No, I just it was a more amusing reason than NM being the state with the highest crime rate, 47th safest state, low number of cops, one of the worse public school systems, a large wealth gap, a fairly large amount of deaths from DWI per capita.
Top 10 reasons NOT to move to New Mexico. It has some of the worst towns in America.
That's all very true, and I certainly wish it would discourage more people from coming here. The price of housing in Santa Fe has gotten ridiculous with all the goddamn refugees from NY, PA, CA, Wa and OR. We met a couple from San Francisco who bought a million dollar-plus house for the absurd reason that they want to be here during opera season. (Absurd to me, anyway, though I admit that I first became attracted to the place during a visit to the Santa Fe Photo Workshops a couple of decades ago, which introduced me to the Canyon Road galleries.)
New Mexico is a kinda rough place, a frontier place, and has a number of built-in problems involving our strong mix of cultures in which none really dominates. New Mexico is more than half Hispanic (if you count the undocumented Hispanics) and 40% who are "white," whatever that means, and 11% Native American, whatever that means (the Pueblo Indians and the Navaho are not as closely related as Greeks and Swedes.) In other places, like the East Coast, you have a dominant culture and newcomers must adjust; here, you can adjust in either of two main directions, Hispanic or "Anglo." (Note that "Anglo" refers to English speakers, not any particular ethnicity.) Unlike most places, you can get along perfectly well here speaking nothing but Spanish, and a lot of people do, which we consider a feature, not a bug. We do have an ambiguous relationship with Texas -- we've twice had to run off armed invasions by Texans, which we did without too much trouble, but still, you know? Should we really have had to do that? One of our big problems is that they continue to sneak across the border to sight-see, ski, shop, play golf, spread covid, etc. so they are a continuing nuisance.
Anyway, we do like it here, and wish more people would continue to stay away. 8-)