Discuss what its like to live in Las Cruces

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Discuss what its like to live in Las Cruces

[junebug]

I've read a lot of good things about New Mexico and Las Cruces in particular. The climate and mountains have a lot of appeal for me. Real estate prices in Las Cruces (at around $180,000) look like a bargain compared to places like Boulder or even Albuqurque. But i did see a comment from someone that they thought Las Cruces was too small in terms of the resources it offered. Shopping, libraries, culture were all second rate compared to the bright lights of Albuquerque. Anyone who has any insight on this - it would be appreciated!

[lindabird]

Here is a quote from another post i saw at Eons regarding the discussion between Las Cruces and Albuqueque. My friend LIGuy thinks Albuquerque is a lot nicer!

The Las Cruces Farmer's Market is a hype job. It is open two days a week Saturday and (I believe) Wednesday. We were only there during the week but we were told that the Market was a worthwhile visit so we went. There had to be more action in a cemetery. There were maybe 3 or 4 vendors and a few stores and all I saw was junk. If there was a down town area we must have missed it because I didn't see anything. I'm not saying the place was horrible but it was too quiet for a small city. A lot of the homes we saw were over a 15 minute drive to a supermarket and some places it was even further. But the homes that we looked at were quite nice and very reasonably priced. As I recall there was only one major shopping center in the whole area.

But there's more... Here's what another poster said about Las Cruces at Eons.com:

"....absolutely love the place.... there is (like many college towns) a great Arts community.... fantastic music... great food... reasonable prices.... I have spent considerable time there and never experienced crime or felt unsafe.... been coming here since 1987."

So you decide

[yssim918]

We just got back from a visit to Las Cruces and I guess we saw in it what lindabird didn't. We stayed at a wonderful place called ValuePlace where the manager was very friendly and helpful. I had left my laptop power cord at home and he called around and found me a used one. Also one day on his way into to work he stopped and picked us up some flyers of homes for sale. We decided to go from Wednesday to Wednesday so that we could go to some of the open houses on Sunday.
We were looking for an assisted living place for my mother-in-law so while there we visited 5 of them. We went without an appointment and all of the Directors welcomed us in gave us a tour and told us about their facility. They did not hurry us out and all were very friendly and helpful.

We met with one realtor who said she would not be able to take us around as she was flying out on Sunday to a conference. She introduced us to one of her associates and we ended up looking at a couple of houses with him She even called us from the airport on Sunday to see if her associate had taken good care of us.

Saturday we went yard saleing. We thought this was a great way to check out the neighborhoods. Every place we stopped people were more than happy to talk about Las Cruces and what a great place it is to live.

Later on Saturday we went to the Downtown Market. We must have spent over 3 hours there. There was the most awesome baked goods, homemade jams and jellies, jewelry, produce, etc. In order to be a vendor everything must be homemade. And the talent that some of the vendors have is utterly amazing. They had entertainment as well as food. And the vendors love to talk about their wares.

We found Las Cruces easy to get around and we loved Furr's Buffet. The WalMart is 3 times the size of our Super Walmart. We live a mile and a half from our Walmart and depending on the time of day it can take us 15 minutes to get there. They have all the stores and restaurants that we have plus more. We also checked out the Senior Center which offers many opportunities. Plus NMSU offers classes for Seniors.

All in all we found Las Cruces a very desirable place to live. Even though it is not a big city it is a friendly city.

[2putz]

I loved reading the above comments, because they are closer to my own opinions. However, these are comments I am passing along from a friend who just explored Las Cruces:
I take issue with this review in a couple of areas.
1. We looked at this area and liked it, but note:
2. The crime rate is because of proximity to el paso, not students.
3. We only found 3 adult 55+ communities and were too expensive. We kept hearing about a retirement area, but i don't know where they're living.
4. Sent an email to chamber of comm., re: crime rate - no response