• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    10 hours ago

    Not gonna lie, that’s a pretty compelling reason to move to New Mexico. Santa Fe is also a pretty fun little town with a cool art scene and killer food. The classic car scene there is also pretty rad.

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      7 hours ago

      What I don’t understand is that New Mexico is such an outlier for shitty statistics as compared to other states, even blue ones. Like I feel nearly every ranking has New Mexico strangely near the bottom alongside the likes of Alabama and Mississippi. I’ve long wondered why that is.

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        6 hours ago

        Drive through New Mexico and it will become abundantly clear. There are only around 2 million people in the entire state. Half of the people live in 3 counties, and a lot of rest of the state is a whole lotta nothing, dying or dead towns, and single trailers separated by miles.