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spent yesterday watiching documentaries about north Dakota oil boom----very depressing and scary....though also should make me grateful for what I have, AND re-wire my brain to be unfazed by challenges.
people leave sunny California and florida----to sleep in their cars, for months, in ten degree north Dakota, in the winter....and they seem HAPPY enough about it.
the rewards for sleeping in their car, in ten degree weather, is 90 thousand dollars a year jobs, and eventually...eventually...an actual apt----so that makes all the bad times worthwhile.
of course, there are people, 18 yr olds, with no skills/etc, who take a bus from Arizona/wherever, and expect a salvation army or homeless shelter to be in the middle of 100 miles of nowhere/mostly farmland....
But, it is amazing how so many people seem to have a smile and joke about sleeping in tents, in garbage dumpsters, in ten degree weather, in north Dakota boom town.
people leave sunny California and florida----to sleep in their cars, for months, in ten degree north Dakota, in the winter....and they seem HAPPY enough about it.
the rewards for sleeping in their car, in ten degree weather, is 90 thousand dollars a year jobs, and eventually...eventually...an actual apt----so that makes all the bad times worthwhile.
of course, there are people, 18 yr olds, with no skills/etc, who take a bus from Arizona/wherever, and expect a salvation army or homeless shelter to be in the middle of 100 miles of nowhere/mostly farmland....
But, it is amazing how so many people seem to have a smile and joke about sleeping in tents, in garbage dumpsters, in ten degree weather, in north Dakota boom town.
I had a few ppl try to get me to go up there and the answer was "I didn't lose any thing up there."
I have been in booms before and one has to be intrepid. It isn't all about the money, a lot of people are there for the adventure and the money is a perc. Thing is if you keep very busy the down side of where your living don't seem too bad. then there is the knowledge that your not going to take up roots in the high plains.
Makes for fun times if you can winter it out though.