Real or just in the movies? (Las Cruces: fit in, living in, bus)
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Those small towns out in the southwest where people can go from other places to drop off the map and start over, populated by people who embrace strangeness. I come from north Jersey so I was always envious of those types of places where people who don't fit in anywhere else were welcome. I'm just not sure if they actually exist.
DE~I've actually been to such a place, but it wasn't in the southwest. It was Eureka Springs, AR. The locals call the place Freaky Eureky, and it is, but in a good way.
Those small towns out in the southwest where people can go from other places to drop off the map and start over, populated by people who embrace strangeness. I come from north Jersey so I was always envious of those types of places where people who don't fit in anywhere else were welcome. I'm just not sure if they actually exist.
There are plenty of places in the Rocky Mountain West that you--being from New Jersey--would probably find "strange." As to people living in towns in New Mexico that "don't fit anywhere else" in the US--there are probably some all over the Rocky Mountain West who might fit that description, but they fit in just fine here. Here, they are the norm--you might be the one that would stick out like a sore thumb.
As for dropping off the map, there are still some isolated places in the West, but most everyplace has internet access, satellite television, etc. So, "dropping out" isn't as common as it once was. Too many outsiders are also moving in--trying to "live the dream"--whatever that's supposed to be. Not very many "backwater" places left, anymore.
I think for the most part "dropping out" anymore is myth unless you want to move to the more remote areas of Alaska. Maybe you just need to accept your life and try to fit in where you live. My favorite saying is "No matter where you go, there you are." To me this does not say all places are the same, but that no matter where a person goes, he or she can either make the best of it and flourish, or find nothing good at all in the place, and want to be somewhere else.
I'm not so much worried about technology. I'm speaking more about just going somewhere out of my comfort zone where I'm completely alone and unfamiliar. Where my only option is to sink or swim. The past four years of my life have been the longest I haven't been on a Greyhound bus bound for points unknown and being stuck somewhere I didn't return to entirely by choice is really starting to take it's toll on me.
I still have a few months before I'll have everything in place to leave so the search continues.
I'm not so much worried about technology. I'm speaking more about just going somewhere out of my comfort zone where I'm completely alone and unfamiliar. Where my only option is to sink or swim. The past four years of my life have been the longest I haven't been on a Greyhound bus bound for points unknown and being stuck somewhere I didn't return to entirely by choice is really starting to take it's toll on me.
I still have a few months before I'll have everything in place to leave so the search continues.
You are from Bayonne? I'd have to say that there is no place in the U.S. that is more upside down from Bayonne than southern NM, which is where I live now. I say that because I used to live in Northern NJ, and know Bayonne quite well.
One thing I can say for certain: before you leave, go up Boulevard and order a pizza at San Remo, and savor every bite. That is not going to be an option here.
You are from Bayonne? I'd have to say that there is no place in the U.S. that is more upside down from Bayonne than southern NM, which is where I live now. I say that because I used to live in Northern NJ, and know Bayonne quite well.
One thing I can say for certain: before you leave, go up Boulevard and order a pizza at San Remo, and savor every bite. That is not going to be an option here.
I think someone making a good East Coast pie could do very, very well in Las Cruces. Jeez, the pizzas are second rate in LC. So is the Chinese food, while I'm whining.....
I think someone making a good East Coast pie could do very, very well in Las Cruces. Jeez, the pizzas are second rate in LC. So is the Chinese food, while I'm whining.....
Tecpatl, do you think it has something to do with the water content here? That's what I always hear when it comes to not being able to construct properly a Neopolitan-based thin crust pie here. I have no idea, since I've never baked a pizza before. In any event, Dion's is about the best of a very unimpressive lot.
You are from Bayonne? I'd have to say that there is no place in the U.S. that is more upside down from Bayonne than southern NM, which is where I live now. I say that because I used to live in Northern NJ, and know Bayonne quite well.
One thing I can say for certain: before you leave, go up Boulevard and order a pizza at San Remo, and savor every bite. That is not going to be an option here.
Unfortunately Bayonne is on a steady decline with no signs of getting better. Anyway, any particular towns down in southern NM that stand out? Right now my only means of investigation is google (and here) so the more information I can get, the better hehe.
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Real, just not in NM
