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Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

There has got to be some esl teachers who lived or traveled in that state before.. beautiful place.

stumptown · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 8:06 am Post subject:

The food is awesome, the weather is nice, the Mexican women are gorgeous, but the economy is terrible. And real estate is insanely overpriced. There's a serious gap between the haves and the have nots. Albuquerque (UNM) is a good place to go to school if you are going to get another degree or do some graduate work.

kangnam mafioso · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: Teheranno

spent 3 years in albuquerque/unm. great place ... the city is mediocre but it grows on you. jemez mountains, hot springs, continental divide, santa fe/ taos skiing, white sands, carlsbad caverns. 3-4 hours to durango and four hours and you are in mexico. a part of me will always be there. great food, culture, laid back peeps.

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

kangnam mafioso · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: Teheranno

kangnam mafioso · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: Teheranno

Tiger Beer · Joined: 07 Feb 2003

kangnam mafioso · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: Teheranno

albuquerque is laid back. the university area is cool ... lots of coffee shops, bars and restaurants. the northeast heights near the sandia mountains is where the money is ... lots of pricey suburbs. i was in grad school so spent most of my time in the university area (unm). the unm area is close to the downtown which is improving. if we hit the bars, we would go around unm or downtown. there is an asian presence in albuquerque ... not like vancouver or anything, but they are there. i lived with a japanese girl for a while. there are plenty of good sushi bars, an asian market, vietnamese and thai restaurants. not many koreans though. new mexican food is awesome ... everything comes with fresh tortillas and red or green local chilie. the frontier restaurant across from unm is a good place to start. the culture in new mexico is interesting ... lots of native americans and reservations surrounding abq, hispanics, mexican nationals, and whites. you do get more people moving in these days, but nothing compared to colorado. new mexico is still pretty cheap. on the weekends, it's fun to drive down to el paso (4 hours), park the car, and walk over the bridge to juarez, mexico. huge city ... 5 million; you can get a room for 20 bucks and smoke cuban cigars and drink patron tequilla for dirt cheap. if you're looking for something more relaxing, you can drive from albuquerque to the jemez mountains (1 hour) and hike and sit in natural hot springs on the continental divide. beautiful up there! you definitely need to check out carlsbad caverns, white sands and taos as well.

Mills · Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon

I was born in Seattle, but my family moved to Albuquerque when I was 6. I went to Catholic school (St. Mary's then St. Pius X) until my sophomore year when we moved back to Seattle.

Besides the scenery I didn't like much else.
I hated being a minority (seriously I was the only white kid until 7th grade and I was picked on just for that reason).
I hated the absence of any large body of water.
I hated the rattlesnakes.
I hated the damn Balloon Fiesta.

My Wife always asks, "Wouldn't you like to go back some day?" HELL NO. That's like asking an escaped death-row inmate if he ever feels nostalgic about the old cell.

Land of Enchantment my a$$.

Mills · Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon

kangnam mafioso · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: Teheranno

Mills · Joined: 07 Jan 2006 Location: Incheon

Wishmaster · Joined: 06 Feb 2003

Damn, Tiger Beer!!! You seem to like a lot of the states that I've lived in. I lived in New Mexico for a bit and the main reason was because of the scenery(big blue sky and wide open spaces) and the fact that I wanted to get a clean start somewhere. I lived near Tramway(close to the base of the Sandia Mountains). Needless to say, it was a hell of a commute because I didn't have a car!!! Anyway, the job market is crap and I got the endless, "New Mexico is a poor state" lines bludgeoned into me by the various employment/state agencies. Good jobs are certainly a rarity in Albuquerque. The transportation system sucks...unless it has changed in the past few years...they were cutting back routes/times. So, unless you have a car, you are kind of screwed. I agree with a previous poster that the University area is cool...nice location. ABQ does get their share of concerts and events, so there is decent entertainment. I loved Petroglyph National Monument because you can still get there by the bus and then walking...it was great because the deeper you delved into the desert the more quiet it became...a great place to get away from the large city noise. I love the desert...love the yucca and the various forms of cacti. In all, I would say that New Mexico is an awesome state for scenery and getting away from crowded places...but it is tough to get a decent job there plus the fact that you must have a car or you will be severely limited in your mobility. And if you like hockey, they've got the Scorpions. Go Scorps!!!!!!!!

Sofa_King · Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Location: South Korea

Whoa whoa whoa.....

There's a NEW Mexico now??

desultude · Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2006 5:40 am Post subject:

I've spent a lot of time in New Mexico- I have a former sister-in-law/ current good friend who is 10th generation Santa Fe.

There is a little town on the eastern slopes of the Sangre del Christos, on the edge of the great plains, about due east of Santa Fe, that I have been in love with for years. Its Las Vegas, New Mexico (vega actually means "plain", as in the great plains.) Its a sweet little town, where Spanish is spoken in the main- it seems like Santa Fe might have been before the real estate interests Disney-fied it. Damn, its nice, but poor as dirt.

Santa Fe and Taos are good, but too touristic. Taos isn't bad off season (as in not summer or winter).