>>2853935
Personally living in the desert would be really depressing for me

>>2853937
plenty of areas in nm that arent desert in the way youre thinking. tijeras and cedar crest are green and mountainous and just outside abq. nm isnt like las vegas desert

2 years isn’t that long OP just go for it.
I lived in ABQ for a few years and miss it often. Locals call it the land of entrapment because people always want to move away then end up coming back.

Pros: it’s sunny 300 days a year, you get 4 seasons, low cost like you mentioned, good food esp if you like spicy food, people are generally nice and not full of themselves like big cities, good size that is big enough to have an airport and entertainment and variety but small enough that you can cross town in 20min, good outdoors activities hiking, skiing, camping, fishing.

Cons: crime, there’s lots of theft and vehicle break ins are common in bad neighborhoods tho it’s easy enough to avoid the bad areas, violent crime too but unless you’re looking for trouble or selling drugs you’ll never be effected, AWFUL driving in ABQ, your insurance rates will go up and you will see people racing recklessly all the time, dating is a major con but you have a girl so it doesn’t matter, job market isn’t great you might struggle to find gainful employment and end up selling insurance or waiting tables or working in a warehouse, I mentioned weather is good but springtime is windy for 2 months and often gets dusty, I couldn’t make friends because locals are nice but usually dumb and uneducated, I’m no fuckin ivy league scholar lol I was shocked how ignorant locals were, like they are totally unaware of the outside world, many have spent their whole lives in NM.

Literally just don’t live near I40 or I25 and you will be fine. I’d suggest living in the NE heights east of tramway is ideal, the west side, rio rancho, or nob hill. Don’t live south of I40 unless it’s nob hill. The neighborhoods I mentioned are perfectly safe and mostly quiet. When I lived in ABQ I had friends and family visit several times, the only person who didn’t like it there was my silver spoon buddy who has spent his whole life in million dollar homes and fancy resorts

NM is hot, dusty, poor, boring. 90% chance you'll get robbed if you live there two years. Do not move to NM unless you are in Mississippi or somewhere even worse

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>>2854033
NM doesn't feel unsafe in the same way that Atlanta feels unsafe, but it's like if San Bernardino County in California was an entire state. Not all area are run down but everywhere in NM feels kinda trashy in one way or another.

>>2853958
>Locals call it the land of entrapment
it's called that because it's an entire state of people who are "trying to figure their life out" so they can leave by never get far enough to do so.... I think being born there is kind of a curse though that you don't experience as a transplant. As a transplant you can always go elsewhere and don't have ghetto family members holding you back and hitting you up to solve their problems.

>>2854044
Ruidoso, Taos, Angel Fire, Los Alamos, and a few other mountain places are gorgeous. You're right tho most cities are awful...Deming, Alamogordo, Socorro, Belen, Las Cruces, Espanola and a few more are disgusting trashy towns full of junkies and people who lack the brains and skills to ever get away.

>>2854045
IMO it's a lot of low IQ people who have few options in life. Nothing wrong with that. Not everyone can be a /trv/ genius. You're right about ghetto family members dragging people down. Crabs in a bucket.

>t. lived in NM for 3 years

>>2853942
>he thinks juniper pinyon forests are green
Dude, you've been living in a dry climate for too long.

>he thinks evergreen trees are green
Anon, I…

>>2854050
I went to Chama to check out the train thinking it would be like Durango but no, it felt like Appalachia. Loose dogs. Boarded up storefronts and a Dollar General. Couldn't wait to get out of there.
Even the Rio Rancho suburbs that feel nice and safe just have this feeling like everybody shops at Walmart basically.
NM just has this low class feel to it all over.
And holy fuck Espanola was thinking it would be like Santa Fe or something and there were billboards around town telling people how to not OD on meth.
Haven't been to Taos (discount Aspen) tho Santa Fe was cool.

>>2854208
Espanola is one of the worst places I've ever been. Not exaggerating, 25% of that town must be on meth. It's extremely depressing

>>2854132
If you spend any time in a truly green deciduous forest, with dozens of different tree species casting deep shade across the forest floor, the sun-baked "evergreen" monocultures of the rocky western hills would seem extremely desolate and bleak by comparison.
>>2854208
At least Appalachia has verdant greenery that comes alive in spring with all kinds of melodic singing birds. In New Mexico you'll see crows and jackrabbits. Centuries of Spanish cattle overgrazing the land have ruined it beyond repair. What used to be lush meadows bursting with wildflowers every monsoon season are now plains of bare dirt dotted by ugly clumps of sagebrush. What used to be stately pine/oak forests are now scrubby juniper thickets.
>>2854052
The state has been steadily slipping downwards in rankings, now falling below West Virginia and Mississippi in many respects. In some ways it does feel like a god-forsaken land, especially after the horrible wildfires destroyed vast portions of the northern mountains (formerly the most beautiful and forested part of the state).

It's everything that sucks about Arizona with none of its good.

>>2853935
New Mexico sucks. Suggest looking elsewhere if your girl is a nurse. Nurses are in demand everywhere. You can find somewhere much better than NM.

>>2853935
Yes. And if you settle down, your kids are going to face an uphill battle against downward mobility.

>>2854855
IDK if that's really true if you're anglo (as they call white people there) and not part of "NM culture." There are after all a ton of PhDs at the labs there. But I've also met people who describe moving out of NM as their main life accomplishment.

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>>2853937
There’s plenty of greenery in and around Albuquerque and Santa Fe

>>2853935
If you’re 20s and don’t have kids, do it.
If you have kids and/or you’re 30s, don’t do it.

Do not move to New Mexico. This state is a poor, poorly run disaster.

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/two-thirds-of-new-mexico-doctors-considering-leaving-the-state-report-finds/article_3499639e-3aa4-4325-b0dc-f02cf32a0f48.html

New Mexico as a state is actually GOATed and has a lot to offer

ABQ tho... you need to romanticize the grime in my opinion.