Beautiful place but very difficult
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9/21/2021
Been here 9 years. Very difficult place. Price gouging, extremely expensive to live here. Crazy amounts of crime, cops do nothing. Very crowded, bad traffic and crazy drivers. Never seen more confrontational people anywhere. Don’t honk your horn or someone might pull a gun on you. They think that’s normal here. Lots of uninsured drivers, I’ve been hit 3 times while stopped in traffic and while parked. One was a hit-and-run, one broke bones and almost killed me. I’ve had stuff stolen out of my yard and the back of my truck, it’s great to go outside in the morning and see strange footprints around your truck and windows. I’ve ran thieves off my porch and my dogs have scared off sketchy people more than once. My neighborhood is considered pretty good for Carlsbad. This is not normal for such a small isolated area. Real high rates of domestic abuse and teen pregnancy and alcoholism and drug abuse. Not many options for healthcare, hope you like driving. Oilfield creates an impossible strain in the town, the jobs pay well but they make it suck to live here. Sex offenders moving into town by the hundreds to work in the field, with al the problems that brings. Random homeless dudes threatening to stab me. A different homeless dude in my yard screaming that he’s going to burn my family alive. The cops know and do nothing. This is a small town with big city problems and big city costs, but no big city amenities. There are good people here but they’re outnumbered. People who live here act like it’s normal, but it’s not. After I am done recovering from my surgery (from when a New Mexico driver plowed into a line of stopped cars in the highway and almost killed several people) I will be leaving. When I moved here someone told me that if you don’t adjust to the culture you’ll go crazy. And they were right. I spent years trying so hard to make it work but I can not stay any longer
Bryan | Carlsbad, NM