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Because of our wide open and unpopulated countryside, many, many people are looking at our area as a good place to raise their kids or to retire. Almost no pollution, almost no crime, it's not "reach out and touch your neighbor," and the countryside is simply gorgeous. These are all reasons why I came here, too. I just happened to get here a bit earlier than most folks (1994). I also came here having a pretty good idea what I was getting into. Since getting here, I've met a lot of folks who don't have any idea... For example:
For our first 5 years in Boncarbo, our nearest neighbor was over 2 miles away. There were summer visitors on the ranch but most of the year, we had the whole 700 acres to ourselves. Big cattle ranches on three sides and a 5,000-acre state wildlife area on the fourth, it was heaven (for us). Horrendous downpours and hail during thundershowers in the summer. In winter, everything from 2 inches of snow every day for a month to 5 feet over a Thanksgiving weekend, with quite a few 2-3 foot snowfalls thrown in, right up to the middle of May. And don't forget the -20° sometimes. 23 miles to town: 2 miles to the county road and then 13 miles to pavement. A little bit of planning and discipline and we never had a problem. Not even a bear problem. Even the three-and-a-half years before we got a phone line were no problem. Then folks from Santa Fe moved onto the property right next to us. 48 hours and we had bears coming out our ears. Two more weeks and people in town were hassling me about "those folks from Santa Fe who come here and want to change things."
I've been here 12 years now but I'm not a native. I do have to say, though, that living in this wilderness in the heart of America is not for pansies, or for folks who are sure they know better. If you come here thinking you're going to change things for the "better," we have a place for you up north: it's called "Boulder." (In New Mexico it's called "Santa Fe": if a light bulb burns out, the city folks there don't change it, instead, they have a workshop about how to live in darkness, or they form a healing circle to heal the bulb.) I once had a sheriff's deputy ask me what kind of owl that was sitting on top of my dog run fence (it was a plastic one, and that deputy actually came here from Boulder).
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