Hey, what is going on everyone? Who wants to hear about the Land of Enchantment
New Mexico the title Land of Enchantment was chosen to describe New Mexico's
scenic beauty and rich history the nickname was placed on New Mexico
license plates in 1941 but wasn't the official state nickname until April 8th
1999 kind of afraid of commitment there or
something didn't want to pull the trigger on that one
New Mexico is our fifth largest state and 36 in population New Mexico became a
state January 6 1912 making it our 45th state most people think New Mexico is
one big flat desert most people would be wrong
the southern portion is considered to be a desert and it's it's relatively flat
but the northern section that's got some areas of continental and alpine climates
they actually have a lot of mountains there New Mexico is another state that
has a population on the decline it's been going on for about the last six
years or so except for 2017 where they had a slight increase due to high
birthrate that year not many people set out to make a life in New Mexico anymore
but that doesn't mean you can't some people actually do if you're thinking
about making the jump to the Land of Enchantment you should probably watch my
top ten reasons not to move New Mexico
number ten open roads while driving along a major highway here it could be
hours before you reach the next destination when it says no gas for a
certain amount of miles take heed pay attention to that and there's nothing
like breaking down in an area that looks more like a Mad Max movie than a US
state number nine the unemployment rate unless you already have a job lined up
in New Mexico you probably don't want to go it's gonna be hard to find one that
whole thing about not many people moving into the state that also goes for
companies - and that's a major factor in this exodus the land of enchantments
been experiencing it's not a lot of jobs the unemployment rate is about 6%
whereas the national average is about 3.8 and that's how it is currently if
you're think about leaving some comment about it's wrong and stuff like that
it's six months down the line just stop typing these numbers change on a monthly
basis number eight safety New Mexico has been
ranked the 47th safest state considering there's 50 states that number sucks they
have the most number of assault per 100,000 residents and has the lowest
amount of law enforcement officers in the country so high crime and a low
number of cops is their main issue maybe not their main issue but it ain't
helping I mean it already sucks you've ended up in New Mexico but then you get
assaulted and there's no cop around to help you out number seven the heat New
Mexico is hot but it's a dry heat as the old saying goes in the winter it gets to
be about an average 57 degrees and in the summer it averages over 90 degrees
and that's averages before you leave some lame comment about how it was over
a hundred degrees the other day or two days last week or something like that
just stop typing Google how averages work before you just leave some stupid
comment but anyway just keep in mind it's always hot in New Mexico number six
health coverage in 2016 New Mexico was ranked as 26 for access to health care
14% of the population didn't have any form of health insurance during that
time keep in mind it's been kind of mandatory for some years now well maybe
mandatory but you kind of get fined on your taxes if you don't have it and
after reading how many assaults they have every year I'd make sure I had
health insurance number five sales tax New Mexico sales tax is about five
percent however each town can have their own sales tax and in some areas that can
get up as high as nine percent they also have a pretty high alcohol tax beer is
taxed at a rate of forty one cents per gallon now my first problem with this is
I didn't think anyone really measured beer by gallons I mean I know it comes
in gallons and I'm sure someone has in the past I just have never seen beer in
its gallon form thought that one was kind of weird but anyway that is the
13th highest beer tax in the country wine is taxed at a rate of 45 cents per
liter they're just getting per liter per gallon well I guess later make I don't
know anyway that's about 33 cents per every liter
now you can't tax wine like that in California you will have a total riot on
your hands I know all these housewives all over the South Bay of Southern
California they would lose their if they taxed wine like this it's crazy number
for drug abuse Breaking Bad actually isn't too far from the reality for many
New Mexico residents drug problems are so bad in New Mexico the police can't
even make a dent I mean there's really not a lot of them and they're always
filling out reports on random assaults so it kind of limits their time they
could be looking for meth labs about 25 people per 100,000 actually suffer a
fatal drug overdose every year in New Mexico and that's way above the national
average they might actually have more meth labs than almost any other state I
think I don't know how you'd measure that but they have a lot of them they
used to break up about a hundred a month now because they have so few police
officers they're lucky thinking you know knock out 20 number three education if
you have school-age kids and you really don't like them enroll them in a New
Mexico School District their school reviews are consistently bad in their
rated second worst state in the country for education you know
something isn't good when the only state below you in a category is Mississippi
sidenote 75% of all New Mexico eighth graders can't find Mississippi on a map
and 80% of Mississippi eighth graders can't find Mississippi on a map
number two poverty as if he already didn't figure this one out with all the
employment and drug facts in New Mexico about 20% of the adults live in poverty
and about 30% of their children of their whole population about 17% experience
hunger and food insecurities at any time estimates are that there's about 20,000
homeless living in New Mexico right now that is a horrible place to be homeless
I mean that's Sun beating down on you all the time there's like water not
available everywhere you go that's a bad place to be homeless and number one
fleeing residents like poverty you probably had a feeling this one was
coming with the working-class fleeing the state with their children because of
all the crime schools poverty and drugs the state will soon have a low
population problem it'll probably last for years between 2010 and 2016 about 53
thousand more people moved out of them moved in but like I said at the
beginning there were more births than deaths in 2017 and the states saw a
small growth 1.1 percent in the year of 2017 much lower than the national
average of 4.7 percent this is bad for any state when the people that are
earning and paying taxes decide cheap rent isn't worth it anymore and start
fleeing the sinking ship yeah that's bad stay tuned it's 2018
right now and unless New Mexico does something drastic or something major
they will be in bad shape for decades to come
all right so that's a top ten reasons not to move to New Mexico hope you
enjoyed it that one's kind of a bummer New Mexico is really not doing good
I hope they do turn it around I have some friends that grew up there they
since left they back there at about a decade because they knew it was getting
bad back then but hopefully they can everybody have a great day
be nice to each other
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