It always been an odd state to me. It is stagnant in population while other states in the region like Texas , Arizona, Colorado , Nevada and Utah are booming.
It has the same climate as a place like Arizona which has a huge retiree population and a booming Hispanic population.
So why aren't people moving there ?
Click on this link:
Arizona and New Mexico populationThen uncheck the Arizona box, and see how much faster New Mexico grew when not compared with Arizona. Then check Montana. And Idaho.
Albuquerque is 3900 feet, so would a bit of an altitude problem for retirees. And that it actually had a population, meant it could not be totally remade into a retirement paradise like Phoenix which was just miles of cotton farms.
