well, I once was talking with a person at school and I asked them what they thought about the city and they said it's really similar to both Albuquerque and 1990's California, and it's very hot. I still don't know what they meant by that so I saw some pictures of Albuquerque and, yes, they were right. For context, I live in another country that has close ties to the United States, so maybe that's why!!

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[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I'm from Albuquerque. It's a high desert as in high elevation and few trees. Closer to the Sandias and the Bosque there's trees. But I honestly don't know anything about where you live to know if they are similar.

I well say 90's Cali felt much safer then it does now. Albuquerque has its homless issue just like every American city but it's no where as bad as Cali or Florida. I visited Denver, Colorado recently and couldn't find a cop or a homeless person the three days I stayed there but they are very mono-ethnic state compared to New Mexico where they is no majority ethnicity.

It's very hot. But not sweltering because they have no humidity in the air like Florida. If you want to experience mind numbing heat head to Corpus Christi, Texas. That is by far the hottest I have ever been.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

You couldn't find a homeless person in Denver... ??! It's a huge issue right there now, approaching what Portland ~4 years ago (Portland is slightly worse but it's comparable). A major political issue is 'sweeps' of homeless camps and the Mayor working on building safe camping sites and tiny house communities. Denver has thousands of homeless people and it's the same tent city and sidewalk tent thing as CA or OR. You must not have gone slightly north or east of downtown, or Cap Hill, or out by 225 in Aurora. The park by my house near the Platte was invaded by people in RVs for about 2 weeks until the cops moved them along, and you can find people living in RVs all along that industrial stretch. Also a major thing on South Broadway. Train tracks by Alameda and I25 have tons of people living there in tents.

Denver also is not that homogenous... large Black population in Aurora, and I was just living by Athmar Park (SW of downtown by i25 and federal) and it's a hugely hispanic and Asian (mainly Vietnamese) area. Half the grocery stores I went to, I was the only person there who didn't speak Spanish. Some of them, nobody in the store spoke good English and I felt like an idiot for not knowing Spanish.

[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Naw I didn't. I was only there for three days. I was only around city o city, the museums and the Oriental theater.

Statisticly and compared to New Mexico Denver is very homogenous. No amount of anecdotal evidence can change that.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Denver has a ton of diversity. Way more black and Asian people than Albuquerque, and just as many Hispanic and native Americans. Look it up. It’s not ‘anectodal evidence’ and I mean, I’m talking to someone who is so clueless that you think Denver has no homeless people.

[–] squiblet@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I’ve lived in Denver and Albuquerque and I don’t think the difference is quite as dramatic as you make it sound. As someone else noted there are way more Black people in Denver and Aurora. Considering the metro is like 5x the size of Albuquerque, too, there are more Hispanic people here than the entire population of Albuquerque.

https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Colorado/Denver/Race-and-Ethnicity

Denver: 53% white, 30% Hispanic, 10% black, 3.5% Asian, and I assume the remainder African/Native.

https://statisticalatlas.com/place/New-Mexico/Albuquerque/Race-and-Ethnicity

Albuquerque: 40% white, 47% Hispanic, 3% black, 2.5% Asian, plus others making up 5%.

Then also Aurora, a city about the size of Albuquerque functioning as Denver’s largest suburb…

https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Colorado/Aurora/Race-and-Ethnicity

48% white, 28% Hispanic, 15% black, 5.5% Asian, others 5%.

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