I love this rant from ‘Burque Babble first posted here two years ago. (This is just an excerpt, you should read it all.)
What’s this I hear about New Mexico going to two automobile license plates? If it ain’t bad enough that we’re gonna get more than one area code, now we gotta consider getting all cosmopolitan by stickin’ another license plate on the front of our cars. What’s next, High Occupancy Vehicles lanes? Light rail? Thai restaurants in the South Valley?
I’m afraid NM is losing that inefficient, podunk feel that brought many of us here in the first place. …
Thankfully, we haven’t turned all HOV lanes and pad thai yet. As I’ve mentioned before, NM has a stunningly high number of folks who not only don’t have two license plates on their car, they don’t even have one metal license plate. Instead, there is a piece of paper illegibly stuck inside their dark-tinted rear window.
After I graduated UNM in 1962 we moved to Southern California and made our life there. When I retired in 2005 we moved back to Albuquerque. When we left there were about 150,000 people in greater Albuquerque. When we moved back the population had grown to more than 500,000.
There’s way too many people here now.
It seems that the people here now are much less friendly. The city government is much less competent. There are twice as many policemen per capita here than in LA. It feels like political correctness is the law instead a just a social pressure. The mantra is “Ask not what the government can do for you, ask what the government can give you”.
We haven’t found ANY good Mexican restaurants not to mention New Mexican restaurants. The closest good New Mexican restaurant was in Mountainair and it has closed.