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**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99539 06-14-2012 04:11 AM

Too many Mexicans. But you're probably used to that in Texas.

**Lucifer's Hammer** · (This post was last modified: 06-14-2012 04:19 AM by Lucifer's Hammer.)

Isn't that where the blue meth comes from? Just sayin'.

doomed

**Strategos**

17 in winter and 85 in summer?

Sounds like the high desert, and perfect for building with stone or adobe on south side of house. Keep house cool during day and warm at night due to the warming/cooling cycle.

**Devout Agnostic**

Strategos Wrote:

17 in winter and 85 in summer?

Sounds like the high desert, and perfect for building with stone or adobe on south side of house. Keep house cool during day and warm at night due to the warming/cooling cycle.

Yes. I know the property has a sharp 10ft slope that we could build a house into the side of, too, to keep the temperature more constant, generally. It all depends on the exposure, i still need to work out a few details.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67579 06-14-2012 04:40 AM

Strategos Wrote:

17 in winter and 85 in summer?

Sounds like the high desert, and perfect for building with stone or adobe on south side of house. Keep house cool during day and warm at night due to the warming/cooling cycle.

Passive heating / cooling and perhaps even partially subterranean housing would not be a bad idea.

**Devout Agnostic**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Strategos Wrote:
17 in winter and 85 in summer?

Sounds like the high desert, and perfect for building with stone or adobe on south side of house. Keep house cool during day and warm at night due to the warming/cooling cycle.

Passive heating / cooling and perhaps even partially subterranean housing would not be a bad idea.

Yes indeed, see my post directly above yours. This is where we'd need to spend money since, like i said, the only major disadvantage i see in terms of living off the land is a total lack of wood.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67579 06-14-2012 04:52 AM

Devout Agnostic Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
Strategos Wrote:
17 in winter and 85 in summer?

Sounds like the high desert, and perfect for building with stone or adobe on south side of house. Keep house cool during day and warm at night due to the warming/cooling cycle.

Passive heating / cooling and perhaps even partially subterranean housing would not be a bad idea.

Yes indeed, see my post directly above yours. This is where we'd need to spend money since, like i said, the only major disadvantage i see in terms of living off the land is a total lack of wood.

Well, another question I would be asking is whether the land and / or groundwater are polluted from the testing and nuclear waste from Los Alamos. Have you looked into that yet? Los Alamos would be North of you, right? Seems it would be a consideration, especially if you're moving a family there, as you said.

Might also want to check prevailing wind patterns as well. If the grid ever went down, you'd want to know the general direction the fallout from Los Alamos would likely be headed in (seeing as if the grid went down, there would probably be releases from Los Alamos).

**Devout Agnostic** · (This post was last modified: 06-14-2012 05:21 AM by Devout Agnostic.)

LoP Guest Wrote:

Well, another question I would be asking is whether the land and / or groundwater are polluted from the testing and nuclear waste from Los Alamos. Have you looked into that yet? Los Alamos would be North of you, right? Seems it would be a consideration, especially if you're moving a family there, as you said.

Might also want to check prevailing wind patterns as well. If the grid ever went down, you'd want to know the general direction the fallout from Los Alamos would likely be headed in (seeing as if the grid went down, there would probably be releases from Los Alamos).

That is a concern, and we have been looking into it, but havent found any definitive answers yet. the Rio Grande aquifer does connect to the Los Alamos region.

Regarding wind patterns, havent checked into that yet, but its less of a concern... i assume its very possible that we could be in the path of fallout, and pollution generally, but the jet stream moves west to east.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 102301 06-14-2012 06:19 AM

I was struck with how utterly barren the place was and visibly impoverished. Don't care for it at all. Forrest fires all over the green parts currently.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 06-14-2012 05:31 PM

Yes, all Mexican-haters, please stay away from New Mexico so those who are not prejudiced can enjoy the Land of Enchantment as equals. Oh, don't forget there are many, MANY Native Americans to hate there, too -- yet another reason to avoid NM like the plague and leave it for the ignorant, colorblind minority who find beauty in the diversity of its people and land.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 99107 06-14-2012 05:33 PM

Yes, all Mexican-haters, please stay away from New Mexico so those who are not prejudiced can enjoy the Land of Enchantment as equals. Oh, don't forget there are many, MANY Native Americans to hate there, too -- yet another reason to avoid NM like the plague and leave it for the ignorant, colorblind minority who find beauty in the diversity of the state's people and land.

**Leotard** lop guest User ID: 76478 06-14-2012 05:36 PM

royalyflushed Wrote:

I moved to nevada... its f*cking HOT. wrong time of year to move here.. lol

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 102423 06-14-2012 05:40 PM

Do you like chemtrails? Make sure your house and cars have HEPA filters.

**From Las Cruces NM** lop guest User ID: 75359 06-14-2012 06:09 PM

1st of all I dont think any of these above posters have been to NM.
15 years ago I moved here with my children from LV,NV .
The best move I made for my kids. The air is clean. The sky is always Blue ,
And lots of sunshine all year! I hate to break this to you but theres Mexican peoples all
over the entire planet. So I think you will be safe here! LOL!!!
There alot of famous people who live here, It is very beautiful if you like wide open spaces
and privacy !

http://www.las-cruces.org/

http://www.lascrucescvb.org/

Good Luck from NM

**Gracie**

Devout Agnostic Wrote:

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.

The land area you're considering near Belen, NM isn't in the undeveloped Rio Grande Estates, is it? I hope not, and assume you'll be visiting the area of Belen before you purchase any property around there. You're probably aware that Belen now has a station for the NM Rail Runner Express, which will probably bring more commuters to the Belen region. Good luck with your decision.
http://nmrailrunner.com/belen.asp

Rio Grande Estates articles (not the same as the developed Rio Communities):

High Hopes and Worthless Land
http://www.fredbernstein.com/articles/di...asp?id=121

The neighborhood Socorro Co. "forgot"
Some residents feel neglected
http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/on_assignme...-co-forgot

http://www.city-data.com/forum/new-mexic...es-nm.html