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The town of Los Alamos is beautiful, but it's small. It can be a great place if you already a have family that enjoys outdoors activities. Many people prefer to
by kbarros 4y ago
The town of Los Alamos is beautiful, but it's small. It can be a great place if you already a have family that enjoys outdoors activities. Many people prefer to commute from Santa Fe (45 min drive with mountain views, negligible traffic). Certain groups allow a flexible hybrid home/office working mode.
https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-09-22/the-healthiest-county-in-america-los-alamos-new-mexico https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/...
- neltnerb 4y agoI was only a guest scientist at LBL, but LBL is practically in Berkeley. But yeah, generally I assume this is true, though you may just find that you need a car and that if you have one it's not so bad. For instance, NREL (where I was also briefly a guest scientist) is in an incredibly gorgeous area near Golden which isn't super small but everything is still very spread out and it'd take a while to walk anywhere for sure. I guess it also depends on your definition of "middle of nowhere" I suppose. Golden is hardly Oakland, but I am pretty sure I could find people to date as long as I included Denver... and if you have a car in Colorado you will find that Denver is considered close to a lot of things you might not at first consider it close to. It's only an hour drive from Boulder (where I lived and drove to NREL as needed).
- worthless-trash 4y agoGuest Scientist makes you sound like a celebrity, that kinda tickles a part of my brain that makes me smile.
- neltnerb 4y agoIn this case it just meant I was being paid by someone else and convinced them to let me do stuff on their campus. But glad it made your smile ;-)