[quote=squat250]in defense of albuqerque…it’s super cool town! …. I lived there 7 years and was so happy there. lots of cool people. great bicycling.
corrales village just north of albqueruqe is so awesome to live in –that’s the place to go if you go to abq.
my ultimate plan was to get back to albqueruque…but now i’m all transplanted into temecula so thats probably not going to happen. but I would be happy to spend my days there! it might technically be alittle ugly, but the air was good and the people were great![/quote]
I like ABQ as well, scaredy. It’s very clean and the city has done a lot in recent years with the southwestern decor of its overpasses and landscaping. Excepting for the “Lordsburg/Deming corridor” (near the int’l border), I think ALL of NM is nice. I’m not sure I’d want to live there though, only because with that type of high, dry climate, CO wins hands down because it has so much more of everything to offer. However, it is quite a bit more expensive to live in CO.
scaredy, for “retirement purposes,” I think ABQ and surrounds (even Santa Fe, Farmington or Aztec, NM) would be preferable to Temecula (but NOT the CA coast), simply due to having to deal with MUCH less people on a daily basis. All of these places have all the modern conveniences without the “captive audience” population.
For a person who “doesn’t get out much,” I just put another 3800+ miles on my vehicle a few weeks ago, again passing thru ABQ twice ;=].
