Moving to Santa Fe New Mexico PROS and CONS 2023 EVERYTHING You NEED To KNOW! 

Limited health care options. Beautiful landscape!

I just chanced upon your channel and just about fell out of my chair when I came to your video. Finally, someone who's totally upfront and honest about the CONS of Santa Fe! Everything you say is true. Honesty is always the best policy.

In other words Fanta See, the Adobe Disney Land for the Rich and Famous, the City Difficult

The cons are well written and spot on. You've identified those negatives well and honestly. And, it's true, coming to Santa Fe means lowering one's expectations, if only a little. I came from 30 years on Wall Street NYC, so you can imagine the change. Still, I love it here!

I lived in Santa Fe for 3 yrs and Loved it. The Weather is Great, and I loved everything there. There are places to rent that are reasonable. You can get by o.k., just don't try to to go to every Restaurant and every shop and you will do fine!

Long before home rental prices went high in most of the country, they were super high in Santa Fe. There is lots to do downtown but parking is expensive and often unavailable. There is no night life because the high cost of housing means most younger people live a long commute away from Santa Fe.

My allergies are so bad all year around. It is real.

The elected officials not governing our city is creating chaos for the people visiting and people living in Santa Fe. The loud cars that take over our city day and night and the speeding cars and running red lights is an embarrassment to this city and the tax payers. There is no police presence to control any of this. In short, Santa Fe is going in the wrong direction. The officials are more interested with making the rail and art district another Disney park and not fixing problems at hand. I moved to Santa Fe over 14 years ago and love it, but the last few years of increased noise from the modified car mufflers have taken over the sound scape and is causing noise pollution that's unacceptable for most cities. My family and friends will no longer visit due to lack of sleep either in hotel rooms or at my place due to the noise. There are laws in place to curb the illegal cars but it's not being enforced. This is unfair and I don't know to approach it. I have contacted the governor's office and never received a reply, same with the mayor. Do our elected officials ever step outside to see what's going on in this city? This has been going on for a long time and there's been more than ample time to fix this.

I wish there were more specifics on the costs. Perhaps a list of costs for average housing, utilities, taxes, groceries, insurance, medical, etc.

They don't tell you that there are two economies in Santa Fe, the regular peoples economy and the rich peoples economy which is the only one they tell you about. Not everyone in Santa Fe lives in a 400-650 thousand dollar median house. There are a lot of lower socioeconomic people in Santa Fe that live in the lower neighborhoods that they don't tell you about. Lower cost neighborhoods out away from the downtown area where it's high end and wealthy. Look at the neighborhoods out past St. Michaels off Cerrillos Road, even Airport road out by the jail. The cons of moving to Santa Fe is thinking it's all high end and upscale and that it's all a higher cost of living and it's just not but they only promote the higher cost Santa Fe.

The culture does not live here in Santa Fe. The cost of living drove us all out. Born and raised in Santa Fe, came back home to tend to my ailing parents, both have since passed. I work in the medical field and can’t afford to live here. Many, many medical professionals have to go south to Rio Rancho or Albuquerque to live. What happened to my childhood home? Who sold us out?

I lived in Carlsbad, NM Roswell, and finally am in Texas

I thought of moving to Santa Fe, but truthfully Santa Fe to New Mexico is like Aspen to Colorado. To many movie stars live there and then the prices are jacked up. So I ended up moving to Albuquerque instead and I loved it there...... but because of mitigating circumstances, I had to move back to Nebraska. 🤬

I was the only Black lady walking around is most places and attending a College conference. I don’t know about Santa Fe…

Realistically what is the minimum Annual income to buy a decent home without living in the ghetto part of SantaFe

Useful info. Thanks. Think I can cross SF off the list. 7000’ elevation, actual winters, high priced touristy place clogged with galleries. Not for me. Prescott looking better and better.

Politics, cost to much even for native born just the cost of living is enough I grew up in Las Vegas New Mexico and moved to Vegas Nevada and live in a gated community in a in a house worth over 500 thousand so its a nice place to visit the national cemetery

Loretto not Laredo

I’m guessing Maya has a very rich husband and that they’re from California.

Thank you for your vids…is it normal to commute an hour to work? 😅

It is a nice place I lived in the Denver area for a long time and things are busy here. You mentioned the internet is not the reliable?

The cons are great. I don’t live in Santa Fe I live in Taos and the cons follow suit.

Best stay away, this is not the city for you

Jesus christ its a farmers market every city has one did she say no young people

I'm going to guess that you are a Taurus.

'promosm' 😀