It gets only a sliver of attention compared to Los Alamos and Santa Fe, but Española is actually effectively another LANL company town--the lab is the town's biggest employer and a large portion of the lab's workforce lives there, so e.g. sharing the commute up the hill would be easy. And compared to either of the others (or any FAANG city) real estate is cheap (like 3+BR 2000+sqft on half an acre for < $500K).
Except for the nightly drive to Santa Fe.