[mark_l_watson]

I also like New Mexico a lot and my wife and I almost moved there 15 years ago when we were looking for an inexpensive place to live that was also fun to live in. We ended up in the mountains of Central Arizona, similar to New Mexico.

We are now living in Silicon Valley for six months because I wanted to do a contracting job here. This is a fun area also but we are blown away by the high cost of living. Sometimes it is very important to have coworkers co-situated, but otherwise let workers live where they want. I am now working with people who spend two hours a day commuting. That is a huge hit in wasted time.