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Shirley McLaine is selling her 7,000 acre ranch at Abiquiu, NM. That's the place where Georgia O'Keefe lived and Robert Lee Morris used to talk about his place there. It's about an hour North of Santa Fe.

There is what looks like a beautiful 6,000 sq. ft. adobe house. There is a large reservoir in the area and beautiful desert terrain with mountain and magnificent cliff views.

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I saw her on Oprah once and they showed that ranch. It is gorgeous. I lived in NM for a short time and it was a beautiful place. You are right, her place is magnificent!

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Here's a link with a video. Beautiful place.

http://www.oprah.com/oprahshow/Tour-of-Shirley-MacLaines-Home-and-Ranch-Video

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New Mexico is a beautiful state, I lived there for a year and a half back in the 80's and was sorry to leave.

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As water become more scarce, I wouldn't live in NM or any other dry arid state.

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How lovely to retire there. (If you could afford the upkeep).

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Thanks for the video kachina.

I wondered why she decided to sell that magnificent place so I googled around and found this.

Ms. MacLaine is selling because she wants to spend more time in Santa Fe, where she purchased a house six years ago. "I want to go to the movies, good restaurants," she said. "I really need to be closer, or I would tend to become a complete recluse out there."

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303626804579505702689748412

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Interesting...TY!

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On 4/18/2014 glb613 said:

As water become more scarce, I wouldn't live in NM or any other dry arid state.

Apparently Ms. MacLaine doesn't consider it to be an issue as the property has two swimming pools. I don't either...we all conserve water and are doing fine. She will be 80 years old next week; most older people want to be closer to medical facilities and there are none in that area. She already owns a home in Santa Fe too.
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I've never considered living in NM, I think of desert.