It's Albuquerque for us

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Tiger

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We just returned from visiting Reno, Las Cruces, El Paso and Albuquerque. It was a combination vacating and search for the city we want to retire to. For us it was Alb hands down. We loved the laid back atmosphere, variety of choices for shopping and the friendliness of the people.

To cap it off we got off of the plane Saturday night to be welcomed by 98 degrees of heat & humidity. I sweated more in the time it took to walk from the terminal to my son's car then in the two weeks in the desert.

We can't wait until the end of next year when we will make the move.
 
I love ABQ! I will be moving in October from San Diego to Clovis NM, so I will be frequenting ABQ quite a bit.

Good Luck!
 
Its on the visit list for retirement. I remember driving cross country and fell in love with the sunset. Congratulations on your fit :)
 
DW and I have spent the last 2 winters in Albuquerque (son is stationed at Kirtland AFB). We also found the people laid back and friendly. However, watch out for the drivers. Few driver use turn signals and DUIs (even the middle of the day) are extremely high.
 
packrat,

I live on Long Island (in a NYC suburb). Here stop signs are considered optional. We found the drivers to be much worse in El Paso.
 
We liked NM in general and did enjoy ABQ, but it is HOT there in the summer. Personally, I preferred the bits of the state north of Sante Fe - much cooler. But NM in general is real nice. And ABQ is cheap...
 
Tiger said:
We just returned from visiting Reno, Las Cruces, El Paso and Albuquerque. It was a combination vacating and search for the city we want to retire to. For us it was Alb hands down. We loved the laid back atmosphere, variety of choices for shopping and the friendliness of the people.

To cap it off we got off of the plane Saturday night to be welcomed by 98 degrees of heat & humidity. I sweated more in the time it took to walk from the terminal to my son's car then in the two weeks in the desert.

We can't wait until the end of next year when we will make the move.
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Tell us more about Albuquerque!!! Sounds like you really love the place. :D
 
We visited Albuquerque (the visit helped me finally learn to spell it) Las Cruces and Santa Fe in April to scout for a winter home
Las Cruces - Nice place! Too Small & Remote for us....
ALB - lot more to do..a possibility...close to the pueblos and great pottery...mellow people
Santa Fe nice place for a day visit from ALB too high falootin for us.

Thinking Austin now ...what ya think wahoo? ;)
 
Danny said:
Thinking Austin now ...what ya think wahoo? ;)
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Since the city's official motto is "Keep Austin Weird", sounds like a perfect fit! :)

Seriously, you don't want to move to TX, even to live in Austin. 25 years ago Austin was a great place to live and it probably still is if you are under 35. Unfortunately it has become a victim of it's own success. Rapid population growth has created a traffic nightmare. And I'd describe city politics as a mixture of SF, Chicago, Boston...and Guadalajara.
 
REWahoo said:
I believe that's spelled "$anta Fee". A very expensive place to live.
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Yep, and it has a nasty sprawl problem to boot. Wouldn't particularly wish to move there. But somewhere around Taos, ahhh...
 
Santa Fe is an expensive place to live. Austin is very humid. El Paso is an ugly city with no charm to it. Las Cruces - no there there, a very sleepy nothing to do and no shopping choices place. Also in a city of 80,000 there is one library which sums the place up for us.

In Albuquerque we saw very nice, new homes in the $200-225K range. The cost of food & gas is much lower then in the NYC area. The city has a very laid back feel. The shopping is more then adequate and the people are friendly. We felt very comfortable from the day we got there.
 
REWahoo said:
Since the city's official motto is "Keep Austin Weird", sounds like a perfect fit! :)

Seriously, you don't want to move to TX, even to live in Austin. 25 years ago Austin was a great place to live and it probably still is if you are under 35. Unfortunately it has become a victim of it's own success. Rapid population growth has created a traffic nightmare. And I'd describe city politics as a mixture of SF, Chicago, Boston...and Guadalajara.
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Takes one to know one brother...I know you are just trying to keep Tejas to yourself and not Chamber of Commerce it, I can read between the lines - reading those spaces you really make it sound good...if I just stay in South Austin Nov- April don't have to go anywhere except music & eat joints and take off for the hills or parts west when nature calls... I could be happy, I AM from Minnesota...doesn't take THAT much to make me happy in winter.
 
Last time I visited Austin, it took an hour to get from Round Rock to South Austin...
 
HFWR said:
Last time I visited Austin, it took an hour to get from Round Rock to South Austin...
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Goodness!

The last time I visited Austin was to spend a day at U.T. in 1987, and mostly what I recall was a freeway with two levels that was a little unnerving/confusing, and a hideous rush hour that just STOPPED traffic. So, I gave up and tried to drive again after rush hour.

It seemed nicer than other Texas cities at the time, though.
 
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