I have a good friend who is a working intuitive, and I spoke to her a few weeks ago. I happened to mention that my nephew and his wife had moved, and before I could say where, she said "to Albuquerque?". ? I shouldn't have been surprised given what she does for a living, but i was. Anyway, I said yes, and that I was casually looking into the cost of living there just out of curiosity (it's *much* lower than where I am now, btw). She said, "Oh, well that's not a surprise to me. I've seen you moving there at some point."
I don't know if I will actually do that, at least not for the foreseeable future. I'm still unemployed and still living with my mom, who is going strong at 80, and she refuses to move. We'll see, I guess.
Thank you for sharing this! I am in the Great Lakes region (Michigan) and remember @jeanne-mayell mentioning it as a future climate change refuge area. I have already seen inquiries this week on a mom's list I am on about someone in California looking to relocate to our area specifically because of the wildfires and climate changes. I sense the wildfires (and hurricanes this year, specifically) are really shifting everyone's attention and bringing those climate change issues to the surface of people's daily lives now, even in areas that are not directly affected at the moment.
We are looking at Santa Fe and Taos, just north of ABQ, as they are higher elevation and less desert-y.
We have friends in St. Joseph MI and family in Chicago, so MI has been added to our list as well.
Santa Fe proper is actually just as desert-y as Albuquerque. If you want a greener area you need to go up into the surrounding mountains. In the Albuquerque area, if you want greenery you also go up into the mountains (pine forest) or to the greenbelt of the river valley where I live(Cottonwoods/Elms and irrigated farmland). I love Taos, but it's a bit isolated and cold in the winter...
@frank I'm in the East Bay, so I'm accustomed to being a bit "desert-y", and I actually prefer that if only for the temperature range. I do like greenery and such, but I'm so averse to winter that I don't think I'd want to go much higher in elevation than ABQ. I'll check into the valley greenbelt, though; as long as it doesn't get horribly cold/snowy in the winter, that would be very nice for me.
Does the US government have a map of sort that shows how well you're faring when sea levels rise? We have one in The Netherlands and it is a great tool to base your decisions off.
It has advice on what to do even if you don't get flooded and how to prepare and all. I know we're a water-country, but perhaps a branch is preparing in the US as well?
https://www.overstroomik.nl/overstroom-ik.html is the Dutch site. 'overstroom ik' basically means: will I get flooded.
Scroll up - I posted a link to those kinds of maps.
And yes, we do have access to maps for flooding, although with the current regime they have probably not been maintained nor updated. You have to buy extra home insurance if you live in a likely-to-flood area, however insurance companies here no longer cover coastal properties affordably, if at all.
@frank One time we went to Tucson down from I 40. We went through the town Snowflake. It is a beautiful town lot of trees. We never went that way again because we had to go down a winding mountain road to the bottom, and then up the mountain again. I'm afraid of highs, but the town was lovely.
@laura-f and @tgraf66 I used to live in ABQ and, like Frank, I also recommend the riverbelt area. It goes right through town. It does not get any snowier in the river valley than in the rest of ABQ. Also look into the community of Corrales. Gorgeous.
Laura, I grew up in San Diego, lived there 25 years including Clairemont, Chula Vista, North Park, and Rancho Bernardo. You will miss the ocean at first when you move away, but you will quickly grow to enjoy the slower pace of life and the beauty of your new community, wherever you decide to live :)
And while I'm at it, let me throw Northern Colorado along the east side of the Rockies (the region known as the Front Range) into the hat for your consideration. Been here since '96 and I love it. Not sure you'd enjoy Grand Junction, though you might. It's a pretty area but a little too conservative for me.
Best of luck with your planning and decisions!
As you know, I don't have much psychic ability, but my head is full of info and questions. I have a nagging question. Probably a dumb, dumb question, but here goes... If China can build islands in the China Sea, why can't we build up our coasts?