in the near future. Been doing research for the last few days... everything that's important to us looks as good or even better overall than Texas, where we are currently living (low gun regulation, education freedom, low income and property taxes, barebones local government) and even the weather seems very mild compared to the deserty reputation NM has... 17 degrees in the winter, 85 in the summer, really? The tract of land we would be developing seems well suited to gardening--12 feet deep of riverbottom silt and well-water from a mountain-fed aquifer far larger than the population of the area could ever use.

We are all more than willing to learn spanish, the only real drawback i see is the near total lack of trees, but if it was perfect then there would be lots of people living there and property values would be much higher.

I just wanted to get a lay of the land from current or former LOPer residents of the Albuquerque area. Pro or con, stuff you wouldnt know until you had lived there for a while, and stuff that only conspiracy weirdos tend to care about.

people's heads seem to detach in that southern part of the world. it would seem hard to enjoy the beauty of the area without a head. just sayin.

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As a country boy who moved there for about 6 months from the PNW I'd have to say it wasn't very nice. Seemed dirty, tons of mexicans, low wages, everything fenced off and very limited access even when you get out of the city and surrounding areas. I high tailed it back to the country.

we run our own mail-order business so wages wouldnt matter. i am originally from washington state, so im sure you and i have very similar sensibilities in many ways. thanks for the input.

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LoP Guest  Wrote:

As a country boy who moved there for about 6 months from the PNW I'd have to say it wasn't very nice. Seemed dirty, tons of mexicans, low wages, everything fenced off and very limited access even when you get out of the city and surrounding areas. I high tailed it back to the country.

we run our own mail-order business so wages wouldnt matter. i am originally from washington state, so im sure you and i have very similar sensibilities in many ways. thanks for the input.

What part of ABQ are you thinking of moving to? I lived out of Sandia, people there considered that country but you could throw a rock and hit a house anywhere you were standing in the area.

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people's heads seem to detach in that southern part of the world. it would seem hard to enjoy the beauty of the area without a head. just sayin.

opps. didn't notice the "new" before mexico. seriously, i think they still speak english there.

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I have an opportunity to move my family to a small town in the Albuquerque metro area of New Mexico in the near future. Been doing research for the last few days... everything that's important to us looks as good or even better overall than Texas, where we are currently living (low gun regulation, education freedom, low income and property taxes, barebones local government) and even the weather seems very mild compared to the deserty reputation NM has... 17 degrees in the winter, 85 in the summer, really? The tract of land we would be developing seems well suited to gardening--12 feet deep of riverbottom silt and well-water from a mountain-fed aquifer far larger than the population of the area could ever use.

We are all more than willing to learn spanish, the only real drawback i see is the near total lack of trees, but if it was perfect then there would be lots of people living there and property values would be much higher.

I just wanted to get a lay of the land from current or former LOPer residents of the Albuquerque area. Pro or con, stuff you wouldnt know until you had lived there for a while, and stuff that only conspiracy weirdos tend to care about.

people's heads seem to detach in that southern part of the world. it would seem hard to enjoy the beauty of the area without a head. just sayin.

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Devout Agnostic  Wrote:

we run our own mail-order business so wages wouldnt matter. i am originally from washington state, so im sure you and i have very similar sensibilities in many ways. thanks for the input.

What part of ABQ are you thinking of moving to? I lived out of Sandia, people there considered that country but you could throw a rock and hit a house anywhere you were standing in the area.

Oh I forgot to add the tap water will give you the trots and tie your gut in a knot. And every place you go to eat will ask if you want red or green on your food. I think they even but that stuff in their cokes.

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LoP Guest  Wrote:

As a country boy who moved there for about 6 months from the PNW I'd have to say it wasn't very nice. Seemed dirty, tons of mexicans, low wages, everything fenced off and very limited access even when you get out of the city and surrounding areas. I high tailed it back to the country.

we run our own mail-order business so wages wouldnt matter. i am originally from washington state, so im sure you and i have very similar sensibilities in many ways. thanks for the input.

What part of ABQ are you thinking of moving to? I lived out of Sandia, people there considered that country but you could throw a rock and hit a house anywhere you were standing in the area.

Oh I forgot to add the tap water will give you the trots and tie your gut in a knot. And every place you go to eat will ask if you want red or green on your food. I think they even but that stuff in their cokes.