Anyone here lived/live in North Dakota?

A friend of mine said his friend, who is black, was pretty miserable up there. It wasnt all because of the weather either. People up there arent too used to black folks.

pay is good but that's the only good thing about the BAkken

expect work to slow down if oil stays below $80 too

HIV/AIDS has exploded up there because of big oil flooding ND with sex crazed men where there is a shortage of women.

Therefore, sex trafficing and prostitution has exploded, and with it HIV/AIDS.

Lisa Ling told me that.

Yep pretty much sucks. It is like the modern equivalent of a gold rush town back in the Wild West.

There is a lot of money being made, but prices are also inflated on everything too as a result.

For example anyone who owns land is renting out pieces of the land for people to park trailers on, and they will fit as many trailers as possible on the land they own. Just the space needed to park a camper trailer will cost about $1500 per month, and that is without any power, water, etc.

You can look at all of the infrastructure and just know that in several years there will be sage brush rolling through abandoned streets.

It really is interesting to see in person.

Oh and the winter there is among the worst on earth. Best of luck

I have some extended family in Minot who tell me about the good ol' days prior to the boom.

Prior to the boom, the residents would just leave their cars running in the parking lots of stores during the winter while they were in doing their business. Or how residents would leave the keys in their vehicles at night incase a fellow local's car broke down on the side of the road, in winter, the broke down person would be able to get home and not freeze to death.

That definitely does not happen anymore. The crime rate has shot through the roof.

I worked on the rigs in ND for three years. Winters were pretty miserable. Months at a time of negative Temps (worst I experienced was 65 below with wind chill...about 45 below actual).

Being from the south I was not prepaired for those winters. Just get a ton of under armor extreme cold gear and layer your clothing. That's makes it a little less miserable.

It usually starts to get cold this time of year and probably will last till after march...but all winters are different...Hell we got 14" of snow in one day on like April 24th one year.

DO NOT live in Williston...if that's an option. I haven't been up there for the last couple years but it was the worst of the worst. Bismark, or even Minot are better choices.


Good Luck.


Edit: lows dpiping into the teens this week in Minot.

It starts getting cold in early October and doesn't get warm until mid May. And by warm I mean 50s to low 60s.

I live in South Dakota. The issue is not so much the cold as it is the wind. A 0 degree day is actually not that bad if the sun is out and there is no wind. Sweatshirt weather. But add wind and it gets brutal in a hurry. The Dakotas get a lot of wind.

I was trying to read through the thread to find out where the OP was moving. Fargo or Grand Forks in the eastern side of the state? Great places to live. Fargo is a very nice town that is growing with good jobs in the tech industry. The silicon prairie is what it is dubbed. Williston, Mandan and the Bakkan reserve to work on the oil rigs? Eff that. No way you'd get me to move out there. Great pay but there is a lack of housing, not much of anything to do, crime, and price gouging on everything.

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A friend of mine said his friend, who is black, was pretty miserable up there. It wasnt all because of the weather either. People up there arent too used to black folks.

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I have a black friend who works up there. He is always on FB posting one of two things:
1. how fricking cold it is.
2. pics of his bomb arse BBQ's he's throwing down b/c he's making bank and has some hookup on steak and beef in general.