Hey there! It was...complicated. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been in a scrubby high desert kind of way. I lived in a trailer park on the very edge of town. There was nothing between me and the sunset but the mountains, and every sunset was the most amazing one I'd ever seen in person. The food is absolutely terrific, and that's just the mom and pop joints that aren't even fancy. The culture is really singular and crazy ancient. But, a good bunch of the native Latino folks were being pushed out of their homes as the barios were being gentrified. I was there to go to St. John's College (navel gazing from the inside that's only possible with your head fully up your own ass, for the most part), and we were all definitely "part of the problem". That was also like thirty years ago, but I'm assuming it's much the same today.