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I’m looking to sell my house in Portland Or and Palm Springs CA.
I really like Bend Oregon, reno NV, and Prescott AZ but my dollar just doesn’t go a long ways there .
How is the work in NM? I’m 41 and still need to work to take care of the family. I’m in construction/GC
Please feel free to give me pros and cons

Lots of places around Albuquerque are not so good.
Kinda like Portland.

Albuquerque is a [bleep]. I used to travel there for work quite a bit, can’t think of anything positive to say about it.

Crime.

It's pretty much a schidt-hole with low wages and high crime.

Go 50 miles east of Reno to live, and your dollar goes farther. Some major commercial development is moving a bit on East of Reno. There's a lot of new construction and money to be made by someone with those skills and some business smarts.

For a nice documentary on the positives and negatives of the Albuquerque metro area...


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Lots of drugs and crime in Albuquerque, and the state government is terrible.

New Mexico has been in a lockdown for ages now thanks to their governor. She has about destroyed small business.

If you want stable opportunity, I'd look elsewhere.

Crime index Alb 2018 = 710.3
US Average = 274.0

http://www.city-data.com/city/Albuquerque-New-Mexico.html

Lots more info on that site, like average commute times, etc.

Your choice, but it's not one I'd like to make. Wife and I considered some transfers there, then looked.

Windridge has an idea what's going on in the Reno area, you might spend a minute looking into towns east of there. I think he's alluding to Fallon and such.

Have you looked into other "mountain towns" in AZ? Or NM? You may find some with the growth rate you need in your line of work to keep busy. And selling places in Potlandia and Palm Springs, if you have any equity, you may just make out well.

Good luck.........I guess.

2000 I moved from Oregon to Albuquerque. Wife and I had good jobs in place waiting for us. We had looked at areas in Arizona, which I liked better than NM, wife didn’t.

At the time, IIRC, NM was one of the poorest States in the country. People were cool. A lot of drunks and people with handicaps it seemed. My wife was a RN and maybe after 5 months there she mentioned all the fûcked up people we’d see around town and in stores. Seemed like more than normal.

I met with a good client at Sandia Labs. I mentioned to him that the place seemed to have more than its share of people with outward signs of disabilities. He said “what do you expect”,,,”this is one polluted State from all the military testing that was done here”.

We lasted a year...Wife hated it ! I was ok, there. We had a nice place in the highlands in Moriarty, NM with acreage.

Arizona would have been a better place to move, at least back them

YMMV

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I was in Albuquerque 12 years ago for 2 weeks staying in a hotel.

There are bars on the windows.... that means crime.

There are gated communities there.... that means crime.

There was a lot of grunting on the other side of my hotel wall..... that means sex.

Car theft capital of America. Absolute schithole. My ex wife keeps threatening to move there and try to take my son since its "cheap." I think the #1 pastime there is sniffing spraypaint.

Little hottie I knew back in jr high lives there. She's a lawyer. She's also a frothing-at-the-mouth liberal who specializes in getting illegals legal. Unreal. If she's representative of NM...in a word, no.

I stepped over a drugged up bum in an Albuquerque McDonalds foyer one time to get a Big Mac. No different than any other city, IME.
I've done the same in Boise, Spokane, Reno and plenty of other places.

Spent a couple of months one winter on a splicing project. Weather was warm. Route 66 passed through town and some landmarks still remain. Interesting petroglyphs (ancient rock carvings) west of town. Food was hit or miss...no middle ground. Same for housing...really nice or dirt yards.

Lots of red light cameras everywhere. All the fenced yards seemed to be cinder block topped with embedded broken glass. The show Breaking Bad made it look better than it really is. Work trucks routinely broken into.

It's cheap for a reason.

Except for SD, anytime you say "she" and "governor" in the same sentence, It's a klusterfuk.

They had a cool biplane hanging in the airport last time I was there!

Got good friends in NM, poor state, no jobs. Not a place I would go to look for work.

Schit hole.

Isn’t it basically a Rez?

I believe Ilya Koshkin moved there from Kookyfornia last year. I'd PM him and ask his thoughts.