You're exactly right. The north eastern part of NM is heavily RAT infested. There's a lot of them where I live too, and I'm in the north western part of the state, close to the AZ border.
You got that right.
Santa Fe, Galisteo, Tesuque, etc. are infested with educated people. Whack jobs, I call them.
Opera, art and liberal politics.
Rest of NM is not so bad, though.
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