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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
What mileage? The closest city of any size is Las Cruces, which as about 130 miles in driving distance.
Or are you suggesting Alamogordo is much more than 100 miles from anywhere? 
(Roswell AFB is relatively nearby. A friend who was stationed there in the Air Force points and laughs at people going on about "Area 51".)
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Dennis |
Mr. Hitch is a former resident of the lovely land of the incredibly blue skies. He was born and raised there, in the megalopolis of Ruidoso (which the locals pronounce Ree-OH-doh-so, for reasons that elude me). Land of the great sport of quarterhorse racing. :-)
Our own state has many spots equally remote--hell, I'm 40+ miles out of "town," but the truth is, NM is pretty remarkable in a lot of ways. Although, heat-wise, yes, it's bloody there and here. And for our Texan neighbors.
Having lived in both NY and AZ...I'll take NY summers over AZ summers. It's all well and good to yammer about humidity, but over the last 4 decades, Phoenix (and Tucson both) have had pretty significant increases in humidity, as more and more people relocate to the area and bring their idea of "tolerable" with them, planting green lawns of grass, building pools, and so on. In fact, the heat island of Phoenix is now so great that the lovely summer monsoons (incorrectly named, but..) that we used to get, reliably, almost every afternoon during the worst of the summer heat are now a memory. We get SOME summer storms, but nothing like we used to. And yes, that was in my lifetime; I experienced them myself.
One of the things that I like about living outside of town is that we are far enough away where we escape some of that heat bloom. Our average temps here are 5-8(F) cooler than they are in the city. It doesn't sound like a lot, but believe me, when it's 110F or 115F, that 8 degree deifference is really,
really NICE to have. Plus, due to where we are, we get a constant breeze here. In the mornings, the air is pulled down to the city, and in the afternoons, it's pulled up to the mountains behind us, all driven by the temps.
Of course...
it's still bloody HOT. And talk about stink..lord. You can say that sure, you cool off as soon as you get inside, blabbety, but all that does is dry off the shirts and pits, and the clearly discernible stench of bacteria is hard to ignore, no matter HOW clean someone is!! Trust me, around here, in July-Aug, you really avoid being in crowds coming in from the outside. For the sake of your own nose AND theirs! We should have an unofficial state title--land of summer BO. :-)
Hitch