: where to live in nm/az?
RufusTheRam 12-12-2003, 07:08 PM myself and my roomate are considering moving to either arizona or new mexico within the year. so basically i'm looking for pros/cons of both places, what cities/towns to look at, etc. my roomate has just graduated from college and i will be in may, so keep in mind we'll be on a limited budget. job markets that are good would be great also, my roomate is an ME major and i'm tech ed. we'd like to be somewhere fairly rural/small but within an hour or less of a decent size city. so... thoughts, opinions, websites, etc??
Mike Catts 12-12-2003, 07:48 PM The Southern part of NM is a pretty nice place to live. Ya can go from an elevation of around 2,000 ft to over 9,000 feet in less than an hour depending on exactly where ya are. Las Cruces is ok, Alamogordo and the mountain area is better!
Gen. Nonsense 12-12-2003, 07:50 PM AZ sucks. Flagstaff is ungodly expensive, and the wage scale is crap, PHX metro is overcrowded, but housing is cheap...but with the pay scale here you can barley afford the houses. I dont know about Tucson. Oh yeah and its hot here
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stone 12-12-2003, 07:56 PM ivan u and nick better pack me along too, get me outta this mud hole
BackNBlackTJ 12-12-2003, 08:16 PM Tucson is cool, big city within minutes... rural all around. It's all desert rural though (you know, cactus and shit like that) and only 30 min. or so to some nasty trails out in Mammoth.
Bubba Ray Boudreaux 12-12-2003, 08:22 PM Well let's see........................
Stay away from anything north of Flagstaff, to include Holbrook and Winslow.
Avoid Ft. Sumner, NM..................
Originally posted by Gen. Nonsense
AZ sucks. Flagstaff is ungodly expensive, and the wage scale is crap, PHX metro is overcrowded, but housing is cheap...but with the pay scale here you can barley afford the houses. I dont know about Tucson. Oh yeah and its hot here
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Tucson's hot and theres nothign to do, no wheeling and it's all yuppies from CA these days
RufusTheRam 12-12-2003, 09:19 PM cool, good info so far...
CrashLL 12-12-2003, 11:42 PM Arizona sucks, and it's full!!! Sorry you can't move here, But I hear that NM is awesome!
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Pazuzu 12-13-2003, 01:28 AM Originally posted by CrashLL
Arizona sucks, and it's full!!! Sorry you can't move here, But I hear that NM is awesome!
Definitely, all of the cool people move to NM. Especially Abequerckeyeyue, as close to sceep's house as possible.
landusepbb 12-13-2003, 08:01 AM NW New Mexico (four corners) is where I live, and love it. Lots of wheeling, little known places like Chokecherry Canyon, the Rockgarden, the San Juan Mtns. of SW CO, Moab a couple hours away, etc.:D The Farmington/Aztec area is relatively inexpensive to live in, surrounded by millions of acres of BLM and USFS managed land. The main industry here is gas and oil, there is always work and some of it pays pretty good. That gangsta haven called Albuquerque is a little over 2 hrs away, Durango is a half hour from where I live north of Aztec. Elevation ranges from 5300 ft in Farmington itself, where I live its right around 6K. Farmington is the second fastest growing area in NM, in the past year or so they have expanded the mall, built a Best Buy and a Home Depot, and can't forget the Quiznos:D .
SanDiegoCJ 12-13-2003, 08:39 AM Originally posted by mike
Tucson's hot and theres nothign to do, no wheeling and it's all yuppies from CA these days
Yeah, like you. :flipoff2:
Originally posted by SanDiegoCJ
Yeah, like you. :flipoff2:
You can't prove that :flipoff2:
Pazuzu 12-13-2003, 10:41 AM Originally posted by mike
You can't prove that :flipoff2:
We don't have to, you show it with every post :p
Gen. Nonsense 12-13-2003, 11:23 AM Originally posted by Pazuzu
We don't have to, you show it with every post :p :laughing:
Originally posted by Pazuzu
We don't have to, you show it with every post :p
Oh I forgot about all the FIBs too :flipoff2:
RufusTheRam 12-13-2003, 10:28 PM ttt...:D
sceep 12-13-2003, 10:41 PM Originally posted by Pazuzu
Definitely, all of the cool people move to NM. Especially Abequerckeyeyue, as close to sceep's house as possible.
hmm....
Close eh? fawk.... I'll sell ya the house!! :flipoff2:
NM is where its at.
:D
SR5Dave 12-14-2003, 12:51 AM Originally posted by Gen. Nonsense
AZ sucks. Flagstaff is ungodly expensive
I must be missing something? From what I've been looking at housing isnt too bad at all. And its nice and cold :D Planning on being there in 6 months.
RufusTheRam 12-14-2003, 09:20 PM i guess housing costs are just relevant to what you're used to... anyone have any numbers?? i live inside the city here in raleigh, nc and a decent apartment or house rents for 400-500 a month per bedroom... we'd almost certainly be renting... forgot to ask about climate as well, i'm sure it's a wide range with such large elevation changes... we'd probably prefer a warmer area, cold is useless to me unless it snows every once in a while...
SR5Dave 12-14-2003, 09:24 PM Originally posted by RufusTheRam
i guess housing costs are just relevant to what you're used to... anyone have any numbers?? i live inside the city here in raleigh, nc and a decent apartment or house rents for 400-500 a month per bedroom... we'd almost certainly be renting... forgot to ask about climate as well, i'm sure it's a wide range with such large elevation changes... we'd probably prefer a warmer area, cold is useless to me unless it snows every once in a while...
I guess I didnt think of that.
Appt here: about the BARE minimum for crap in a crap neighborhood: 600-700. Anything decent: 900 in a nice neighborhood too: easily 1000+
Oh, thats one bedroom appts.
In Flag, CHEEEP land just outside of town, in town it gets a bit pricey, but still not bad at all. Http://www.realtor.com is a great site.
landusepbb 12-15-2003, 05:50 AM It really must be what you are used to, because anyone from this part of the country considers Flagstaff obscenely expensive.
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