If you like sunshine, mountains, and wildlife+++
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2/9/2022
I live a few miles outside Capitan in a beautiful rural area. I joined here only to be able to counter the extremely negative reviews published. Capitan is my market area, and I know it in that fashion. I can say, ( and I have lived/worked all over the US and much of the world, the bitter reviews here are unreasonable. Yes the straight-line wind blows, winter and spring seeing 50mph commonly. It also blows across the huge regions of central NM and west Texas. But it has no tornadoes, floods, earthquakes or hurricanes. The residents, at least in a commercial setting, are friendly and helpful, ( as are most people in truly rural settings) I do not know the neighborhoods as well as a fulltimer, but never have had a negative interaction, and I have had many. In the neighborhoods people are slow to accept unless you have a reason to be there, but that is true all over the world. The market, the hardware/feed store, the restaurants are universally friendly, helpful, and economical compared to most of USA. Yes they are more friendly with the folks they grew up with, but gosh, what people in what place on earth are not? Yes far too many are sort of tribally right wing, but not in your face with it at least.
If you like sunshine, if you like dry air, gorgeous mountains and wildlife this is a great area, if you like lots of people, pollution, traffic and endless shopping choices, better move on.
Michael | Capitan, NM