The Long-Term Unemployed Are Doomed

Re:The Long-Term Unemployed Are Doomed by tokenadult on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @11:47AM (#6888644)

Historically, North Dakota hasn't been a fun place to live, and it has lost population to other states during most of my lifetime. The oil boom is a new phenomenon there, and the "cities" near the oil fields have few fun places at which to spend the money earned by the oilfield workers. This may change over time if the oil production and natural gas production is sustained, and infrastructure development continues there. So an early comment of mine for more details.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5072755

P.S. The cities in Minnesota mentioned in the article that was submitted to open the thread are not particularly close to North Dakota and are not tied to the petroleum economy. They are college towns and rather pleasant to live in.

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Re:The Long-Term Unemployed Are Doomed by batbomb on Wednesday December 11, 2013 @12:30PM (#6889018)

...and few women. People complain about Silicon Valley being low on women, those people have never witnessed an oil boom.

I wouldn't be surprised if Minnesota's economy was experiencing at least partial boom due to North Dakota in any case. You have tons of weekend warriors who drive 6+ hours a day routinely that aren't afraid to drive 6 hours to civilization, and even though the oil fields have infrastructure, they're still sourcing it from wherever they can get it.

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