New Mexico Congressional seats all BLUE

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

25. It is a highly personal decision.

I love living here, and hope I can spend the rest of my life in NM, but that depends partly on where My Son The Astronomer winds up after he gets his PhD. He is currently on the East Coast, attending school at George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. I don't like being so far away from my only son, so I might well relocate after a while.

I will add this. I feel very fortunate that I was able to move to a place I truly wanted to live in. Most of us wind up somewhere because of job or family or some such. Not many of us get to look around the country and decide, "I'd like to live THERE!" which I was able to do. In my case, I was divorcing after some 25 years of marriage. I did not have a career, as I'd stayed home some 25 years to raise children. I knew that I would of course need to work, and I'd be getting an entry level job, whatever it might be. Which actually gave me a lot of freedom that someone who is trying to relocate but has some kind of real career or non-entry-level job would be dealing with. I looked at several different parts of the country, but in the end, I like to say that Santa Fe kept calling my name. I moved here, got work, made friends, and have never regretted it.

If you relocate anywhere, I sincerely hope you have the same experience, wherever you go.