What do you think of Las Cruces?

[Tobin S.]

[taterguy]

1. Not a goddamn thing

Why do you ask?

[Tobin S.]

3. I was just being cute and nerdy.

My wife likes it anyway.

[KamaAina]

2. I actually know three people who have lived there

well, two of them are a couple.

[Tobin S.]

4. I've been through there many times in my duties as a trucker.

I once considered moving there before I met my wife.

[Ryano42]

5. They don't call it Loose Crotches for nothin'

Actually about as hot as the surface of the sun most of the time.

[Arugula Latte]

6. Way too dry and brown for me. I like my trees, I like my rain, I like my green and I like my ocean.

I think deserts have their own kind of beauty but I just couldn't spend much time in one. Even Denver is way too brown and dry for me.

[PasadenaTrudy]

16. Me too

I'd love to be among the Redwoods in NorCal. Arcata. Ocean and big trees, best combo!

[Ron Obvious]

7. I like it...

I used to ride my bike there and back when I lived in El Paso. I still remember the smell of those damn cows midway there. Pew!

[BarbaRosa]

13. Pew indeed!

Driving past the cow farm is always an interesting event on the drive to Hell Paso.

[haele]

8. We got stuck there in a snowstorm two years ago.

On our way to Albuquerque to be with my mom for the first Christmas without Dad. Two days before Christmas.
We got stuck in Lordsburg with nearly a thousand cars and a hundred or so 18-wheelers for a good 6 hours; managed to sneak in front of the line to get out as soon as the freeway opened because I could read a good old-fashioned AAA map and figure out the best place not on the main drag to be waiting to get on the freeway instead of depending on a GPS like the rest of the cars stranded with us. The cut across from I-10 to I-25 had too iffy to try and make it without chains. So we got probably the decent last room (a room at the ready-to-put-up-the no-vacancy sign Holiday Inn Express opened up due to a weather cancellation just as I was walking up to the counter) along I-10 available that wasn't 20 miles down into El Paso.

The snow wasn't deep, but that slog up to Truth or Consequenses was a mess. Cars and small trucks were spinning-out everywhere.
Laz had never driven in snow before, so I told him not to be in a hurry and follow in the visible tracks of the big rigs -at a safe, steady, slow distance - as the weight of the rigs would break up the ice on the road. Took us ten hours to get to ABQ.

Haele

[Blue_Tires]

9. Go aggies?

[GentryDixon]

10. I love LaPosta restaurant.

Killer margaritas and damn good chicken chimichangas.

[HipChick]

11. Lived there for 2yrs..

Still hate it

[BarbaRosa]

14. I liked Las Cruces a lot better 20 or 30 years ago

when it was a small southern NM city(?).

A shopping day in Cruces was fun back then. Shopping in the downtown mall, and then to La Posta for drinks and food. Then Mesilla Valley Mall came to be and that was fun for awhile, with the shopping day ending at O'Ryans.

Over the years its grown a lot and has pretty much become a bedroom community for Hell Paso, and lost it's SWNM charm. While we still take shopping trips there, it's just not the same.

YMMD

[PasadenaTrudy]

15. Hot and depressing?

I would take Abq or Santa Fe. Must have trees, too.

[rudolph the red]

17. It's too close to El Paso

El Paso sucks.

[Xyzse]

18. Beautiful place

I spent a week or so around that area.

I can see myself living there and enjoying it.