Wtf New Mexico?
this post was submitted on 15 Mar 2026
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At a glance, I would suspect that NM's lack of a competitive metro area causes brain-drain to the job markets in larger metro areas in surrounding states. Each of their neighbors has at least one of the top 50 metro areas by population.