When people thought I was on vacation they were very friendly and helpful.
When I told them I was interested in possibly moving there they ceased being friendly and helpful almost instantly.
The change was so quick it was eerie.
Of course I also told them I was from California, so that probably didn't help either.
NM started becoming californicatd in the early to mid 1980s. When quoted prices on houses, real estate, ranches, etc. the Californians would simply whip out the check books and pay millions for what was thousands before. This is all business, of course, but people whose families had owned land for centuries were simply taxed off of it. There was resentment against moneyed Texans for the same reasons, but people said that the Texans were more vulgar about it.