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Those homes in Silver City sound very affordable. Wondering what a new 3-bedroom home would sell for, only need about 1500 sq ft. How are housing starts in Silver City compared to Las Cruces?
If you're interested in Bernalillo, construction has begun on an adult community called Alegria, south of the junction of hwys 550 and 528. It consists of 376 homes on 80 acres. A 1,900 s.f. house goes for $285k.
Hope this helps.
We notice that many of the posts asking about a particular state leave out facts that show where the writer is “coming from” and the answers are then not specific enough to help them. We’ll attempt to be specific and hope for the best and the answers MAY HELP OTHERS AS WELL AS US. We think this is a great place to learn about the “rest” of the country. We are posting in the NEW MEXICO section because of an article in the Money Magazine. It named New Mexico in general and Las Cruces specifically as the BEST RETIREMENT place in the United States. The article is specific about defining “best retirement” place as compared to “best place to live.” It said that many retirees are finding everything that they liked in Arizona, [in N.M.] but less expensive. Las Cruces, according to the posts is a little to hot for us. The relatively low cost of living in New Mexico [at least according to Money Magazine] brings us to this forum.
So, here goes: We originally lived in Milwaukee, WI for most of our lives. It was a great place to work and raise a family. We eventually moved to Arizona to get away from the cold and snowy winters and humid summers filled with mosquitoes. We have lived in Green Valley [25 miles south of Tucson] for twenty years! While Green Valley has many good points for retirement, most of the summer is just plain HOT. Anything above 90 is hot to us. July and August are HOT and HUMID with many 100+ days! Its elevation is 3,000 FT.
I have searched around the State of Arizona and looked at all of the usual places with higher altitudes like Prescott, Payson, Flagstaff, Sedona, Show low, Lakeside, Pinetop, etc. I even owned land outside of Payson for a few years. Most of these places, especially Payson, are viewed by the “valley people” [Phoenix Metro area] as great places for second homes. Payson is especially attractive to them because it is a 2 hour trip up a nicely paved, beautiful mountain road called the B Line. Anyway, although the altitude controls the weather, we found that the weather at our land site
[6000 FT] was strange, in that, it had many 100 degree days and sometimes deep snows. Payson, a short drive away, [5,000 FT] was just as warm during the middle of summer with a lot of “black ice” in the winter. We sold our land after an especially bad winter. The snow plows made a path to our land but refused to plow most of the forest that it was in, due to too much snow. We found the housing prices pushed way up, in Payson and all the Arizona areas previously mentioned, by the valley people and people from California. A nice house in Green Valley is almost half price of what a nice house in Payson costs. So cost is a factor.
By now you are probably saying, what do these people want? We want a house, cottage or cabin that is moderately priced in New Mexico. We want the weather during the winter to be “light jacket weather.” We want the summers to be about 85. We want the home to be just high enough to be in the “Pines.” Even a cottage or cabin would be nice. A little dusting of snow is OK. Cooler weather is better than hot. We can always put a jacket on but are limited by what we can take off! We are both between 60 and 70 years of age living on S.S. and a modest pension. AS LONG AS THERE IS A SUPER WAL-MART, A HOME DEPOT AND A DOCTOR WITHIN 40 MILES OR SO, WE WOULD BE HAPPY!
Well that is our retirement wish list. Are there any towns in New Mexico that fit these wishes? I hope to hear from you. azloafer@cox.net
We notice that many of the posts asking about a particular state leave out facts that show where the writer is “coming from” and the answers are then not specific enough to help them. We’ll attempt to be specific and hope for the best and the answers MAY HELP OTHERS AS WELL AS US. We think this is a great place to learn about the “rest” of the country. We are posting in the NEW MEXICO section because of an article in the Money Magazine. It named New Mexico in general and Las Cruces specifically as the BEST RETIREMENT place in the United States. The article is specific about defining “best retirement” place as compared to “best place to live.” It said that many retirees are finding everything that they liked in Arizona, [in N.M.] but less expensive. Las Cruces, according to the posts is a little to hot for us. The relatively low cost of living in New Mexico [at least according to Money Magazine] brings us to this forum.
Las Cruces has quite a few days over 100 degrees. It gets real hot down there. Lots of retirees like it though.
So, here goes: We originally lived in Milwaukee, WI for most of our lives. It was a great place to work and raise a family. We eventually moved to Arizona to get away from the cold and snowy winters and humid summers filled with mosquitoes. We have lived in Green Valley [25 miles south of Tucson] for twenty years! While Green Valley has many good points for retirement, most of the summer is just plain HOT. Anything above 90 is hot to us. July and August are HOT and HUMID with many 100+ days! Its elevation is 3,000 FT.
I have searched around the State of Arizona and looked at all of the usual places with higher altitudes like Prescott, Payson, Flagstaff, Sedona, Show low, Lakeside, Pinetop, etc. I even owned land outside of Payson for a few years. Most of these places, especially Payson, are viewed by the “valley people” [Phoenix Metro area] as great places for second homes. Payson is especially attractive to them because it is a 2 hour trip up a nicely paved, beautiful mountain road called the B Line. Anyway, although the altitude controls the weather, we found that the weather at our land site
[6000 FT] was strange, in that, it had many 100 degree days and sometimes deep snows. Payson, a short drive away, [5,000 FT] was just as warm during the middle of summer with a lot of “black ice” in the winter. We sold our land after an especially bad winter. The snow plows made a path to our land but refused to plow most of the forest that it was in, due to too much snow. We found the housing prices pushed way up, in Payson and all the Arizona areas previously mentioned, by the valley people and people from California. A nice house in Green Valley is almost half price of what a nice house in Payson costs. So cost is a factor.
By now you are probably saying, what do these people want? We want a house, cottage or cabin that is moderately priced in New Mexico. We want the weather during the winter to be “light jacket weather.” We want the summers to be about 85. We want the home to be just high enough to be in the “Pines.” Even a cottage or cabin would be nice. A little dusting of snow is OK. Cooler weather is better than hot. We can always put a jacket on but are limited by what we can take off! We are both between 60 and 70 years of age living on S.S. and a modest pension. AS LONG AS THERE IS A SUPER WAL-MART, A HOME DEPOT AND A DOCTOR WITHIN 40 MILES OR SO, WE WOULD BE HAPPY!
Well that is our retirement wish list. Are there any towns in New Mexico that fit these wishes? I hope to hear from you. azloafer@cox.net
I wanna say a place like Ruidoso or Silver city would fit your needs. Both may be overpriced for your situation but it still may be possible for you to find a small place for around 150k. The light jacket winter may be hard to have in these places. Most places that have pines in NM get pretty cold in the winter.
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Of everything you said you wanted, Silver City is the best fit for it all. It is getting more costly though since people are discovering it, but you can still get a bargain if you search. It has light snow in the winter that melts super quick. It isn't cold in the winter either like the rest of the pine areas of NM. It gets in the 80s in the summer. It has pines, in the north area. Ruidoso can get quite a bit of snow and is colder. It is also on the costly side since many Texans target that area for houses. It is pretty though. I think for what you asked for, Silver City is your target area.
We presently live in Wyoming & are moving to TorC, New Mexico the end of October, which is about 1 hour away from Las Cruces.
When we researched in May we stayed 3 days at the KOA in Silver City, which we liked, temperatures there are perfect. The cost of housing was not, but if you look on the outside of Silver City, at a place called Hurley the housing prices are not too bad. It is about 20-25 minutes away from Silver City, very quiet & some seniors are moving into the area. Some one is buying the older houses & fixing them up. The properties have large lots. The real estate gentleman from Silver City was raised in Hurley, he gave us lots of information, very friendly. He just opened his own real estate business.
We found the perfect place for our retirement budget in TorC, plus it is close to the bigger cities when we need them.
Hope this helps. NMFORME
Well that is our retirement wish list. Are there any towns in New Mexico that fit these wishes? I hope to hear from you. azloafer@cox.net[/quote]
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