re: New Mexico is just a weird state

I've been visiting near Albuquerque this week. I found TigerDroppings on Google and made an account just to say this. The infrastructure is genuinely damn bizarre. But I suppose if you have a lot of damn useless desert land to use, you are at liberty for putting a lot of it to good waste.

Most of New Mexico is very spread out and mostly accessible by car. The air quality sucks because: 1.) it's the desert 2.) and there are no vehicle inspections here. It is home to one of the most fatal highways in America. There are many lanes, they're wide as hell, and it's by a bunch of featureless desert plains. You're constantly driving.

The state has really favorable business taxes apparently which encourages a lot of R&D and tech here, plus there's military. And yeah, it's full of a lot of homeless people on the roads. Is it the weather? The benefits? I don't know why they don't just house them with all this useless land. You have reservations as well, some faring better than others.

My folks recently bought a newly developed home here by a freaking US highway, but also on the same road as a state rail station, so hey! you can easily walk there. But like I said, the land use is freaking ridiculous here. But uh, I guess it's cheap, and plentiful, and the taxes are low.

So it leads to a lot of strange culture clashes.

But yeah, can't knock the scenery, right?