North Dakota "Bubble"?

**Sand Trooper** · 12.21.2011

Originally Posted by Krooser

Sure it does

Honest.... (keeps the warm weather drivers away)....

i'll send a rig up in march to see what happens. Texas is bad enough for me in the winter. but I am curious as to what the summers are like up there. over 100 degrees in Texas for 60 days straight is freaking stupid if you ask me.

**Prairie Boy** · 12.21.2011

Originally Posted by paul 1052

If you're headed up there find living quarters first, I see a lot of guys living in their trucks in Minot. I saw an ad in Kenmare ND advertising just a bedroom for rent at $500 a month.

$500. divided by 30 days = $16.67 per night. Good deal I'd say.

**benthere** · 12.21.2011

i saw some places are charging 900 a month, just to park a rv.

**Logan76** · 12.21.2011

I work in PA/WV/OH hauling water, flowback and fresh. I can say I work very steady. I work for a small company all tri-axle straight trucks (they have more work for them than they do transports due to some of the roads were on). My thoughts on the whole "boom" thing are, You've got to make hay while the sun's shining.

**paul 1052** · 12.23.2011

Originally Posted by Sand Trooper

i'll send a rig up in march to see what happens. Texas is bad enough for me in the winter. but I am curious as to what the summers are like up there. over 100 degrees in Texas for 60 days straight is freaking stupid if you ask me.

Summers aren't bad at all up there, sleep with the truck turned off most nights, days were a welcome relief from Oklahoma summers.

**Skip1965** · 12.29.2011

Originally Posted by SMBdriver

...oil booms and busts happen overnight.

...going just to work, not buy property or put much of your own money in, you should be good even when it busts as long as you don't tie yourself down in the boom/bust area and can move on to greener pastures when it goes south.

The people who get hurt are the ones who buy property at inflated rates during the boom, then literally can't give it away when the jobs and all of the temporary workers are gone.

Well said.

I have spoken with my brother, an oil field rough neck with nearly 40 years experience, and he believes the run is going to be a long one do to the estimates on the volume and other world events they predict will effect crude prices.

DO NOT BUY REAL ESTATE IN A BOOM AREA.

**gravelhauler** · 01.01.2012

Forget the weather, rates and everything else. How long can a man go? By that I mean working 130 hrs a week. Go out, run 40 hrs non-stop, take a shower, eat, sleep 4 or 5 hrs then go out for another 40 or 50 hrs non-stop. How long can the human body take that before it decides to shut down?