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Quote:       Originally Posted by billy

What do i like about New Mexico? it's cleaner than regular mexico!

Hehehe!!

ain't that the truth.

[cremley]

Quote:       Originally Posted by Deersniper

Sandia lab deer? Hot air balloons, and mountain biking. Sounds like it's expensive to live there. Sit out in the back yard drinking beer, BBQing, and waiting for the UFO's to come out. Cool.

Only in Taos or Santa Fe...and Albuquerque...and Las Cruces because of the over priced homes. But other than that, there is a quite a bit of outdoor stuff that one could do. Mountain biking, rock climbing, river rafting, kayaking, motorboating, fishing, and shooting on BLM land all over the state.

[Kemosabe]

So, to summarize:

Except for the lousy weather, crappy local food, fires, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, the occasional tsunami, UFOs crashing, high taxes, low wages, corrupt government, high crime rate, proximity to Texas, lots and lots of wasted space that could be ranchettes or similar housing development, environment polluted by nuclear (new q ler?) testing and research, hot in the summer, cold in the winter and windy most of the time, the sun constantly beating down on you, did I mention crappy local food?, cults, gangs, politicians, religious zealots, militant atheists, orthodox agnostics, aura balancers, chrystal healers, hippie communes, right wing liberals, left wing conservatives, ultra hardcore moderates, apathy elevated to an artform, invasions by Texans, Californians, and New Yawkas, etc., New Mexico is a great place to live - compared to Pluto.


Gee - I shoulda left years ago.

[RNL]

I moved to New Mexico almost 10 years ago and love it. I retired last year here in Santa Fe and I guess I'm one of the few right wingers in the area. I do however live in the county although some of my neighbors are quite liberal and antis at that. My closest neighbor, fortunately, is much like me.

Unlike Kemosabe I don't think we have crapy local food or that many fires, never had a flood here or even a hint of an earthquake, at least up here in Santa Fe. Some of the other things he alludes to, maybe.

[DUGABOY1]

What i like most about New Mexico is 36,000,000 acres of public land in the state to hunt and camp! Every kind of land from alcoline deasert to snow capped mountains, from rolling grass land to canyon country, with muledeer, whitetail, Javalina, black bear, elk, Prong horn, with Lion and coyote, bob cat and wild turkey, blue quail, doves. the Gila wilderness the Pondarosa pine country, juniper hills, and sand dunes. and less people in the whole state than lives in Houston Texas.

I have hunted New Mexico since I was 14 yrs old, and am now 73 years old and have tramped all over the sates with bow, rifle shotgun, and handgun killed my first head of so-called dangerous game in the Sacrimento mountains near Sac Peak at age 14 years old. I know that state like the back of my hand, and wanted to retire there, but the state income tax, and a change in the game laws to a draw system nixed that. Too bad because I love that state! I wanted to buy a little lot to build a cabin at Pinas Altos just outside Silver city in the edge of the Gila wilderness, but it simply was not to be, for an old man on a fixed income!
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