Sorry, I thought I saw you post about living in Northern CA. My mistake.
Hopefully after first of the year, I’ll be one of your New Mexico Neighbors.
PS, I will bring the one set of teeth from Appalachia. :)
Thats mean. you can’t hood the teeth like that. The Children man! What of the children!?!?!?!? ;)
I lived in Cali a couple times. Once in the late 70s as a kid and later for a couple months for a job that temporarily there. So/Cal both times. Orange and Riverside areas. It was still OK in the 70s but by 2K it was just nuts. I’m on the border now in AZ and Needles across the river is like crossing the DMZ into Nork.
I wish the few remaining conservatives there would realize that they will never get their state back and head east.
NM is nice overall. Certainly cooler. HaZ some issues but then so do we with being californicated. There are far worse places to live ;)