Review of Las%20Cruces, New Mexico

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A very backward state, a very boring place to live

- 1/6/2019
OK when I first moved here I loved it because of the friendly people and the beautiful mountains. But now that I have been here a year I can't wait to leave. Reason: for a city just over 100,000 people I can't believe how little there is to do. Except for having a great Saturday market downtown, which is one of the best that I have seen in any city that I've visited or lived there is very little to do here. Very few organizations that are active other then the drinking organizations like VFWs etc. The parks here are a joke, very few and very very small. No city music organizations either, even with the university here there is little coming from that either. All the usual national groups that I just assumed would have clubs here because of the city size aren't here, like the Sierra Club. Political organizations are pretty weak. So unless you want to hang out in a bar or sit in front of your TV then there's not much open here for you. The drive to El Paso is a nightmare because the road is so torn up with construction it takes so long to get there it's hardly worth the effort. So it's a good place for very old people who don't go anywhere. But note that it gets humid and hot in the summer and all the places are stuck in the 1960's with swam coolers so you don't get much relief from the humid heat unless you hang out in Walmart because I found that that was the only commercial place including the mall and movie theaters that had refrigerated air!!! Even many of the newer homes are still being built with the cheaper evaporative coolers! Unbelievable!! So note that if you have a young family that the schools here are rated some of the worst in the nation. And you will find a lot of medicare doctors but not many highly rated doctors though. Bottom line good professionals live in desirable communities and this is certainly not one because of the low education level of the schools and lack of community activities for its citizens. The economic outlook for this area is negative by every forecast that I have read because of these very reasons. Jobs will not come here unless and until local and state government puts money into the primary school system and raises the grade for the state. It now stands 48th in the nation for education. But just recently the state passed a funding bill to increase funding for the university system. How short-cited is this. This is throwing money out the window. Those students have to leave the state once they graduate because there are not good paying jobs in the state. But the lawmakers continue to vote down funding for primary education and promote their university system to the detriment of the economic future of the state! So not a lot of smart people running this place. So all the stats show a continued negative job growth rate, and negative economic indicators for the future. So this state is not getting any better anytime soon.
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