Farmington, N.M.

Helluva golf course in Farmington, but that's about it.

 

An uncle of mine used to have a print shop in Aztec, the county seat. Having never had any connection with papers there, about the best thing I can think to say about the area is that Durango, Colo., and Purgatory ski aera are pretty close.

 

This does not have the Angola! seal of approval.

 

Well, it IS about 600 miles closer to the nearest In 'N' Out Burger than where I am right now ....

 

Unless it's Albuquerque, Santa Fe or Las Cruces, I can think of no reason to ever work in New Mexico.

Have a friend who's husband worked at the Ruidioso (sp?) paper for a year or so before Gannett's lies, broken promises, cheapness, etc., drove them out. I would expect that happens in LC as well, which is too bad because that seems like it could be a decent place to love and work.

 

Las Cruces? I want to like the place, but man, is it ever rough. And I'm not easily intimidated by rough towns, but day-yumn. Not a whole lotta love there.

And Farmington? Beautiful location, albeit cold in the winter. But it's a textbook case of dysfunctional race relations. Hispanics, "Anglos" and Native Americans live in a three-way clusterfuck of hatred there. Each group seems to think they are the rightful owners of the place and that the other two groups should be bludgeoned into silence, figuratively, if not literally. Of course I'm sure there are good people there, but I suspect that its bad rep is deserved. I shudder to think at how those tensions play themselves out in the world of school and youth sports. This seems like the kind of town where the locals hate the newspaper because the reporters aren't locals. I could be wrong about that last point, but I'd be very wary with this one.