The North Dakota Town Where A One-Bedroom Apartment Rents For $2,100 A Month | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 10246824 Canada 01/11/2013 01:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Williston North Dakota is in the Heart of the Bakken oil boom for the U.S. There is another boom across the border in South East Saskatchewan & South Western Manitoba. Hookers earn more money in Williston North Dakota than they do in Las Vegas. A very young man fresh out of high school asked the bank for a loan to build a hotel. The bank said no! So he went to Weatherford (a oil & gas service company) and asked them if they needed rooms for their employees. They said yes and promissed to rent every room for 5 years and signed a legal agreement. He went back to the bank and now owns a brand new hotel. Williston North Dakota is projected to have a population of 400 000 in another 4 years. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 10246824 Canada 01/11/2013 01:46 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | P.S. Williston has more than one department store, a walmart, most restaurant chains, ect. All the major corporations are building franchises. Walmart doesn't even bother stocking the shelves, they roll everything out on crates and the people pick it bare immediatetly. |
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anonimalle User ID: 23646376 United States 01/11/2013 09:43 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A plain, one-bedroom apartment in Williston, N.D., rents for $2,100 a month. For this price, you could rent a one-bedroom apartment in New York City. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17623056 Williston is not New York City. There are 30,000 residents and one department store. The nearest city is two hours away. Went through there this past summer. It is crazy. RV parked where there is no water or sever. Stayed in a town 100 miles away in Montana and there were workers driving it everyday to work. Almost sold my 5th wheel. Should have. We have friends with a start up business there and hubby would be hired right off. However money is not everything eh? [link to www.npr.org] Behind every myth lies a mystery, and every legend holds an echo of the truth …… Que Sera Sera "For not by numbers of men nor by measure of body but by valor of soul is war decided" Bilisarius " At the siege of Vienna in 1683 Islam seemed poised to overrun Christian Europe. We are in a new phase of a very old war." Gates of Vienna. "May we smite our enemies to the darkest chamber of hell, for we wish only to live in peace, and they desire only to put their boot upon our neck." |
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Buck Zander User ID: 26745463 Canada 01/11/2013 10:47 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | [link to www.youtube.com] Scene from Fargo, set in ND. And you make fun of Kenediens. lol Last Edited by Buck Zander on 01/11/2013 10:49 PM There must be a law that people can't lie. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 31928073 United States 01/11/2013 10:57 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm from there. Moved away in 06 before the boom hit., Went back for the first time this spring. Got family there still, and many many friends. The boom fucked up that town. This is not a good thing. Williston wasn't very good to begin with, but this boom fucked everything up. Locals are being forced into homelessness by greedy real estate owners who want a piece of the pie. It's sick what has happened there. There has been more murders in Williston since I left, than there was the entire 17 years I called that shit hole my home. And the local law enforcement is so corrupt, inept, and backward, I'd be surprised if they could figure out how to conduct a proper murder investigation. Think about what that NPR piece is telling you. It's a living horror. Put yourselves in the shoes of the people who call that place home. Hookers make more money in Williston than they do in Vegas?! These people who call Williston home, they don't recognize such as daily life where they grew up. That came with the boom, and is new. All the violence, the influx of drugs and the increase in rapes, the town was a bit rowdy when I grew up there, yeah, but this is ludicrous. And those people that chased after the boom, even NPR tells you they won't bring family there, won't call Williston home. They don't care enough to give that place due respect, treat it's people right, and contribute to society. That boom attracted the parasites, those who's only purpose there is to get as much as they can and leave. It's all about the Benjamen's |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 31482895 United States 01/11/2013 11:00 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So oil companies push regular folks out of rural areas OP? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31482895 Fuckers. Shut your mouth you communist piece of trash. I aint no commie, I like rural folk over oil companies so fuck off. They should have decent rent not oil barons fucking their town over. Anyway the commies have shitloads of oil and this is how Stalin treats people so if you support this, then YOU are the fucking commie, Joseph. Desperate oil men and hookers acting in mob fashion to frack the land? That's lame. |
KateSask User ID: 15170057 Canada 01/11/2013 11:13 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Spend a month in North Dakota and you'll be talking like this: Quoting: Buck Zander [link to www.youtube.com] Scene from Fargo, set in ND. And you make fun of Kenediens. lol LMAO, do they really talk like that because they're just a few hundred miles south of us and we don't???? |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 9787765 United States 01/11/2013 11:14 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ha I live in florida I can get a 2bedroom apartment for over $600 a month I may make less here but when you think about and add up the monthly cost its pretty pointless to move there unless you want to do the oil thing go for it but live in a boring place. |
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KateSask User ID: 15170057 Canada 01/11/2013 11:28 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ha I live in florida I can get a 2bedroom apartment for over $600 a month I may make less here but when you think about and add up the monthly cost its pretty pointless to move there unless you want to do the oil thing go for it but live in a boring place. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 9787765 That is cheap. Wow! |
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pinkshirtguy User ID: 1511503 United States 01/11/2013 11:42 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Does anybody know how to get a job there besides actually going there? I have heard they only hire people who show up in person. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31702098 yes. I am very familiar with a company that does business there. 21 days on, 21 off.. $750/day which averages out to just under $250k/yr. Its my understanding that Williston doesn't want people opening up businesses if they aren't from there. Its been like this for at least a year... Im assuming longer. It's a little insane how much it is to live there. poyl |
pinkshirtguy User ID: 1688764 United States 01/11/2013 11:45 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So oil companies push regular folks out of rural areas OP? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31482895 Fuckers. Shut your mouth you communist piece of trash. I aint no commie, I like rural folk over oil companies so fuck off. They should have decent rent not oil barons fucking their town over. Anyway the commies have shitloads of oil and this is how Stalin treats people so if you support this, then YOU are the fucking commie, Joseph. Desperate oil men and hookers acting in mob fashion to frack the land? That's lame. less than 5% unemployment for the state. Not so gay if you ask me. poyl |
Ad Lib User ID: 24338672 United States 01/11/2013 11:58 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Spend a month in North Dakota and you'll be talking like this: Quoting: Buck Zander [link to www.youtube.com] Scene from Fargo, set in ND. And you make fun of Kenediens. lol LMAO, do they really talk like that because they're just a few hundred miles south of us and we don't???? No, they don't. The local dialect is extremely exaggerated for good laughs. Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid, it is true that most stupid people are conservative. John Stuart Mill ************ It's much harder to be a liberal than a conservative. Why? Because it is easier to give someone the finger than a helping hand. Mike Royko |
KateSask User ID: 15170057 Canada 01/12/2013 12:08 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Spend a month in North Dakota and you'll be talking like this: Quoting: Buck Zander [link to www.youtube.com] Scene from Fargo, set in ND. And you make fun of Kenediens. lol LMAO, do they really talk like that because they're just a few hundred miles south of us and we don't???? No, they don't. The local dialect is extremely exaggerated for good laughs. Oh that's good to know! |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 1550123 United States 01/12/2013 12:14 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | A plain, one-bedroom apartment in Williston, N.D., rents for $2,100 a month. For this price, you could rent a one-bedroom apartment in New York City. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 17623056 Williston is not New York City. There are 30,000 residents and one department store. The nearest city is two hours away. [link to www.npr.org] That is because people are making money hand over fist there because of the oil industry. And the more money the majority of people make in an area the more things are going to cost. So all that money people are making there is really not that much since the cost to live there is so expensive now. Many of the locals and retired people have had to move out because they can't afford to live there anymore. At one restaurant there are two menus. The regular one for the locals and the more expensive ones for the people in the oil industry. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 31778716 United States 01/12/2013 12:15 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I would move there right away if I didn't know that it would be like moving to hell. Terrible weather, low culture, and being surrounded by the type of people I hate doesn't sound like a good life no matter what I get paid. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25427338 United States 01/12/2013 12:17 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | I'm from there. Moved away in 06 before the boom hit., Went back for the first time this spring. Got family there still, and many many friends. The boom fucked up that town. This is not a good thing. Williston wasn't very good to begin with, but this boom fucked everything up. Locals are being forced into homelessness by greedy real estate owners who want a piece of the pie. It's sick what has happened there. There has been more murders in Williston since I left, than there was the entire 17 years I called that shit hole my home. And the local law enforcement is so corrupt, inept, and backward, I'd be surprised if they could figure out how to conduct a proper murder investigation. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 31928073 Think about what that NPR piece is telling you. It's a living horror. Put yourselves in the shoes of the people who call that place home. Hookers make more money in Williston than they do in Vegas?! These people who call Williston home, they don't recognize such as daily life where they grew up. That came with the boom, and is new. All the violence, the influx of drugs and the increase in rapes, the town was a bit rowdy when I grew up there, yeah, but this is ludicrous. And those people that chased after the boom, even NPR tells you they won't bring family there, won't call Williston home. They don't care enough to give that place due respect, treat it's people right, and contribute to society. That boom attracted the parasites, those who's only purpose there is to get as much as they can and leave. It's all about the Benjamen's This is silly. Most workers on the rigs are people who know how to keep a job. Including axcillary employments. If they werent they wouldnt keep the job. Hard working southerns for the most part. Texas, lousiana, oklahoma. Family orientated, christian, hard working. They're alittle diff but not that diff. . This is coming from someone born in ND and working in the bakken over a year. |