Probably the safest place to live would be outside of a military base in a small town that is filled with those who serve the GIs, who rent homes to their families, who are retired from them, and a town that is remote from outsiders, which makes it more of an extension of the base than a real city.
New Mexico has plenty of towns like that which are isolated by miles of desert and 50 mile vistas with a couple of roads in and out, and not just military towns but also little towns that are made up largely of feds like Border Patrol, DEA, and others who own homes and are locals.
Water is and always has been the major problem with NM.