A friend’s family moved to Albuquerque a couple of years ago. Back then, I’d told her I’d just read that crime was “way-up” in Albuquerque.
‘Doubt things have improved.
My first encounter with anyone from Albuquerque was a family that moved to a house a ways up the street from us. Why they came to Maine I’m not sure. This was in the late 1950s. Got to know the son pretty well and he was in my class. The first winter they disappeared. Turns out they left after they’d finished burning the wood furniture in the rental house.
Didn’t actually go to to Albuquerque until many years later (early 2000s) for a conference. Took the Mrs. She had a great time visiting the botanical garden and then we took a couple days to explore the surroundings. Lovely. But the city? Yuck.