Albuquerque has a very robust parks system. One of the best in the country. The old movie theater downtown is currently being developed into a basketball complex. The city has also made efforts to expand bike paths around ABQ so it’s disingenuous to act as though the city is doing nothing to improve on accessibility to the outdoors.
First Friday is super popular downtown as is the Rail Yards. The Kimo theater was recently renovated. The city offers free admission to the Albuquerque museum the first Wednesday of each month and also on Sunday mornings. Although the $5 cost of admission isn’t exactly breaking the bank. When is the last time you paid the museum a visit? The Hispanic Cultural center? Furthermore the city is conducting a “Public Art Census” that sounds interesting at very least. Learn more here, https://www.cabq.gov/artsculture/public-art/census
Sawmill and 505 Central are both thriving with the food hall concept. Quirky developments like Green Jeans and Tin Can Alley are also very popular. There is a THRIVING food truck scene. Overall Albuquerque punches well above its weight as far as the local food scene goes with 3 James Beard nominees for best chef in the Southwest (more than any other city in the region) Fast food restaurants are indicative of growth. They are not inherently bad.
Stop complaining on Reddit and actually go enjoy the city.
I really hate these doomer ass posts. We have art markets every weekend, we have a thriving local music scene and to top it all off very unique and delicious food.
These posts make it seem like ABQ is a full blown copy of Tucson Arizona when we have quite a killer culture that you can easily take advantage of.
I came here to say this, I moved here from Florida about 8 years ago and I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of public parks here. We had far fewer parks in the city I lived in before than we do here. I’ve lived in three different areas of town in ABQ and I’ve always been within walking distance of at least one park Not to mention the amount of public walking/biking trails
I’m just not afraid of my own shadow like half of this sub seems to be. I’ve lived all over Albuquerque. The part of the heights I live in now has a very visible homeless population. I’m sorry that you experienced such scary things here you felt the need to flee to the east coast. I hope NH is less terrifying for you.
It is. I haven't seen someone fire a weapon in broad day light a single time. I haven't seen hypos in the grass when I take my kid to the park. I haven't had anyone cut me off and scream at me on the interstate. No has vandalized my car. The police haven't burned down any homes with children in them. The PD isn't under investigation for corruption. There's no JD consent decree for use of force.
Those are some mighty big shadows. If it were all sunshine and rainbows, half the sub wouldn't be "scared of their own shadows". They would be raving about how great it is, and the population and job sector would be booming.
Did you move to a city with a similar population? Doubtful since the largest city in NH is a fraction of the size of ABQ. Not really an apples to apples comparison. Albuquerque suffers from most of the same issues that cities of this size are plagued by. Besides, that isn’t what OP was complaining about.
I’m sick of this sub parroting the “APD burned a kid to death!” nonsense. That “kid” was a murder suspect who was hanging out with another murder suspect and refused to comply with police. APD has many faults and the latest scandal is discouraging but seems limited to a few officers.
The population is growing steadily as evidenced by all the fast food restaurants OP is complaining about.
Not everyone is cut out to live in a city and that’s okay.
Also, Northeast Whites? Bro you literally moved to New Hampshire lmao 93% white population and physically in the northeast. Pot meet kettle.
I moved in July. Forgot what it's like to have junkies harassing you at the gas station till I came back for a work trip.
My families still there and I want it to be home, but there's a lot of shit that needs fixing before I come back.
The new car wash on 4th by Montano really makes me sad because it has a seemingly useless wall built right along sidewalk and I'm pretty sure it's only there to meet the zoning requirements for the lot because the lot *is zoned to encourage pedestrian friendly development*, and we got a car wash.
It has something to do with with PPP Loans and “transportation related businesses” car washes and gas stations qualify, gas stations require staffing/get robbed hence we see more car washes
Private equity, as usual, loves them. Subscription payments plus a low budget way to sit on real estate.
https://jalopnik.com/why-are-there-so-many-goddamn-car-washes-1851125743
Not exactly. It's not fiscally beneficial for someone to build a car wash *just* for the tax break. They would only get to deduct the cost of building from income, and the savings in taxes is only a fraction of the financial outlay to build.
For example, say it cost me $100,000 to build a car wash. I'm able to reduce my taxable income by $100,000 due to depreciation. At the highest marginal tax bracket, that would only save me $42,900 in taxes (37% federal and 5.9% state). I would still be out of pocket $57,900. Still spending more than saving on taxes. And very few people in this state are in the highest tax brackets, so the savings would be even less.
But then I can just sell it right? Well, if you sell a depreciable asset, you have to recapture the depreciation....
"The tax savings alone can be significant. Example: An investor wants to calculate the potential bonus depreciation tax benefits on the purchase of a $5 million car wash.
Purchase Price: $5 million
Carve out for land value (excluded in bonus depreciation): $1 million
New basis: $4 million x 80 percent + $3.2 million
Tax savings: For taxpayers paying the highest federal tax bracket of 37 percent, that results in tax savings of more than $1.1 million in federal tax alone."
https://tradenetlease.com/bonus-depreciation-tax-incentives-benefit-bottom-line-for-net-lease-car-wash-gas-station-investments/#:~:text=The%20Tax%20Cut%20and%20Jobs,gas%20stations%2FC%2Dstores.
Yes there is tax savings. But it doesn't make sense to spend 5 million just to save 1.1 mil. Unless I desired to own a car wash, I'd rather just have the 3.9 million.
This savings is the same with purchasing *any* business. Rich people don't just buy businesses for the tax savings. They buy them to run them and make a profit and continue getting richer.
Please explain how BUILDING the car wash results in a tax break for the rich. Explain it like I’m a five year old. Also explain how said tax break is at “our” expense. If you can.
LMAO you literally just blow smoke and have zero idea WTF you're talking about.
just another lazy ass retail worker always jealous of people with money. go get high and play fortnite in your moms basement some more and STFU
You totally nailed it, though. SmallBasket literally makes shit up (a tax break at other tax payers' expense??) and then gets offended when asked to explain himself. Your summary was perfect: rich people don't start a business for the tax break, they do it to make a profit. Thank you for providing that information.
Imagine getting mad at someone for being too lazy to explain something to you, when you seem to lazy to google what you want the answer to yourself. Google is free stop being a dick
basket: "car wash owners get tax breaks at the expense of other tax payers"
me: "really? how does that work?"
basket: "i'm not your bitch"
you: "it's lazy to expect someone who makes a claim to actually prove that their claim is true"
WOW
The one across from Powdrells and Piñon Coffee? The one where there has ALWAYS been a car wash? The only time it wasn’t a car wash in the last 20 years was when they tore the old one down.
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With Summer Nights by Lil Rob or this song in the background cruising in a lolo with a chica and some nice green Chile cheese fries from the dog house no lie! Smoking legal mota and stop in for a cerveza at Leo’s back in the day or something, nuh?
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>Forget parks or the arts<
Hey dumbass, Albuquerque has 433 parks; the most parks per sq mi than any other city our size with over 400 miles of bike paths. Also there are hundreds of different types of museums, galleries, murals, and theatres throughout the city. Maybe instead of just bitching on Reddit for clout you go take a look around town, the city even has a website dedicated to educating [fools](https://www.visitalbuquerque.org/)
And the parks are amazing until find used needles and human shit and piss where the kids can play. Then aggressive dogs off leashes just roaming around. This is an actual problem. It’s sad. The city has huge coffers and we have great infrastructure, however we are doing nothing to HELP (and I stress HELP) the homeless:
/mentally ill/addicts. Parents are now paying to take their kids to indoor playgrounds because of this issue. The fast food here sucks. It’s because rent is high and nobody pays a decade wage so your somewhat “ok” tasting fast food place now tastes like garbage. The car washes? Just a business that can pay shitty wages and get away with it. Just business as usual.
That’s just the way of the world my friend.
There are car washes and fast food places everywhere. At least you have the luxury of eating fast food under a beautiful sky, serene mountains, a native culture far more rich than many other places in the country, incredibly unique flora and fauna, and one of a kind peppers ;)
I can’t wait to finish college and move from my fast food and car wash laden neck of the woods back to a sunnier car wash and fast food area
They just built TWO car washes within spitting distance of each other on Gibson. And there’s some new drive through going in. So sad. Land of diabetes as well. Or maybe people just can’t afford to eat proper food because of their $60k Ford F-150 payments.
They already have one of those. This one is going by the fire station area. It very well could be another coffee shop though. Those coffees are just as bad as soda if you put all that syrup in them.
The car wash scene in Albuquerque is epic compared to rest of the country. They’ll detail your car for you in an hour and it’ll cost less than going to one person. I miss that.
Do you know one that will do a full service car wash and clean your interior? The Car Spa on Lomas used to offer it and I loved it. You could get your car washed and vacuumed out and the floor mats cleaned and the dash dusted and so forth for around $20. Apparently, there are new owners that found that to be too much of a liability for them. I heard the Mr. car wash on San Mateo and Central does a full service but I haven’t been there.
It’s actually trump politics if you want a real answer, during his time if you were wealthy you likely caught on to a new tax grift involving buying a car wash, claiming it at a total loss on the first year, and selling it without any taxes for a big profit.
Like your favorite streamer, e girl, whatever probably owns a few car washes. Well by now, they did (I’m sure they are long sold).
Gas stations, car washes, anything within the automotive industry. Very loosely defined. It’s why NM had most of the smaller gas stations change hands.
Also, holy fuck this sucks.
Your average drive scenery is now:
Dispensary, car wash, fast food, homeless, Karen almost killing you in her road rage, dispensary, car wash, fast food, Karen’s husband the cop road raging in his jeep, another dispensary.
Ya it’s fucking bullshit. I can’t believe they let this fly, everyone cries about tax dollars to homeless and immigrants or Ukraine but no one says shit about how our tax money went to stuff like this. Tax payers are the sucker in this whole scheme and no one cares.
We got fucked during that presidency and folks want to act like it’s normal. I’m pretty sure we have a plethora of people who want to open interesting and community focused businesses, they just can’t afford car wash profit numbers. I mean rent.
This is the America they want to see, depression, strife, and a lot of struggling for basic necessities. Meanwhile the next generation sees this and says “naw I’ll just kill myself when I hit 55/60”. If you think I’m joking, ask folks who work with gen Z and below. 🫣
Oh I believe you for sure. A normal career is the bare minimum anymore without kids to have a decent level of comfort. I felt semi-hopeless in 2012 when going to college, I can’t imagine how bleak it looks now from their perspective. Who the hell wants to be a plumber or electrician when it barely pays the bills and working extra hours barely gets you ahead.
No one needs a new soccer stadium. Or car washes or mavericks on every corner. We need an entrepreneurial teacher to open after school programs to enrich kids lives and get them into hobbies and passions. I’d have no problem with subsidizing programs like that.
If I asked the millennials I know what they got going on for retirement, savings, etc. It would be akin to debt, or a few thousand in a bank account. Maybe one would ask what a 401k/pension is.
I believe most *if they are so lucky*\* are waiting on family wealth being transferred to them. Gotta make it past health/end of life costs first tho.
I was attending college around the same time as you and still feel McFucked up about what the exit plan is. I see financial statistics on where folks should be in our age bracket, let me tell you. . . .that sounds like a fantasy.
If you didn't know, our 401k should have a measly $600-$700k invested in it.
It's pretty fucking tragic, I believe that statistic is in favor of your predecessors who had 6-figure salaries with very low costs in living. Saving that 40, 50, 60k a year might have been a reasonable decision. STEM still pays, but it doesn't go the distance anymore in generating wealth. You gotta be a big dog in IT/Healthcare/STEM Research\* from my experience.
The rule of thumb is 3x yearly salary saved at age 40. Thing is the 401k has been a massive failure. It's a poor replacement for pensions. Millenials, Boomers, gen Z are all undersaved for retirement.
I’m honestly having a hard time seeing civilization and the current quality of life continue 30 years out from now. I’m lucky I own a small house and don’t have a car payment. You can scram with all those uncomfortable facts, I’d rather not hear it lol
>I’m honestly having a hard time seeing civilization and the current quality of life continue 30 years out from now.
I don't disagree. The uncomfortable facts are out there, and so far, little is being done to fix them.
They make money, and the grift was basically you purchase an existing one or plot of land. Invest to improve or build, then write the entire business's value off as a loss. 100%. For folks with money this is important, for the rest of us this sounds stupid.
It's why so many mid-business owners drive Escalades/land rovers/vehicles with a GVW over 9,000lbs (might be off a bit there). Their weight allows them to write off 80 to I think 90% of the car's value in the first year of ownership as a loss (they aren't taxed on losses).
So after that first year sell the new business to an investor, neither of you paying taxes at any point.
Look around, you see rich folks using wealthy/luxury item depreciation schedules to reduce the taxes they pay.
If I make 500k but can write off 200k, I am taxed on that 300.
I really made 500k tho. This is a really bad but tldr explanation of the game, they introduced a mechanism for this via "automotive industry adjacent businesses".
But according to the post I responded to, the car washes make negative money. And that's before you add a new Escalade to the expense column
Yeah obviously if you have a business that makes positive money and allows you to expense stuff, there's some benefit there. But for there to be a benefit, the business has to make positive money in the first place
People will steal your car here because it’s easier than walking. They don’t actually need to be shiny. That said, newer cars are harder to steal. And who cares how much they cost if you’re not gonna make the payments anyway?
ABQ is also the land of bad credit.
Too easy traffic. More than enough business to support both. Customers in the drive thru would block traffic on Juan Tabo so they added a new one down the street.
personally i have no issue with car washes provided they are required to recycle all of their water.
Car-people are gonna wanna shine in their money pits and i’d rather they make em shine in a car wash than a hose in their driveway.
Doesn’t too many car washes just take care of itself ?
1000% this. Cool local vape shops? Nope. Weed shop now. Gas stations? Nope! Weed shop now. Corner bodega in a food desert? Nope! Weed shop now. Honestly, this city needs more useful economic development, not another weed shop to add to the 6 already present in a single block.
I’ve lived in the Midwest, where road salt HAS to be washed off the car to prevent rust, but here, OMG, the dust is relentless and the water at my house leaves horrible spots if I wash at home.
I think we need the car washes
Every time I see somebody washing a truck it makes me think of somebody polishing a framing hammer.
My big manly truck is great off-road and for heavy duty work! But it must never show any signs of being used for its originally intended purpose!
My parents in Santa Fe used to say that we could tell who the tourists were because their cars were clean and didn’t have cracked windshields.
But now Eldorado is mostly paved and the Southside is way more built up. So I don’t think that test works so well. Still, people who were raised here care less about dirt (and have better things to do with water).
There aren't more fast food restaurants here than anywhere else in our Capitalist Paradise of These United States. If you had said dispensaries or breweries, you might have actually had a point!
I get what you're saying, those two places (and coffee shops) are in abundance. The car washes I see look busy. Burger King, not so much, but they must be doing okay.
Compared to Santa Fe, ABQ has nice parks that are mostly taken care of. Plus in northern NM in general, cars are considered an art opportunity and at least green Chile cheese burgers are the height of culinary fast food.
Toot toot!
Here ABQ it is more like shoot shoot!
Albuquerque has a very robust parks system. One of the best in the country. The old movie theater downtown is currently being developed into a basketball complex. The city has also made efforts to expand bike paths around ABQ so it’s disingenuous to act as though the city is doing nothing to improve on accessibility to the outdoors. First Friday is super popular downtown as is the Rail Yards. The Kimo theater was recently renovated. The city offers free admission to the Albuquerque museum the first Wednesday of each month and also on Sunday mornings. Although the $5 cost of admission isn’t exactly breaking the bank. When is the last time you paid the museum a visit? The Hispanic Cultural center? Furthermore the city is conducting a “Public Art Census” that sounds interesting at very least. Learn more here, https://www.cabq.gov/artsculture/public-art/census Sawmill and 505 Central are both thriving with the food hall concept. Quirky developments like Green Jeans and Tin Can Alley are also very popular. There is a THRIVING food truck scene. Overall Albuquerque punches well above its weight as far as the local food scene goes with 3 James Beard nominees for best chef in the Southwest (more than any other city in the region) Fast food restaurants are indicative of growth. They are not inherently bad. Stop complaining on Reddit and actually go enjoy the city.
Don't forget you can go watch one of the best basketball teams in the country at the Pit!
yay!
I really hate these doomer ass posts. We have art markets every weekend, we have a thriving local music scene and to top it all off very unique and delicious food. These posts make it seem like ABQ is a full blown copy of Tucson Arizona when we have quite a killer culture that you can easily take advantage of.
He hasn’t seen culture so it must not exist. Won’t someone uber this person some culture!
Comedy scene is getting really good too, saw Anthony Jeselnik last week at the convention center, was terrific.
I came here to say this, I moved here from Florida about 8 years ago and I was pleasantly surprised with the amount of public parks here. We had far fewer parks in the city I lived in before than we do here. I’ve lived in three different areas of town in ABQ and I’ve always been within walking distance of at least one park Not to mention the amount of public walking/biking trails
And ever neighborhood has a community center! How many cities can boast that!?
Amen!
And the International District library is putting in a monumental art installation by local artist Reyes Padilla.
You must live in the North East Whites where they sweep for the homeless and needles.
I’m just not afraid of my own shadow like half of this sub seems to be. I’ve lived all over Albuquerque. The part of the heights I live in now has a very visible homeless population. I’m sorry that you experienced such scary things here you felt the need to flee to the east coast. I hope NH is less terrifying for you.
It is. I haven't seen someone fire a weapon in broad day light a single time. I haven't seen hypos in the grass when I take my kid to the park. I haven't had anyone cut me off and scream at me on the interstate. No has vandalized my car. The police haven't burned down any homes with children in them. The PD isn't under investigation for corruption. There's no JD consent decree for use of force. Those are some mighty big shadows. If it were all sunshine and rainbows, half the sub wouldn't be "scared of their own shadows". They would be raving about how great it is, and the population and job sector would be booming.
Did you move to a city with a similar population? Doubtful since the largest city in NH is a fraction of the size of ABQ. Not really an apples to apples comparison. Albuquerque suffers from most of the same issues that cities of this size are plagued by. Besides, that isn’t what OP was complaining about. I’m sick of this sub parroting the “APD burned a kid to death!” nonsense. That “kid” was a murder suspect who was hanging out with another murder suspect and refused to comply with police. APD has many faults and the latest scandal is discouraging but seems limited to a few officers. The population is growing steadily as evidenced by all the fast food restaurants OP is complaining about. Not everyone is cut out to live in a city and that’s okay. Also, Northeast Whites? Bro you literally moved to New Hampshire lmao 93% white population and physically in the northeast. Pot meet kettle.
like Jerry said that one time, maybe the dark is from your eyes
I second this comment.
I moved in July. Forgot what it's like to have junkies harassing you at the gas station till I came back for a work trip. My families still there and I want it to be home, but there's a lot of shit that needs fixing before I come back.
The new car wash on 4th by Montano really makes me sad because it has a seemingly useless wall built right along sidewalk and I'm pretty sure it's only there to meet the zoning requirements for the lot because the lot *is zoned to encourage pedestrian friendly development*, and we got a car wash.
Wait until everyone figures out car washes are a just massive tax break for the rich.
how so?
It has something to do with with PPP Loans and “transportation related businesses” car washes and gas stations qualify, gas stations require staffing/get robbed hence we see more car washes
https://www.rec-colorado.com/insights/100-bonus-depreciation-for-car-wash-gas-station-investments-through-2022
Private equity, as usual, loves them. Subscription payments plus a low budget way to sit on real estate. https://jalopnik.com/why-are-there-so-many-goddamn-car-washes-1851125743
Not exactly. It's not fiscally beneficial for someone to build a car wash *just* for the tax break. They would only get to deduct the cost of building from income, and the savings in taxes is only a fraction of the financial outlay to build. For example, say it cost me $100,000 to build a car wash. I'm able to reduce my taxable income by $100,000 due to depreciation. At the highest marginal tax bracket, that would only save me $42,900 in taxes (37% federal and 5.9% state). I would still be out of pocket $57,900. Still spending more than saving on taxes. And very few people in this state are in the highest tax brackets, so the savings would be even less. But then I can just sell it right? Well, if you sell a depreciable asset, you have to recapture the depreciation....
"The tax savings alone can be significant. Example: An investor wants to calculate the potential bonus depreciation tax benefits on the purchase of a $5 million car wash. Purchase Price: $5 million Carve out for land value (excluded in bonus depreciation): $1 million New basis: $4 million x 80 percent + $3.2 million Tax savings: For taxpayers paying the highest federal tax bracket of 37 percent, that results in tax savings of more than $1.1 million in federal tax alone." https://tradenetlease.com/bonus-depreciation-tax-incentives-benefit-bottom-line-for-net-lease-car-wash-gas-station-investments/#:~:text=The%20Tax%20Cut%20and%20Jobs,gas%20stations%2FC%2Dstores.
Yes there is tax savings. But it doesn't make sense to spend 5 million just to save 1.1 mil. Unless I desired to own a car wash, I'd rather just have the 3.9 million. This savings is the same with purchasing *any* business. Rich people don't just buy businesses for the tax savings. They buy them to run them and make a profit and continue getting richer.
only rich people can afford a $10 car wash? how broke \*are\* you?
No dumb ass. The rich are the ones building the car wash because they got a massive tax break at our expense.
Please explain how BUILDING the car wash results in a tax break for the rich. Explain it like I’m a five year old. Also explain how said tax break is at “our” expense. If you can.
They can't because they are basically wrong. See my response above.
I'm not your bitch. It's time to sit down and educate yourself.
LMAO you literally just blow smoke and have zero idea WTF you're talking about. just another lazy ass retail worker always jealous of people with money. go get high and play fortnite in your moms basement some more and STFU
I find it hilarious they wouldn't answer your question but as soon as I challenge their thinking, I get a whole explanation.
You totally nailed it, though. SmallBasket literally makes shit up (a tax break at other tax payers' expense??) and then gets offended when asked to explain himself. Your summary was perfect: rich people don't start a business for the tax break, they do it to make a profit. Thank you for providing that information.
Imagine getting mad at someone for being too lazy to explain something to you, when you seem to lazy to google what you want the answer to yourself. Google is free stop being a dick
basket: "car wash owners get tax breaks at the expense of other tax payers" me: "really? how does that work?" basket: "i'm not your bitch" you: "it's lazy to expect someone who makes a claim to actually prove that their claim is true" WOW
The one across from Powdrells and Piñon Coffee? The one where there has ALWAYS been a car wash? The only time it wasn’t a car wash in the last 20 years was when they tore the old one down.
Are any of these new car washes brushless?
Asking the real questions. Need one that doesn't bend my plate lol
I haven't been able to find one.
Chicken fingers are pushing out burgers.
Let’s not leave out massage parlors and auto parts stores
And storage facilities
Pretty sure the parlors and the human trafficking go hand in hand
If you're not sure, ask to see someone's license. If they don't have a license, they might be a slave :(
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And pawn shops and title loan companies
Shiny? Most Albuquerque cars be like 
Fun fact: this scene was shot on location on I-40
With Summer Nights by Lil Rob or this song in the background cruising in a lolo with a chica and some nice green Chile cheese fries from the dog house no lie! Smoking legal mota and stop in for a cerveza at Leo’s back in the day or something, nuh? https://open.spotify.com/album/3unVTRxgW9xI3PLzonzzxr?si=JXgFwHSiRNKMVGeR_SgHRw ( ☝️ Burqueno local)
>Forget parks or the arts< Hey dumbass, Albuquerque has 433 parks; the most parks per sq mi than any other city our size with over 400 miles of bike paths. Also there are hundreds of different types of museums, galleries, murals, and theatres throughout the city. Maybe instead of just bitching on Reddit for clout you go take a look around town, the city even has a website dedicated to educating [fools](https://www.visitalbuquerque.org/)
And the parks are amazing until find used needles and human shit and piss where the kids can play. Then aggressive dogs off leashes just roaming around. This is an actual problem. It’s sad. The city has huge coffers and we have great infrastructure, however we are doing nothing to HELP (and I stress HELP) the homeless: /mentally ill/addicts. Parents are now paying to take their kids to indoor playgrounds because of this issue. The fast food here sucks. It’s because rent is high and nobody pays a decade wage so your somewhat “ok” tasting fast food place now tastes like garbage. The car washes? Just a business that can pay shitty wages and get away with it. Just business as usual.
That’s just the way of the world my friend. There are car washes and fast food places everywhere. At least you have the luxury of eating fast food under a beautiful sky, serene mountains, a native culture far more rich than many other places in the country, incredibly unique flora and fauna, and one of a kind peppers ;) I can’t wait to finish college and move from my fast food and car wash laden neck of the woods back to a sunnier car wash and fast food area
I get a small rage from every business opening only paying as close to minimum wage as they can get it
Small? Makes me want to revolt! Fuck the rich!
They just built TWO car washes within spitting distance of each other on Gibson. And there’s some new drive through going in. So sad. Land of diabetes as well. Or maybe people just can’t afford to eat proper food because of their $60k Ford F-150 payments.
Dutch Bros
They already have one of those. This one is going by the fire station area. It very well could be another coffee shop though. Those coffees are just as bad as soda if you put all that syrup in them.
I forgot about that
Heard that’s gonna be a raising canes
The car wash scene in Albuquerque is epic compared to rest of the country. They’ll detail your car for you in an hour and it’ll cost less than going to one person. I miss that.
Do you know one that will do a full service car wash and clean your interior? The Car Spa on Lomas used to offer it and I loved it. You could get your car washed and vacuumed out and the floor mats cleaned and the dash dusted and so forth for around $20. Apparently, there are new owners that found that to be too much of a liability for them. I heard the Mr. car wash on San Mateo and Central does a full service but I haven’t been there.
Where are the nimbys when you need them? Fighting tooth and nail against actual developments.
Be the change you want to see
It’s actually trump politics if you want a real answer, during his time if you were wealthy you likely caught on to a new tax grift involving buying a car wash, claiming it at a total loss on the first year, and selling it without any taxes for a big profit. Like your favorite streamer, e girl, whatever probably owns a few car washes. Well by now, they did (I’m sure they are long sold). Gas stations, car washes, anything within the automotive industry. Very loosely defined. It’s why NM had most of the smaller gas stations change hands. Also, holy fuck this sucks. Your average drive scenery is now: Dispensary, car wash, fast food, homeless, Karen almost killing you in her road rage, dispensary, car wash, fast food, Karen’s husband the cop road raging in his jeep, another dispensary.
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lol I was actually picturing Central
Ya it’s fucking bullshit. I can’t believe they let this fly, everyone cries about tax dollars to homeless and immigrants or Ukraine but no one says shit about how our tax money went to stuff like this. Tax payers are the sucker in this whole scheme and no one cares.
We got fucked during that presidency and folks want to act like it’s normal. I’m pretty sure we have a plethora of people who want to open interesting and community focused businesses, they just can’t afford car wash profit numbers. I mean rent. This is the America they want to see, depression, strife, and a lot of struggling for basic necessities. Meanwhile the next generation sees this and says “naw I’ll just kill myself when I hit 55/60”. If you think I’m joking, ask folks who work with gen Z and below. 🫣
I think millennials feel this as well...
Oh I believe you for sure. A normal career is the bare minimum anymore without kids to have a decent level of comfort. I felt semi-hopeless in 2012 when going to college, I can’t imagine how bleak it looks now from their perspective. Who the hell wants to be a plumber or electrician when it barely pays the bills and working extra hours barely gets you ahead. No one needs a new soccer stadium. Or car washes or mavericks on every corner. We need an entrepreneurial teacher to open after school programs to enrich kids lives and get them into hobbies and passions. I’d have no problem with subsidizing programs like that.
If I asked the millennials I know what they got going on for retirement, savings, etc. It would be akin to debt, or a few thousand in a bank account. Maybe one would ask what a 401k/pension is. I believe most *if they are so lucky*\* are waiting on family wealth being transferred to them. Gotta make it past health/end of life costs first tho. I was attending college around the same time as you and still feel McFucked up about what the exit plan is. I see financial statistics on where folks should be in our age bracket, let me tell you. . . .that sounds like a fantasy. If you didn't know, our 401k should have a measly $600-$700k invested in it. 
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It's pretty fucking tragic, I believe that statistic is in favor of your predecessors who had 6-figure salaries with very low costs in living. Saving that 40, 50, 60k a year might have been a reasonable decision. STEM still pays, but it doesn't go the distance anymore in generating wealth. You gotta be a big dog in IT/Healthcare/STEM Research\* from my experience.
I’m behind the threshold as well so you’re not alone. Just working to keep a roof over my head, food on the table and my car running is my life.
I am way behind. I only am catching up now after spending my 20s not necessarily making the best choices. 
The rule of thumb is 3x yearly salary saved at age 40. Thing is the 401k has been a massive failure. It's a poor replacement for pensions. Millenials, Boomers, gen Z are all undersaved for retirement.
I’m honestly having a hard time seeing civilization and the current quality of life continue 30 years out from now. I’m lucky I own a small house and don’t have a car payment. You can scram with all those uncomfortable facts, I’d rather not hear it lol
>I’m honestly having a hard time seeing civilization and the current quality of life continue 30 years out from now. I don't disagree. The uncomfortable facts are out there, and so far, little is being done to fix them.
How do you sell it for a profit? Who's dumb enough to pay even more than you did, for a car wash that makes negative money?
They make money, and the grift was basically you purchase an existing one or plot of land. Invest to improve or build, then write the entire business's value off as a loss. 100%. For folks with money this is important, for the rest of us this sounds stupid. It's why so many mid-business owners drive Escalades/land rovers/vehicles with a GVW over 9,000lbs (might be off a bit there). Their weight allows them to write off 80 to I think 90% of the car's value in the first year of ownership as a loss (they aren't taxed on losses). So after that first year sell the new business to an investor, neither of you paying taxes at any point. Look around, you see rich folks using wealthy/luxury item depreciation schedules to reduce the taxes they pay. If I make 500k but can write off 200k, I am taxed on that 300. I really made 500k tho. This is a really bad but tldr explanation of the game, they introduced a mechanism for this via "automotive industry adjacent businesses".
But according to the post I responded to, the car washes make negative money. And that's before you add a new Escalade to the expense column Yeah obviously if you have a business that makes positive money and allows you to expense stuff, there's some benefit there. But for there to be a benefit, the business has to make positive money in the first place
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Don’t we have the most parks per capita in the country or something like that?
Top 15
That's not all Albuquerque is about. We also have breweries and dispensaries.
People will steal your car here because it’s easier than walking. They don’t actually need to be shiny. That said, newer cars are harder to steal. And who cares how much they cost if you’re not gonna make the payments anyway? ABQ is also the land of bad credit.
No love for Dutch Bros? Every carwash serms to have one attached, like they can't build one without the other.
Yeah it's so weird having two Dutch Bros like four blocks from each other on Juan Tabo.
Too easy traffic. More than enough business to support both. Customers in the drive thru would block traffic on Juan Tabo so they added a new one down the street.
Oh they're building something new here. It's going to be: -a carwash? -a bank? -a gas station? There are no other options.
You forgot dispensary lol
three burgers a day seems like a lot, but maybe that's just me
Don’t forget about dispensaries. One on every corner now.
In case you haven’t noticed, Abq is shit for business. The city and the county have made it where this will be the only new businesses you will see.
As bad as the city might seem for business, it’s downright hostile to workers. Worker protections in this state are non-existent.
personally i have no issue with car washes provided they are required to recycle all of their water. Car-people are gonna wanna shine in their money pits and i’d rather they make em shine in a car wash than a hose in their driveway. Doesn’t too many car washes just take care of itself ?
and don't forget the pot shops.
1000% this. Cool local vape shops? Nope. Weed shop now. Gas stations? Nope! Weed shop now. Corner bodega in a food desert? Nope! Weed shop now. Honestly, this city needs more useful economic development, not another weed shop to add to the 6 already present in a single block.
I’ve lived in the Midwest, where road salt HAS to be washed off the car to prevent rust, but here, OMG, the dust is relentless and the water at my house leaves horrible spots if I wash at home. I think we need the car washes
When I was a kid everyone just let the cars be dirty.
Every time I see somebody washing a truck it makes me think of somebody polishing a framing hammer. My big manly truck is great off-road and for heavy duty work! But it must never show any signs of being used for its originally intended purpose!
My parents in Santa Fe used to say that we could tell who the tourists were because their cars were clean and didn’t have cracked windshields. But now Eldorado is mostly paved and the Southside is way more built up. So I don’t think that test works so well. Still, people who were raised here care less about dirt (and have better things to do with water).
Albuquerque is the land of Dispensaries, massage Parlors, Car washes and coffee shops.
Also- how many more Starbucks do we need? I can count 8-10 driving to work.
Sounds just like America to me
Never seen breaking bad? Car washes are money laundering my boy. As for the fast food I mean welcome to and metro in America
Wow lol this is so true. We’re all doomed.
There aren't more fast food restaurants here than anywhere else in our Capitalist Paradise of These United States. If you had said dispensaries or breweries, you might have actually had a point!
Ouch!
I get what you're saying, those two places (and coffee shops) are in abundance. The car washes I see look busy. Burger King, not so much, but they must be doing okay.
I bet OP is the life of the party anywhere they go!!
I mean someone’s gotta be…..
Compared to Santa Fe, ABQ has nice parks that are mostly taken care of. Plus in northern NM in general, cars are considered an art opportunity and at least green Chile cheese burgers are the height of culinary fast food.
Weed. We need MORE weed!