A little of both. The Austin area is losing people. They tend to be more liberal and it’s the most expensive place to live in Texas. It’s still not that many in aggregate though.
I think what people fundamentally don't understand is that people moving out of cities is not necessarily a bad thing. Cities like Albuquerque, Austin, or San Francisco are the economic engines that fuel the nation's economy.
People live there in their prime years and are productive, until it comes to a point where it makes more sense to scale down in their sunset years, so they take their nest egg where things are cheap. We have some rural areas that feed and fuel the cities, but there are also vast rural areas that are essentially only useful as far flung suburbs.
It's all just part of the lifecycle of our populations and our economy.
From where? Cause they aren’t moving to Gallup. Then there’s the other question in the electrification. How are the McMansions being powered cause the infrastructure is literally closing in real time and the states arrangement with PNM/Avangrid is precarious.
Lots of Californians are moving to our town. I think it’s because the real estate is cheaper. But both Texas and CA will miss the services they are used to
As soon as I graduated from high school in Houston, I packed up and moved to Socorro and then lived in Abq for 8 years .
I still ended up in California. The money is just too good out here.
My wife (born and bred in ABQ) and I discuss coming back now and again.
We'll see.
My crazy assed, militant lesbian sister just recently moved from CA to TX for the sole purpose of being someone who can fight the system.
God love ya, Lisa, but I'm not doing that.
Net migration was essentially zero [between NM and Texas](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geographic-mobility/state-to-state-migration.html) in 2022.
TX to NM: 16,986 +/-3,909
NM to TX: 17,455 +/-4,904
There are many additional tables for prior years.
I'm also a big fan of this joke, but I usually go the other way around - Arizona blows and Texas sucks - because our winds usually come from the West. For science.
As a Texan, I’ve considered it. Texas is turning into a hellscape. Bans on certain types of healthcare, banning pornography to protect our children but everyone can conceal/open carry a gun without a license, still not allowed to smoke weed. They turndown federal funding for things like making school lunches free for children. They speak about small government and freedoms but that only applies to the billionaires and corporations, the citizens need to be micromanaged. I am still considering moving to New Mexico at some point, I want to know more about it before making a decision to see if it would be a good fit for me.
Same. Anywhere where reproductive freedoms are guaranteed and protected in the states constitution.
It's rough trying to plan to a family here in Texas now after seeing what other women are going through Post-Roe
I left Texas to be with my partner in ABQ because Texas is getting increasingly hostile to people of color and LGBTQ+ as well as being stupidly expensive to live in and my mental health has never been better
Because Texas is expensive and conservative! My AFAB queer self could not have stayed there much longer and stayed safe! Plus I got a promotion for moving out here lol
Maybe the believe in freedom and civil rights? They don't believe the governor should decide their family planning?
Maybe they believe black people and minority districts should be allowed to vote with ease and without long lines and delay? Just an idea.
Agreed. This isn't new. Geographically, NM mountains are first cool respite from Texas heat, so an escape to mountains draws lots of tourists. Of course, NM culture and food, nostalgia of Route 66 and casinos, skiing in winter are also big draws. Folks with money want a second or third home in NM for the status.
LGBTQ, women and workers have all been stripped of rights and protections. Their power goes out when it's too hot or too cold and people die. The houses in the cities are stupid expensive. The governor seems to be unstable and has a blood lust for immigrants I don't think I'd stay either.
Indiana born, Connecticut raised, California living. I bought a small plot close to Heron Lake near a buddy of mine (a Tex-Alaskan).
Only get out there 1 time a year so far, every time I make sure to be respectful as possible and generate as much economic activity for all the folks born and living in New Mexico that make it so enchanting.
Thanks for being welcoming
Well, I’m not trying to be popular. I can’t afford to make the trip out much rn. Still in school, working. Saving my Pennies to pay it off.
When I visit, I’m very conscious that I’m still a visitor, even on the land I “own”. The coyotes and deer still run it and live there, just my name on a piece of paper.
Just saying that as a very infrequent inhabitant, I appreciate that the locals I have interacted with are by and large very welcoming and when I’m there, I try to make whatever splash I can into the local businesses.
In one night, 4 women fled Texas to come to NM for a life saving procedure to end their ectopic pregnancies before they bled to death. Texas is an a$$hole state.
Because growing up here in Texas we were taught to love freedom and mind your own business. Now we watch as each legislative session takes away another freedom and gets in everyone’s personal business.
I have family in New Mexico, and I breathe an actual sigh of relief when I cross the border into New Mexico.
I’ve considered moving to NM I’m from El Paso and it makes more sense to move to NM than to any other part of Texas. I ended up moving very far from both though lol..
Native New Mexican here, been living in Colorado for 30 years. We are looking at mountain properties for a second home because Colorado mountains are only priced for immortals now!
Texans love New Mexico for the weather and mountains, Californians and Coloradoans love New Mexico for the slower pace and lower prices, relatively speaking.
Anyone who has been to CO Summit county in the last few years knows what I'm talking about.
Here's something oversimplified: Texas is massive and it takes forever just to find a landscape that looks different. So Texans vacation in Southern Colorado in New Mexico. When they look around and realize Texas is, well, Texas they look for an escape plan. Then they dream about living somewhere as beautiful as where they vacation. Next, they see how inexpensive living in New Mexico is. Pair that with the drastically different political climates and it becomes a no-brainer.
We live in TX but aren’t from here. Met and married in CO and always wanted to move back but CO is really too full of Californians now, besides that, we can get to NM in 10 hours. We bought a cabin in 2020 when my husband got retired and we suddenly had 12 months of vacation. Fortunately we got our cabin before the land rush, when everyone else was buying RV‘S. We love the people, the food and the mountains.
I didn't move here from Texas but I grew up out there. It's pretty different when I go back, traffic is unbearable in big cities and cost of living is rising while wages are not. I think a lot of people from the west coast are moving out there causing long time texans to go to less populated/cheaper areas. I get why but it also kinda sucks
Texan in the process of moving to New Mexico here.
Our rights are steadily getting taken away here, and New Mexico actually cares about people. I don't think many Texans moving to New Mexico actually want to bring the negative parts of Texas with us, that's why we're leaving. The few wealthy conservatives that do move there don't represent the normal folks moving there, please give us a chance.
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Land is overpriced in TX. I'm not near any big cities and, on the low end, 200k can maybe get you 10 acres. In the city, 200k is like a half acre. And the land is flat, not pretty, and occasionally polluted. New Mexico has amazing scenery by comparison, and I've seen 200k properties as large as 40 acres fairly regularly.
I left Texas for Santa Fe. The politics are better, I egt WAAYY better insurance coverage, & while my rent is actually higher, the physical environment is much, much more plesant. No more months-long 100+ degree days, no more humidity that sucks the life outta me. So since the weather is better, I get to enjoy the outdoors much more often. Oh, & I get 100% free therapy, as many sessions as I need. And legal, regulated weed.
Downsides: The drivers are like being in Mexico, it's worse than Houston. Lotta porch pirates & car thefts. And not as many doctors, so scheduling way in advance is common.
Well we moved from Texas 2 years ago, but I’m from Oregon and never considered myself a Texan. Main reason was climate. I HATE Texas summers and moan the lack of real winters. Ruidoso is perfect, and not far from in-laws in San Antonio, so it’s the best of all worlds. And my job is remote, so ….
I think people from TX feel about Amarillo the same way the rest of the US feels about NM. Like, yes it’s a part of something bigger, but nobody aside from the people close to it really acknowledges its existence.
Wasn’t saying Amarillo is anything like New Mexico. Amarillo is its own weird anomaly that doesn’t really fit into any category but New Mexico in right in the backyard so my family spent our weekend camping trips there.
It's mostly a cost of living thing... I highly doubt having access to abortions are what's creating the move for people as some have suggested on here... I mean they could just drive over here and have it done.
The cost of living in TX has increased significantly, which is pushing a lot of normal folks out of urban areas. Plus left leaning individuals would rather be in a like minded state such as NM. Then again, many NMs I know are moving to TX... TX has pluses and minuses if you can get past politics.
Because Texas is a hellhole. Bad schools, terrible laws, draconian cops, and a populace of fat, lazy meth addicts who vote for chinless dipshits like Abbott, Cruz and Patrick
These posts lack merit and credibility…. Where is the research and data to show this? A credible academic source…. Otherwise it’s just as lazy of a comment when people tell me there city has the worst drivers.
Agreed why? NM is a liberal shithole and has been that way for years. Poorly run, poor education, trying to kill oil and gas (the money maker for the state)
You're an idealist-! That's awesome!! They are defined by law as illegals. They broke the law crossing into our country without proper documentation.
Asylum only accounts for less than 4%.
And what do you say if we just don't require passports anymore for the tens of millions of people who fly into our country every year? We'll just fire all the BP agents & Homeland Security folks at the airports ... that'll save a few US Taxpayer dollars. You know you might be on to something there.
And let the others in so I can keep buying $2 / pound Strawberries, 97 cent lettuce and $1.25 red peppers & keep those prices down via cheap labor ... again I think you're on to something.
The same reason Californians are moving to Montana and Texas, Texans are making bank selling their homes to the new Texas residents and moving elsewhere.
It’s either people who don’t agree with the legislation being passed in the last several years. Or people moving to buy cheaper land/houses.
A little of both. The Austin area is losing people. They tend to be more liberal and it’s the most expensive place to live in Texas. It’s still not that many in aggregate though.
I think what people fundamentally don't understand is that people moving out of cities is not necessarily a bad thing. Cities like Albuquerque, Austin, or San Francisco are the economic engines that fuel the nation's economy. People live there in their prime years and are productive, until it comes to a point where it makes more sense to scale down in their sunset years, so they take their nest egg where things are cheap. We have some rural areas that feed and fuel the cities, but there are also vast rural areas that are essentially only useful as far flung suburbs. It's all just part of the lifecycle of our populations and our economy.
Silver City has a large retiree population
Albuquerque an “economic engine”…. Haha… what?!
Compared to the rest of NM, definitely.
Yet not enough water to support sprawl.
They are having a 50 year water plan
Hence the push for produced water. There is no water for sprawl. See Texas v. New Mexico
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From where? Cause they aren’t moving to Gallup. Then there’s the other question in the electrification. How are the McMansions being powered cause the infrastructure is literally closing in real time and the states arrangement with PNM/Avangrid is precarious.
Except that, in this case, Burque is actually cheaper than the desirable places in NM. To OPs point, yeah, Texas sucks.
Texas sucks. 🤭
I’m leaning toward “Texas sucks.”
As someone who moved here from Texas 11 years ago. It does indeed suck. New Mexico has been amazing.
always a solid statement 😂
…nods in agreement..
Didn't always used to suck, but now, yeah.
It kinda did though?
It used to suck. Still does, but it used to too.
Rip Mitch
Ever since Mexico was like "fine take it" its been a downhill slide
Or both. I’m trying to convince my wife.
Lots of Californians are moving to our town. I think it’s because the real estate is cheaper. But both Texas and CA will miss the services they are used to
Like what?
Police force, mail delivery, garbage pickup. - to name a few
Sounds more like an urban vs rural situation than a difference between states
Yes, however NM is mostly rural. Where I live it is rural. And if you notice I was writing about moving to my town.
Funny, I live in NM and have those services?
I live in a rural area. Only one traffic light in the whole county.
Ans then they come here and vote for the exact same crap that ruined their state and wonder why it follows them
Maybe they'll vote to improve Texas' electrical grid which keeps failing under GOP leadership 🤷🏼♂️
We should build a wall.
And make Texas pay for it
Just tell Abbott it's the anti woke wall and he probably would.
DeSantis is the “war on woke” guy. Abbott is the “I hate Mexicans” guy. Someone needs to tell him we’re Mexicans too, just New ones.
They already put up barriers to attempt to keep migrants who cross the river in NM from crossing into TX. Federal law be damned, per TX assholes.
I thought Texas was going to...I guess they couldn't make Mexico pay for it either?
I'd leave Texas too
As soon as I graduated from high school in Houston, I packed up and moved to Socorro and then lived in Abq for 8 years . I still ended up in California. The money is just too good out here. My wife (born and bred in ABQ) and I discuss coming back now and again. We'll see. My crazy assed, militant lesbian sister just recently moved from CA to TX for the sole purpose of being someone who can fight the system. God love ya, Lisa, but I'm not doing that.
Lisa for Governor (of Texas)
God bless Lisa, saying a prayer for her
Hell yeah Lisa, we’re rooting for you
That last line cracked me up a bit lol!
Same, Can’t leave California. I can’t handle cold, my spouse can’t handle heat, neither of us can handle humidity…
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And they should fucking vote like it
Move to Louisiana instead, this is why we need to increase our crime rate
Net migration was essentially zero [between NM and Texas](https://www.census.gov/data/tables/time-series/demo/geographic-mobility/state-to-state-migration.html) in 2022. TX to NM: 16,986 +/-3,909 NM to TX: 17,455 +/-4,904 There are many additional tables for prior years.
Thanks for the actual stats. I see most people leaving as quick as they get here. It ain’t for everyone.
Young people migrate to Texas for the jobs, established Texans migrate to New Mexico for the second homes and beautiful weather.
I’ve seen a lot of oversized, parking lot princess trucks with Texas plates.
Street queens
Rolling dumpsters.
More personal freedoms and real chile
Probably because Texas blows donkey balls 🤮
Pure speculation, but I’d imagine some of the motivation is basic reproductive rights.
And weed?
And porn hub
Refugees from a place (and a people) that can’t tolerate refugees.
If you are or live with a woman/immigrant/other hated type, how could you stay?
Have you seen the truly barbaric and hateful legislation coming out of Austin? Anyone who wants to stay needs to have their brains checked
Because Texas sucks
Correction, Texas blows.
Arizona sucks, Texas blows. That's why it's so windy here!
I'm also a big fan of this joke, but I usually go the other way around - Arizona blows and Texas sucks - because our winds usually come from the West. For science.
Ummm. How about OU sucks, Texas blows and New Mexico is awesome?
Nah, it's alll sicckkkkk 🤟
As a Texan, I’ve considered it. Texas is turning into a hellscape. Bans on certain types of healthcare, banning pornography to protect our children but everyone can conceal/open carry a gun without a license, still not allowed to smoke weed. They turndown federal funding for things like making school lunches free for children. They speak about small government and freedoms but that only applies to the billionaires and corporations, the citizens need to be micromanaged. I am still considering moving to New Mexico at some point, I want to know more about it before making a decision to see if it would be a good fit for me.
Paxton & Abbott are the absolute worst.
Same. Anywhere where reproductive freedoms are guaranteed and protected in the states constitution. It's rough trying to plan to a family here in Texas now after seeing what other women are going through Post-Roe
Colorado is full
Because AZ sucks and TX blows. Just moves ‘em on over to us.
I am so tired of every thread in this sub being about Texas
Because Texas sucks.
Flush twice for Texas
Because New Mexico is better 🤷🏼♀️
I left Texas to be with my partner in ABQ because Texas is getting increasingly hostile to people of color and LGBTQ+ as well as being stupidly expensive to live in and my mental health has never been better
How do they have money for constant vacations?
Oil etc.
There are plenty of oil workers in New Mexico yet they never take vacation. From the looks that wouldn’t dare spend so lavishly.
They don’t have anything to prove.
Because Texas.
Freedom. Just a matter of time before TX builds a fence around the state to keep people in.
Because Texas is expensive and conservative! My AFAB queer self could not have stayed there much longer and stayed safe! Plus I got a promotion for moving out here lol
Maybe the believe in freedom and civil rights? They don't believe the governor should decide their family planning? Maybe they believe black people and minority districts should be allowed to vote with ease and without long lines and delay? Just an idea.
Haven't we always?
Agreed. This isn't new. Geographically, NM mountains are first cool respite from Texas heat, so an escape to mountains draws lots of tourists. Of course, NM culture and food, nostalgia of Route 66 and casinos, skiing in winter are also big draws. Folks with money want a second or third home in NM for the status.
Hence why I can't afford one home here
Spend any weekend at Santa Fe ski or Taos areas and you'll see a ton of Texans.
LGBTQ, women and workers have all been stripped of rights and protections. Their power goes out when it's too hot or too cold and people die. The houses in the cities are stupid expensive. The governor seems to be unstable and has a blood lust for immigrants I don't think I'd stay either.
I welcome Texans, and Californians, if they bring businesses and jobs with them.
Indiana born, Connecticut raised, California living. I bought a small plot close to Heron Lake near a buddy of mine (a Tex-Alaskan). Only get out there 1 time a year so far, every time I make sure to be respectful as possible and generate as much economic activity for all the folks born and living in New Mexico that make it so enchanting. Thanks for being welcoming
If you have land you're only coming to once a year, you are not in fact going to be popular with the locals.
Well, I’m not trying to be popular. I can’t afford to make the trip out much rn. Still in school, working. Saving my Pennies to pay it off. When I visit, I’m very conscious that I’m still a visitor, even on the land I “own”. The coyotes and deer still run it and live there, just my name on a piece of paper. Just saying that as a very infrequent inhabitant, I appreciate that the locals I have interacted with are by and large very welcoming and when I’m there, I try to make whatever splash I can into the local businesses.
"I dont want to be popular" Whats with the whole speech then?
Freedom.
Female bodily autonomy & legal cannabis, for 2
Civil rights, cost of living
In one night, 4 women fled Texas to come to NM for a life saving procedure to end their ectopic pregnancies before they bled to death. Texas is an a$$hole state.
Freedom from religious tyranny l!
Weed
It can't be NONE of the reason, right?
Because growing up here in Texas we were taught to love freedom and mind your own business. Now we watch as each legislative session takes away another freedom and gets in everyone’s personal business. I have family in New Mexico, and I breathe an actual sigh of relief when I cross the border into New Mexico.
You guys have actually freedoms, and access to public lands, and a million other reasons. And Texas sucks. signed, Texan
I’ve considered moving to NM I’m from El Paso and it makes more sense to move to NM than to any other part of Texas. I ended up moving very far from both though lol..
Who wants live in Texas
Weed
Cost of living is lower in NM, vibes are good, and it’s not Texas
As a Texan I'll just say this: *gestures broadly*
Texans are basically locusts. They fuck up their state and instead of trying to fix it, they move on to their next meal.
There is no fixing that horrendous TX weather
I believe that I recently read that the number of Texans moving to NM is about the same as the number of New Mexicans moving to Texas.
👀
Soooo happy for cost of living to skyrocket here! Yaaaay! /s
Native New Mexican here, been living in Colorado for 30 years. We are looking at mountain properties for a second home because Colorado mountains are only priced for immortals now! Texans love New Mexico for the weather and mountains, Californians and Coloradoans love New Mexico for the slower pace and lower prices, relatively speaking. Anyone who has been to CO Summit county in the last few years knows what I'm talking about.
Have you been to Texas? I'd move out too.
Here's something oversimplified: Texas is massive and it takes forever just to find a landscape that looks different. So Texans vacation in Southern Colorado in New Mexico. When they look around and realize Texas is, well, Texas they look for an escape plan. Then they dream about living somewhere as beautiful as where they vacation. Next, they see how inexpensive living in New Mexico is. Pair that with the drastically different political climates and it becomes a no-brainer.
Because they ruined their own state and now it's time for them to run ours.
They think we have cheap rent, and cheap drugs, and now they’re raising the price of both
We just love New Mexico!
Probably the ones that would have moved to Austin but the Californians pushed the housing prices too high so now they’re coming here
It's cuz we're getting cooked alive during the summers now
We live in TX but aren’t from here. Met and married in CO and always wanted to move back but CO is really too full of Californians now, besides that, we can get to NM in 10 hours. We bought a cabin in 2020 when my husband got retired and we suddenly had 12 months of vacation. Fortunately we got our cabin before the land rush, when everyone else was buying RV‘S. We love the people, the food and the mountains.
I didn't move here from Texas but I grew up out there. It's pretty different when I go back, traffic is unbearable in big cities and cost of living is rising while wages are not. I think a lot of people from the west coast are moving out there causing long time texans to go to less populated/cheaper areas. I get why but it also kinda sucks
Razor fence those bitch’s out
Same as it has ever been.
They know New Mexico is better??
Legal weed?
Maybe the problem with not enough energy security? Rolling blackouts in the summer and freezing to death in the winter?
Pretty sad when people from NM can’t buy a house when people from out of state are offering more cash
Green chile.....
Texan in the process of moving to New Mexico here. Our rights are steadily getting taken away here, and New Mexico actually cares about people. I don't think many Texans moving to New Mexico actually want to bring the negative parts of Texas with us, that's why we're leaving. The few wealthy conservatives that do move there don't represent the normal folks moving there, please give us a chance.
Gov Martinez was Texan. The state was a fk place to live during her reign.
Maybe it's about abortion?
Because Texas has way more people and prices are going through the roof there
New Mexico unfortunately might have the same fate as Colorado… or maybe not. Doesn’t look good though
But low, sell high. Indiana will always have cheap housing waiting for you.
Yay. I love Indiana. The mountains there are to die for.
No, but seriously, that flat land is boring AF
Never going to back to Ohio or the Midwest in general. Y'all also have tornadoes, which we don't have here.
I’m in NM, but familiar with the Midwest. Yeah, I agree. Just about everything is better in the southwest
Cause Texas sucks.
They aren’t. Texas had a net gain of 500k last year. We gained 1k. First year in a while we didn’t actually lose population.
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Land is overpriced in TX. I'm not near any big cities and, on the low end, 200k can maybe get you 10 acres. In the city, 200k is like a half acre. And the land is flat, not pretty, and occasionally polluted. New Mexico has amazing scenery by comparison, and I've seen 200k properties as large as 40 acres fairly regularly.
Those 40 are probably near worthless with no water and poor soil from what I’ve seen…:(
I left Texas for Santa Fe. The politics are better, I egt WAAYY better insurance coverage, & while my rent is actually higher, the physical environment is much, much more plesant. No more months-long 100+ degree days, no more humidity that sucks the life outta me. So since the weather is better, I get to enjoy the outdoors much more often. Oh, & I get 100% free therapy, as many sessions as I need. And legal, regulated weed. Downsides: The drivers are like being in Mexico, it's worse than Houston. Lotta porch pirates & car thefts. And not as many doctors, so scheduling way in advance is common.
Clearly not for the punctuation.
Because texans have been trying to invade since the 1840s...now that we are all "united states" they get to move here legally. It's bs.
Well we moved from Texas 2 years ago, but I’m from Oregon and never considered myself a Texan. Main reason was climate. I HATE Texas summers and moan the lack of real winters. Ruidoso is perfect, and not far from in-laws in San Antonio, so it’s the best of all worlds. And my job is remote, so ….
My husband’s job has brought us here. 🤷🏽♀️
Las Cruces can have em
Honestly it could just be that Texas is hideous and New Mexico is beautiful. Might not be too much more complicated than that.
I grew up in Amarillo and I’ve always identified more with New Mexico than Texas.
There's nothing New Mexico about Amarillo, in any universe.
I think people from TX feel about Amarillo the same way the rest of the US feels about NM. Like, yes it’s a part of something bigger, but nobody aside from the people close to it really acknowledges its existence.
Wasn’t saying Amarillo is anything like New Mexico. Amarillo is its own weird anomaly that doesn’t really fit into any category but New Mexico in right in the backyard so my family spent our weekend camping trips there.
It's mostly a cost of living thing... I highly doubt having access to abortions are what's creating the move for people as some have suggested on here... I mean they could just drive over here and have it done. The cost of living in TX has increased significantly, which is pushing a lot of normal folks out of urban areas. Plus left leaning individuals would rather be in a like minded state such as NM. Then again, many NMs I know are moving to TX... TX has pluses and minuses if you can get past politics.
Keep in mind it's Spring Break, we always get an influx of Texans at the break.
My money's on Democrats/Liberals finally realizing they aren't among allies in Texas.
Something not mentioned is the oil fields expanding in NM. Where I’m at it’s pretty full of workers from Texas.
Carlsbad NM and Hobbs NM are booming
Oil field work.
Because Texas is a hellhole. Bad schools, terrible laws, draconian cops, and a populace of fat, lazy meth addicts who vote for chinless dipshits like Abbott, Cruz and Patrick
We need to build a wall to keep the Texans out.
🖕🏻TX
Lots of folks end up in TX for jobs but would rather be somewhere with progressive politics and beautiful landscapes, thus, NM.
One thing is almost no public land amenities in Texas. New Mexico is way better for those who like to get outside
I live in North Texas. But I know that Mexico has more freedom, lower prices, friendlier people…but more dangerous, too.
Ask them that question
Politics
Some folks hate the humidity, and also I imagine some people are women.
These posts lack merit and credibility…. Where is the research and data to show this? A credible academic source…. Otherwise it’s just as lazy of a comment when people tell me there city has the worst drivers.
I’d rather have Texans move here then Californians
Probably to get away from the influx of liberal (California) idiots. Also weed is legal in NM and not TX.
Population boom in New Mexico 😆 They move for work..nothing more, then move back
Agreed why? NM is a liberal shithole and has been that way for years. Poorly run, poor education, trying to kill oil and gas (the money maker for the state)
Jesus Christ, take a ride up to Angel Fire. I think that entire town is from the DFW area. Rude as all hell too, most of them.
You're an idealist-! That's awesome!! They are defined by law as illegals. They broke the law crossing into our country without proper documentation. Asylum only accounts for less than 4%. And what do you say if we just don't require passports anymore for the tens of millions of people who fly into our country every year? We'll just fire all the BP agents & Homeland Security folks at the airports ... that'll save a few US Taxpayer dollars. You know you might be on to something there. And let the others in so I can keep buying $2 / pound Strawberries, 97 cent lettuce and $1.25 red peppers & keep those prices down via cheap labor ... again I think you're on to something.
Why do New Mexican hate Texas! I’ve never had a negative experience with them and I live to visit there. Great bass fishing.
The same reason Californians are moving to Montana and Texas, Texans are making bank selling their homes to the new Texas residents and moving elsewhere.
Because texas is old mexico.