There are reasons people retire here.
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4/14/2019
I was born and raised (through first year of college) in Las Cruces. I left in 1972 to finish school and join the military. In the intervening years I have lived in various parts of Texas, Georgia, South Carolina, Colorado, and northern New Mexico. I also spent a year in Northeast Africa and have spent extended periods in other parts of the United States without moving there. During all that time, I continued to make frequent visits back to Las Cruces to visit family. My wife and I have been fortunate enough to spend the past three years nine months traveling the country full-time in an RV. During these travels we've always been on the lookout for "that place" to settle back down when we come off the road. After considering all the places we've visited, going through our criteria, and weighing all the options, it looks like it's going to be Las Cruces again. Every place has its trade-offs or pros and cons, but Las Cruces has a good mix of low cost of living, good weather, low risk for natural disasters, affordable housing, and other retirees with whom to make friends and spend time. There's an international airport an hour away and sub-specialty health care in El Paso if Las Cruces doesn't have what you need. We're not big city folk... been there, done that. Cruces is about as big as we want to deal with as we move into our later years.
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