I’m in Abq within walking distance of UNM. So, pretty much Ground Zero for woke, outside Santa Fe and Taos. I am an urban sort of person. I doubt I would be that content too far from I-25. In any event I would be under a blue state government.

New Mexico, so far, has avoided descending into pure blue crazy. There’s not enough money here for people, even Democrats, to go totally crazy.

I am, or was, part of a serious political family in Santa Fe, Democrats. They disowned me and I’ve disowned them back. I was born in Santa Fe. I thought I might get back to my roots here. It hasn’t worked out.

Thanks for your concern. How’s by you?

And people would notice. They have nothing better to do.

And the cops will help. They have nothing better to do.

I think it depends on whether the home is occupied at the time (although the owner just going out to do an errand doesn’t count as unoccupied).

Ended up in Dixie county because Property Taxes were super low – like a third of what they were in Marion county.

Chattanooga, Tennessee is an interesting place. It is beautiful, geography-wise. Weather isn’t bad. It’s a gigacity and growing tech hub. Lots of young people, but old bones, characterwise. A river town. A mountain town. No state income tax.

huxley, the North Carolina mountains are nice, if you don’t want to live where there are alligators. Not Asheville, which is leftist and crime-ridden. We are probably moving to Hendersonville in a year or two.