I used to live in North Dakota. I am NEVER going back.
Sure, if you need to make some cash, the oilfields are hiring. But at what cost?
Let me tell you what life in North Dakota is like. The first snow tends to fall on Halloween and then it gets ungodly cold VERY quickly. Everyone plugs their cars in when they are at home in order to keep the engines from freezing. Last snow tends to melt in late May, June is like most other places Novembers, and then you have a brief summer that lasts roughly July-August-first 2 weeks of September. This is when the mosquitoes come out- big ones, the size of fruit flies. Clouds and clouds of them.
There is nothing to do there. Nothing. The locals are quite rednecky, the girls are usually overweight, and women wear a constant uniform of baggy jeans and hooded sweatshirts. These women have a bitchy attitude that far outweighs their attractiveness.
A newspaper article is going viral right now- one of the food critics in a North Dakota town wrote up a glowing review of the best restaurant in town- the Olive Garden. When this restaurant opened, there was a 3 hour wait to get inside. I can't post a link due to forum restrictions at the moment, but just Google "Marilyn Hagerty Olive Garden".
If this is how you want to spend some of your prime years in order to make some cash, that is your choice. But do not take this decision lightly, for you will pay a price of misery, misery, misery.
Sure, if you need to make some cash, the oilfields are hiring. But at what cost?
Let me tell you what life in North Dakota is like. The first snow tends to fall on Halloween and then it gets ungodly cold VERY quickly. Everyone plugs their cars in when they are at home in order to keep the engines from freezing. Last snow tends to melt in late May, June is like most other places Novembers, and then you have a brief summer that lasts roughly July-August-first 2 weeks of September. This is when the mosquitoes come out- big ones, the size of fruit flies. Clouds and clouds of them.
There is nothing to do there. Nothing. The locals are quite rednecky, the girls are usually overweight, and women wear a constant uniform of baggy jeans and hooded sweatshirts. These women have a bitchy attitude that far outweighs their attractiveness.
A newspaper article is going viral right now- one of the food critics in a North Dakota town wrote up a glowing review of the best restaurant in town- the Olive Garden. When this restaurant opened, there was a 3 hour wait to get inside. I can't post a link due to forum restrictions at the moment, but just Google "Marilyn Hagerty Olive Garden".
If this is how you want to spend some of your prime years in order to make some cash, that is your choice. But do not take this decision lightly, for you will pay a price of misery, misery, misery.