[Buddha-l] Pew religion dist. map

[Christopher Fynn]

On 30/03/2012, Richard Hayes <rhayes at unm.edu> wrote:
> On Mar 29, 2012, at 11:40 PM, Christopher Fynn <chris.fynn at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Now if all the Buddhists in the US moved to New Mexico what would the
>> percentage there be?
>
> Well over 100%.
>
> Ever since Robert Redford made "The Milagro Beanfield Wars" in Truchas, New
> Mexico, Hollywood folks have been migrating in droves to postcard towns like
> Santa Fe and Taos and Abiquiu. This has had the effect of driving real
> estate prices and property taxes in those towns much higher than anyone on a
> New Mexican salary can afford. And, since all Hollywood folks labor under
> the delusion that they're world-renouncing Buddhists, the population of
> self-proclaimed Buddhists in New Mexico has also ballooned. If all the
> Buddhists with cocaine habits and four Mercedes in their quaint gravel
> driveways were subtracted out, the Buddhist population in New Mexico would
> be somewhere between twelve and fourteen (depending on whether you counted
> on a day when Jim Peavler and I were feeling in a Buddhist  mood).


Have some of Chögyam Trungpa's people set up real estate agencies in
New Mexico yet? I know they have in Halifax, Boulder and several other
places with a fairly well off Buddhist population. From what you say
New Mexico sounds like an lucrative location for Buddhist real estate
agents.