Dawson Creek

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  1. cariboo_kid

    cariboo_kid Medium Load Member

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    I guess that's why he was offering jobs to occupy protesters that choose to live without a home already. ;)
     
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  3. Onetrack

    Onetrack Light Load Member

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    With the live-out you could drag a trailer up there and have it paid off in a few months tho
     
  4. nate980

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    I was stringing when it slid going down a hill, then going up the hill 3 tiers slid off the back. Imo they should have never tried stringing there.

    I'm in dawson creek right now. Want me to get some job applications? Lol and like I said. Most of the trucks here are out of GP.
     
  5. cariboo_kid

    cariboo_kid Medium Load Member

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    Rental applications would probably be more important lol
     
  6. lostNfound

    lostNfound Road Train Member

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    Get a local girlfriend... no application required.











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    Trust me, you'll want to spend as much time as you can at work anyhow.

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  7. Onetrack

    Onetrack Light Load Member

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    Hey thats Spagetti-Legs.. I remember him.

    On the other side of things.. would it be better to look at a move to GP and then try to get work in the surrounding area? looks like DC is only 1.5 hours away anyways
     
  8. cariboo_kid

    cariboo_kid Medium Load Member

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    Likely a much better plan
     
  9. nate980

    nate980 Road Train Member

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    Grand prairie is pretty busy with oil field work from the looks of it and I doubt they have the same housing situation as dawson creek. Its around an hour and half. Yesterday the highway was closed for some accident so we got directed to some snow covered back road at 11:30 at night. That was fun lol.
     
  10. Runawayscreaming

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    Before relying on the notoriously unreliable Vancouver Province newspaper for any real information whatsoever, one should consider the unfortunate current dynamic in Dawson Creek. The rental situation in Dawson Creek has been tight for quite some time. Landlords are not interested in building apartments despite the obvious demand. House prices in Dawson Creek have actually dropped recently.

    No one is betting the house on Dawson Creek. The current economic "boom" around Dawson Creek is entirely based on gas drilling. EnCana is drawing worldwide attention to itself for overly aggressive practices in the Dawson Creek area. Films have been made. Bombers have blown up pipelines. Fracking has contaminated the water supply. It is a tense situation.

    EnCana has flooded the market with so much gas that gas prices have fallen. Fracking in shale is coming under public scrutiny. There is no reason to believe that the frenetic pace of drilling and fracturing around Dawson Creek will continue unabated.

    Jobs in trucking in Dawson Creek don't pay enough to justify the risk of moving there. That's why there is a truck driver "shortage". You could get a job with a frac crew but there's no telling how long that will last and fracking isn't trucking anyway.

    If the Dawson Creek jobs paid enough there would be guys moving there and living in travel trailers (like Fort McMurray and other places in Alberta).
     
  11. Onetrack

    Onetrack Light Load Member

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    Yeah if you want to see how bad fracking in shale is, all you have to do is watch ' gasland '

    Other than that.. so DC is a bust.. what about fort nelson, fort st john, or mine hauling around the chetwynd, tumbler ridge or hudsons hope?

    I'm still planning an exodus around the northern alberta region on a work hunt, but I can't really figure out where to go, where the work actually is.

    I've got a good line on a company that builds ice roads in fsj, but we'll see.
     
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