Local and national papers recently revealed that at least 13 bodies have been found in the desert near Santa Fe.
The stories claim that these are the bodies of prostitutes and substance abusers. Word around Los Alamos circles is quite different.
Locally it is a well known fact that both Plague [yes, the Bubonic Plague] and Hanta Virus are well distributed in New Mexico and virtually non existent in the rest of the U.S. For scientists this is as much a mystery as the Roswell Affair.
Coincidentally during the past few decades it is believed that biological weapons experiments were conducted at Los Alamos. Some say that just as the papers report that Chromium and Radioactive Strontium have leaked from Los Alamos
--so too have Hanta Virus and Plague--unless possibly they were carried here by the Spanish Conquistadors over 400 years ago?
Whatever the case several Navajos who recently managed to observe the exhumation site of the alleged [only 13?
] 13 bodies say it looks like something from the X-Files and that they were driven off by a large black helicopter--of the type often observed upon and above the New Mexico deserts.
With current winds between Albuquerque and Santa Fe raising huge dust clouds at 30-55 mph it is advisable not to go outdoors and inhale dust particles which might be contaminated with Hanta, Plague, and/or radioactive particles--not to forget New Mexican uranium mine slag particles. This is not a joke.
Todays New Mexican carries a cover story about a 38 year old New Mexican man fighting Leukemia. This is an unusually young age for a a formerly very robust man--a police officer--to contract this disease which is often caused by exposure to radioactive material.
Most of the people at the City-Data Santa Fe site who have the time and motivation to answer your questions are realtors who are now somewhat desperate for commissions on those extremely overpriced $350K-$10,000,000 Santa Fe "homes"; you can rest assured that they will do everything in their persuasive, manipulative powers to persuade and to convince you that Santa Fe is The Place to Be. They've got those payments to make on their Range Rovers, multi-million dollar mortgages, homes in the south of France and San Miguel de Allende, Harry Winston diamond jewelry, Pennington and Lawrenceville school tuition, Beverly Hills face lifts, etc. and they are currently at their wits end due to the sinking economy.
If you want more info about Santa Fe check out the website of the Santa Fe New Mexican [whose advertising is 95% funded by the realtors], The Santa Fe Reporter [which is far more honest, and entertaining about local realities], or best of all spend a week in Albuquerque talking to locals at malls, libraries, post offices, etc. You are likely to find the latter an excellent source of truth about living in New Mexico and Santa Fe. PS You are also well advised before relocating here to spend at least one month living here before you make that big leap into a very "different" third world.
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Leukemia strikes people of all ages and lifestyles. It doesn't matter if your 3 or 73, that's just the way it is. So, a 'robust man of 38' doesn't matter, that's the cards he was dealt unfortunately. 
