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This is the third time in a week I've heard a story about Williston, ND. First was Planet Money, "Turning a Boom Town into a Real Town": http://www.npr.org/blo
by scott_s 14y ago
This is the third time in a week I've heard a story about Williston, ND.
First was Planet Money, "Turning a Boom Town into a Real Town": http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/01/08/168871212/episode-428-turning-a-boomtown-into-a-real-town http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2013/01/08/168871212/episode-...
Second was an NY Times story about how the overwhelming number of single men in Williston makes, in the best case, dating difficult, and in the worst case, has caused an increased in reported sexual assaults: "An Oil Town Where Men Are Many, and Women are Hounded": http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/us/16women.html http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/us/16women.html
And when I searched Google to find the article I read yesterday, I discovered several stories on Williston from last year: http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+times+williston+north+dakota http://www.google.com/search?q=ny+times+williston+north+dako...
- zecho 14y agoThe pay at McDonald's in Williston is around $18/hour starting. Kids keep leaving for the fields, though, because if they have a skill, they can make twice as much. It's not without problems, though. Public school teachers in Dickinson are being bunked in community housing because the rent has skyrocketed. Most people will building skills aren't building houses, either, so many of these men working the fields are living in their trucks or in temporary housing or in RVs at Walmarts.