For the most part, there's also very little geographic separation between the poorer parts and the richer parts, unless you end up east of Tramway or north of P

For the most part, there's also very little geographic separation between the poorer parts and the richer parts, unless you end up east of Tramway or north of Paseo. This does tend to mean a bit more property crime, but for the most part people are relatively accepting of that. There are still parts that are a bit scary (south valley, south of central especially around Zuni/San Pedro) but it's not that scary if you are from Abq. As for the racism, a lot of that goes back to the makeup of Abq historically and today, with an extremely diverse (and distributed!) population that most places can't match.