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Hardly Any Civility, In Primitive Dickinson, North Dakota

April 4, 2017Uncategorizedbackwards businesses in Dickinson North Dakota, backwards people in Dickinson North Dakota, lack of civility in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, primitive behavior in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what are businesses like in Dickinson North Dakota, what are people in Dickinson North Dakota like, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

About one month ago, I was ready to leave Dickinson. The economy is not doing very well in Dickinson, work at my current job is slow, there are very few job openings, and there are very few good jobs. The owner of the house where I live in Dickinson was behaving like he needed to have an involuntary medical and mental evaluation. It appeared that it was time for me to go.

It was going to take me about three trips to drive my trucks, trailers, equipment, and personal belongings back to Idaho. I moved one truck, and about half of my equipment back to Idaho in early March. While I was back in Idaho, though the people were surprisingly friendly in comparison to North Dakota, and I wanted to stay, I realized that I could not stay. Job openings and good jobs are still scarce in Idaho, and the wages are low. I don’t really understand how everyone that I dealt with during my trip back to Idaho was so pleasant, helpful, and cordial, when they make barely enough or less than enough to get by. The convenience store cashiers, fast food workers, restaurant workers, hotel clerks, hardware store employees, and the employees of other businesses were all friendly and helpful. (This is civility, even though these people were just barely getting by financially, or making less than enough to get by, they were still pleasant, friendly, helpful, and cordial.)

Idaho was a little better and nicer than how I remembered it, so settled down and pleasant. I began to think, and I became more and more convinced, that the hoodlums, dirt bags, drug addicts, and white trash must have mostly left Idaho and moved to North Dakota for the oil boom, and stayed there.

I did some work on my house in Idaho for a few days. I knew that I had to drive back to Dickinson, North Dakota to either get more trucks, trailers, and equipment to bring back to Idaho, or stay in Dickinson and find another job. My neighbors to the north of me in Idaho, they had left their home in Idaho in 2011 to go to work in Texas, because the wages were so low in Idaho. They were still gone, leaving their home sitting there vacant, like I had been doing since 2011 also.

When I arrived back in Dickinson, North Dakota after being gone for about a week, the owner of the house where I live in Dickinson was on his best behavior. Once it got to be about 9:00 p.m., he went to his bedroom and stayed there for the rest of the night, instead of yelling, screaming, and talking to himself in the living room all night. I had worked with developmentally disabled people, mentally disabled people, and terminally ill people for about three years in the past. These people can have hallucinations and delerium all night, for all kinds of reasons, and then be O.K. during daylight hours. I don’t know many people that could have put up with this yelling, screaming, and talking to no one all night, for very long. When it became too much for me, I tried to find someone that would let me park my two extra trucks and two equipment trailers on their farm property in Dickinson, so that I could move into an apartment. But not even people with 300 acres or 3,000 acres would let me park two trucks and two trailers on their property in Dickinson. (This is a lack of civility. In Idaho, people with a 1/4 acre lot would have tried to find a place for me to park one of my trucks and one of my trailers.)

After I was back in Dickinson for two weeks, a man called me to ask me if I could do some work for him. I said to him that I had taken about half of my equipment back to Idaho, but I would look at what he had, and see what I could do. I had been thinking to myself that I did not want to do any more self employment contracting work in Dickinson, North Dakota because I believed that the money was gone from here. Though most of my customers in Dickinson had been nice to me, overall, I have a terrible opinion of the people in Dickinson because of so many bad experiences with the people here, and I did not want to do any more contracting work in Dickinson. This is one reason why the first thing that I took back to my home in Idaho was my equipment, I did not want to do any work for the people in Dickinson any more.

I looked at what work the man needed done. Though I wouldn’t have to spend all day at his house, the job would take up a whole day for me due to the amount of equipment that I would need to load, bring, unload, re-load, take home, and unload. A lot of trouble, a lot of responsibility, a lot of liability, for not much money. I did not want to do this job, but I gave him a price that would pay for my labor, with no profit. I knew from the first time that I worked for him, that he was tight.

As we stood there beside his nice home, and his brand new car, I handed him my estimate. He did not like my estimate, it was too high. Keep in mind, as I have just explained, I did not want this job, it was too much trouble, responsibility, and liability for just a small amount of money, that was just for my labor, with no profit. When you do contracting work, when you don’t wan to do a job, you double your estimate so that you don’t have to do the job, but I didn’t want to be rude or be an asshole. (This is civility, trying to help and be polite to a customer, even though the job pays very little and you don’t want the job.)

When you do contracting work, you are never supposed to break down your work estimate into all the details, because it is not good business practice to show and explain all of your costs and expenses. Explaining the details would allow someone else to start the same business, it leads to someone trying to do the work themselves when all of the details are explained, and it leads to the customer questioning and debating costs, including what you pay yourself for labor. In this case, because I knew that this customer was so tight, I wrote out what all the costs were. I gave this customer the previous receipts so he could verify these costs, possibly try to do the work himself, or possibly try to get someone else to do the work. As he could see, what was left over for labor was not very much. He said that he had to think about this and get back to me, which meant he had to call some other people to get estimates.

What I did not tell this customer, was that in order to do this job, I was going to have to go buy $300 to $800 worth of equipment to replace the equipment that I had just taken back to Idaho. The cost of this equipment was more than I would make on this job. I would have to use this equipment on many more jobs in order to pay for it and actually make money with this new equipment, which would be speculating and taking a chance that I would have more contracting work in Dickinson.

Not wanting this contracting job, and not wanting to go buy equipment to replace the equipment that I had just taken back to Idaho, I went to a local equipment dealer in Dickinson where I had bought this same equipment for $800 last year. The dealer had one piece of equipment that I needed the most, in stock for $350. The second $450 piece of equipment was less critical for this job and he had several of these. I explained to the equipment dealer that I had taken half of my equipment back to Idaho, that is why I needed to buy this same equipment again from him. I said that I was waiting on the go ahead from the customer. I asked the equipment dealer if he was likely to sell this piece of equipment in the next week, and he said no. I asked him if he did sell it, how long would it take him to re-order it and get one here, he said three days.

I had been to this equipment dealer in Dickinson about five or six times in the past three years concerning equipment repair and replacement. He had always been kind of rude to me. I thought that his attitude would change and be more positive after I began buying equipment from him, which I did on three occasions Just in case the piece of equipment that I needed got sold, I went to other equipment dealers in Dickinson to see what else I could get that might work, though it wouldn’t be exactly what I wanted.

After about a week had passed since I gave the customer my estimate, which he thought was too high, he called me to tell me to go ahead and do the work. I thought that he had had enough time to get other work estimates, which I believe he did, and mine was probably the lowest. I had to arrange for a time when the homeowner would be home for me to do the work.

I went to the equipment dealer in Dickinson to buy the piece of equipment that I had looked at, and it was gone. It had been sold. I was frustrated because I had agreed to do this job, which I did not want, which would pay very little, and I had to buy new equipment, which I already had in Idaho, and this equipment cost more than I would make on this job, and now this equipment was not even available. I was not rude, but I was upset, and I asked the equipment dealer how long would it take to order this equipment and get it to Dickinson. The equipment dealer was rude, shitty, and hostile acting to me, so I told him I was sorry he no longer had the equipment, and I left. (This is the primitive lack of civility in Dickinson. I was there to buy equipment that the dealer had in stock, but he had sold it, so I wanted to order it. This is completely backwards that a business owner would become rude, shitty, and hostile when you are trying to buy expensive equipment from him.)

I went to a few other businesses in Dickinson to see what I could get. One equipment dealer in Dickinson had something that I could make work, but it was not what I wanted. I bought two pieces of equipment, and took them back to the house where I live in Dickinson to start working on them. I was working on these two pieces of equipment in the side yard, when I saw and heard a new Ford F250 diesel extended cab 4×4 try to drive as fast as they possibly could go, down the residential street in front of the house.

The speed limit in this neighborhood is 25 mph. There are infants that were just born whose mothers push them down the street in strollers, toddlers that are just learning to walk that walk down to the end of their driveways, children that are just learning to ride their bicycles that ride in the street, high school kids that are just learning to drive, and elderly people in their 80s that slowly back out of their driveways that can’t see and can’t hear like they used to. This was just the icing on the cake in Dickinson, some worthless, ignorant, uneducated, white trash, piece of shit oil field worker that has to drive his 7,000 lb truck up to 60 mph so that there is no way he could possibly stop in time to keep from hitting someone’s toddler, young child, high schooler, or elderly grandparents. There is no civility here, the people are so ignorant and primitive.

Locum Tenens, Sugit Loco Isto, Dickinson, North Dakota

Dickinson, North Dakota goes through a lot of doctors and nurses. As I explained in a recent previous blog post, I see brochures, pamphlets, newspaper advertisements, and press releases about a new medical professional arriving at an office, clinic, or facility in Dickinson, and then within a couple of months, they are out of here.

It really does not look good on a medical professional’s resume, to accept a position, and then leave within just a few months. It looks like something went wrong, like there might possibly be something wrong with this medical professional. It makes a prospective employer wonder what went wrong, what happened, and is this person likely to do this again?

A medical professional sure had better have a good reason for taking off so quickly. They do, “It was Dickinson, North Dakota.”

As I explained in a recent previous blog post, a medical professional could spend half of their income on a place to live in Dickinson, and they would still be living amongst dirty uneducated oil field workers, and having to listen to and smell their dirty diesel truck loudly idling right outside their windows. In addition to this, the local facility administrators and the local nurses are ignorant, locally educated, primitive, backwards, mean, hostile, unfriendly, not cooperative, not helpful, and hateful. This is why Dickinson goes through so many doctors and nurses.

In order to fill the medical staff shortages, many facilities in Dickinson hire doctors and nurses through temporary agencies. These medical professionals are referred to as “locums”. I asked a doctor if they were referred to as a “locum”, and they said yes, actually, more formally they were referred to as a “locum tenens”.

I had at least three years of French, which is based on Latin, and one year of Latin, and it was annoying and puzzling to me that the temporary medical professionals were referred to as “locums” or “locum tenens”, because these words have nothing to do with medicine, and I wondered what the hell they were talking about. The literal translation of “locum tenens” means “place holder”, I looked it up.

Back in a more civilized time in world history, temporary medical professionals were referred to as “locum tenens” or “place holder”, because they were merely filling in for a medical professional who was absent or on leave. I was reading this, and I was thinking to myself about Dickinson, “Yeah, right, absent or on leave, Ha!”

I have got to find a better Latin name for the medical professionals who come to Dickinson, North Dakota to fill the staff shortages which are a result of the hostile hateful local administrators, nurses, and poor living conditions in Dickinson. What is a Latin phrase for coming to work in a horrible place, or what is a Latin phrase for coming to work where the local co-workers and administrators keep driving people away?

Using an English to Latin translation, “working in a horrible place” translates to “opus horrendo loco”. “Working with bad people” translates to “mala operatus est populus”. “This place sucks” translates to “sugit loco isto”.

I think that advertisements for “locum tenens” in Dickinson, North Dakota should be supplemented with “sugit loco isto”, to be more accurate and not misleading.

I Am The Most Influential Person Now In Dickinson, North Dakota

March 15, 2017Uncategorizedbad things about Dickinson North Dakota, Information on Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what are people like in Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I recently did a Google search for about fifteen different topics concerning Dickinson, North Dakota, and my website comes up near the top of the first page of search results every time. I said it before, anyone, anywhere in the world, gets their information about Dickinson, North Dakota from me.

I don’t want to be popular, I don’t want to be invited to parties, I want to be the dead chicken around everyone’s neck. And like a dead chicken around your neck, I want to keep getting worse, reminding you what you did.

Some of the Worst things in Dickinson:

There were no Ethics, Morals, or Decency in what people in Dickinson did to other people during this most recent oil boom when it came to rent and the cost of housing. Retail store prices might have increased by 5% to 10%, repair service prices might have increased by 15% to 25%, wage rates might have increased by 10% to 40%, but rent and housing prices increased by 400% to 500%. Many long time local residents could no longer afford the cost of housing. Many out of state workers could not afford the cost of housing and slept in their vehicles. There was no reason for 400% to 500% cost increases in housing other than greed.
The Catholic Church is the biggest social influence in Dickinson, North Dakota. The Catholic priests, the Catholic Church leaders, and the Catholic congregations ignored and turned their back on all Christian principles such as, “Do unto others, as you would have them do unto you”, “So as you do to the least of my people, so do you unto me”, “What profiteth a man that he gain the whole world, yet lose his soul? Or what shall he give in exchange for his soul?” In fact, the Catholics actually used their social influence and networks to organize, orchestrate, and control the taking advantage of people.
The local company owners, the local manufacturing companies, and the local people hate, mistreat, and disrespect educated people in every way possible. Out of fear of being outsmarted and losing control, local company owners seek to hire people who are less intelligent and less educated than themselves, which makes Dickinson one of the least educated and most ignorant places in the United States. Local companies and manufacturing companies in Dickinson do not hire engineers, instead they offer $18 per hour for “engineering” positions which are filled by people with not even good High School educations. All of Dickinson functions at a very low level. The most underpaid people in Dickinson are the professors at Dickinson State University who are paid about the same as unskilled laborers.
In order to staff the restaurant, bar, and retail positions during the recent oil boom, local companies did not perform background checks on these employees. Vast numbers of mentally ill, criminal, and drug addicted women came to Dickinson to work at these jobs that did not perform any background checks. The trashiest, lowest class, most corrupt women that you will ever find moved to Dickinson and many of them are still here.
Because Dickinson allowed all of the things above to take place and could not see that these things were wrong, most people made up their mind that they would never stay in Dickinson.

Getting A DUI In Dickinson, North Dakota

February 4, 2017Uncategorizedarrested for DUI in Dickinson North Dakota, being followed by the police in Dickinson North Dakota, getting a DUI in Dickinson North Dakota, going out in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

On Saturday evening the owner of the house where I live in Dickinson, North Dakota started on an angry rant while I was asleep on the sofa. I woke up and asked him what is wrong with him, and I said I had to go someplace else.

I had no intention of going out this evening, but now I had to. The Paragon Bowling Alley diner has prime rib night on Saturday, so that is where I went. Luckily for me, two nice waitresses that I knew and get along with, were working in the diner on this night. I saw some other people that I knew sitting in the diner. The prime rib that I ordered was very good. One of the bar waitresses and one of the bartender women came into the diner and they were both attractive, pleasant, and friendly.

I hardly ever go into the bar at the Paragon Bowling Alley, but I needed to not go home yet, and the women staff this night were pretty and nice. When I went into the bar, I don’t know where the other women staff went, but Morticia and Divine were behind the bar, so I left.

With nothing to do, I drove east on Villard to the Family Dollar to buy some paper towels, and walk down every aisle looking for anything else to buy. I didn’t want to go to any other bar in Dickinson, because the police try as hard as they can to get everyone for a DUI, but I didn’t want to go home, and there is no where else to go. I thought that I would drive downtown and maybe go to The Rock Bar, Bernie’s Esquire Club, or the Eagles Lodge.

Driving east on Villard toward downtown, I passed a police car that was going west. Then when I drove past the Rock Bar downtown, I passed another police car. The police, and the lack of attractive women in bars in Dickinson, was making me just want to drive back to where I live. I drove past the Esquire Club and the Eagles Lodge, I didn’t feel like going in. I got back on Villard to drive west back home. A police car got behind me and followed me for about a mile to the end of Villard.

I didn’t like being followed by the police all the way to the end of Villard. I was in the left lane driving 25 mph, the police car was in the right lane driving 25 mph. Because of the snow and ice on Villard, you could drive for a couple of blocks without seeing the lane markings at all. The tire tracks from all the previous vehicles that had melted through the snow down to pavement in the left lane, were not actually in the left lane, the worn in tire tracks crossed into the right lane. What was I supposed to do? It is safer to drive in the tire tracks of all the previous vehicles that have worn down through the snow to the pavement, which is what most people do, especially when you can’t see the lane markings, but I had to drive on top of the snow and ice for a mile because there was a police car just behind me and to my right.

The police officer was just hoping and waiting for me to cross over a lane marking, which were mostly covered in snow, and the worn in tire tracks of the previous vehicles had crossed over the lane markings. This would be the reason to pull me over for suspicion of DUI. In the police officer’s opinion, I would have failed the eye tests, and he would be very certain that I was intoxicated. However, I had not had any alcohol, I have had something wrong with my eyes my entire life. Proceeding from there, the police officer would say that my speech was slurred even if it wasn’t, that I could not count off correctly even if I did count off correctly, that I could not stand on one foot even if I could. If a Breathalyzer test would have shown 0.00, or 0.01, that couldn’t be right, I was either drunk or on drugs, because the police officer doesn’t want to not give someone a citation for DUI, especially me.

I think that I know who this police officer was, because he was driving a Chevy Tahoe instead of a Ford Explorer. In November of 2014 this police officer pulled over Damon Prescott Butterfield in Dickinson for suspicion of DUI. Damon Butterfield did agree to take several field sobriety tests like the ones that I described above. There was almost not enough evidence against him to be convicted of DUI after the field sobriety tests, however after being asked several times, he had admitted to having a few beers. He refused to take a Breathalyzer test, and was placed under arrest, and was informed of the North Dakota law about driver’s license suspension for refusal to submit to chemical tests.

Damon Butterfield was taken to jail in Dickinson where he continued to refuse to submit to any chemical test. At a court hearing, his driver’s license was suspended for 180 days for refusal to submit to chemical tests when requested, which is a North Dakota law that you can go look up. Damon Butterfield appealed his driver’s license suspension on several grounds, one of them being that the North Dakota law was unconstitutional, and that some of the processes of the traffic stop and sobriety tests were unconstitutional for various reasons. This case was heard on appeal, and it eventually was heard in the Supreme Court of North Dakota. It should not come as a surprise that the Supreme Court of North Dakota stood by the North Dakota law to suspend someone’s driver’s license if they refuse to submit to chemical tests.

However, what many people have discovered in North Dakota, especially truck drivers, is that it is better to have your driver’s license suspended for 180 days for refusal to submit to a chemical test, rather than submit to a chemical test and have the blood alcohol result used to convict you of DUI.

I had a long discussion about the Damon Prescott Butterfield VS Levi Supreme Court case two weeks ago, and I was on the side of law enforcement mostly. I did not like the tactic which can be used to get out of a DUI: do not admit to having had any alcohol, no matter what the police officer says; do not take any field sobriety tests, no matter what, perhaps say that you are sick; do not take any Breathalyzer or chemical tests; if you are placed under arrest, advise the police that you wish to speak to an attorney; at jail continue to refuse to take any chemical test on the grounds that you have the right to speak to an attorney. This is a delay tactic, which some attorneys may participate in, to have enough time pass that when you finally have spoken to your attorney hours after your arrest, if you took a Breathalyzer test at that time, the blood alcohol level would be much lower. Because all questions, field sobriety tests, and chemical tests were previously refused, and a chemical test taken a couple of hours after arrest was below the blood alcohol level limit, there exists no evidence to support a DUI conviction

I described the tactic to get out of a DUI, because I didn’t like being followed by the police, and likely being railroaded into a DUI, even though I had not had any alcohol. It is not illegal in North Dakota to drive to and from a bar. It is not illegal in North Dakota to have one or two alcohol drinks and drive home. The way the police act in Dickinson, they assume that everyone driving at night is guilty of DUI, and they need to be followed until there is a reason to pull them over, so that they can be questioned, given sobriety tests, and given a Breathalyzer test.

What Happened To Other People Who Moved To Dickinson, North Dakota

January 25, 2017Uncategorizededucated people in Dickinson North Dakota, how are people treated in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Living in Watford City North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what happens to people who move to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, working in Dickinson North Dakota, would you move to Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

Many people do not like my blog website because I write so many negative things about Dickinson, and they think that these things aren’t true. What I had wanted to do for a long time, was to show what other people write about Dickinson, and what happens to other people in Dickinson, North Dakota.

In this blog post, I want to point out someone else’s blog post about moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, and what happened to them. I found this other person’s blog post by typing into a Google search, “relocating to Dickinson, North Dakota”. I found an article titled “Reflections on Moving to North Dakota in the Winter”. The website address of this article was https://fhsarchives.wordpress.com/…/reflections-on-moving-to-north-dakota-in-the-winter.

The article was written in March of 2010, and was posted to the Forest Historical Society website, by an approximately 36 year old man named Joseph who had recently completed his Ph.D., and had been working as an assistant professor in Michigan. He had recently accepted a position as a research historian at Dickinson State University. In January of 2010 Joseph moved to Dickinson with his cat, his baby, his wife, and his mother-in-law.

When he first arrived in Dickinson, he and his family stayed in a rented town home. The second week he was in Dickinson, there was a blizzard with -30 degree Fahrenheit wind chill, and widespread power outages. This made Joseph see the benefit in owning a home with a fireplace. Joseph wrote that he found a home that had two fireplaces, and that he would be able to purchase this home in the Spring of 2010.

It was surprising to me that in 2010, in the middle of the Oil Boom, that a young man who just completed his Ph.D., would be able to purchase a home in Dickinson. The house Joseph was describing, sounded like it would have cost at least $250,000, because even small older houses cost that much in Dickinson at that time.

I wondered what happened to Joseph. So I looked him up on the internet using his full name, Ph.D., his research historian position, and I found on the internet his complete resume from year 2011. Joseph moved to Dickinson in January of 2010 to accept the position of research historian at Dickinson State University. However, before 2010 was over, he was in down in Houston, Texas as an adjunct humanities professor at Strayer University.

What would make a Ph.D. move his family to Dickinson in January to accept a position at Dickinson State University, find a house to buy, and leave Dickinson before the year was up?

In my opinion, these are the likely reasons: Dickinson State University being backwards and substandard; Dickinson State University cutting a position that someone just relocated here to fill; local people in Dickinson being unfriendly, not helpful, uncooperative, and hostile; being treated with disrespect in every way possible for having a great deal of education.

It was not that Dickinson was too cold, because Joseph had spent approximately the previous ten years in Michigan. It was not that Joseph was not good enough in his job, he had been successful in his previous academic positions, and he later went on to work as an adjunct professor at a university in Tennessee from 2012 to the present 2017.

I have written in many blog posts that the local people in Dickinson are unfriendly, not helpful, uncooperative, hostile, and that they deliberately disrespect educated people in every way possible. I believe that this is what happened to Joseph to quickly kill his enthusiasm about moving to Dickinson, and leave Dickinson in less than a year.

I will give some more accounts about what happened to other people in Dickinson in future blog posts.

A Type Of Greed That Hurt An Individual’s Own Family In Dickinson, North Dakota

January 20, 2017Uncategorizedexcessive land greed in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Living in Watford City North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, Oil Boom effects on families in North Dakota, Oil Boom greed in North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

A week ago I wrote two blog posts about “Causes And Effects Of Excessive Land Greed In Dickinson, North Dakota”. I wrote that during this most recent Oil Boom in Dickinson from 2007 through 2014, land owners were unwilling to sell vacant, unoccupied, barren grassland outside of Dickinson for less than $100,000 per acre. In addition to that, the land owners would not sell off just one, two, three, four, or five acres, the buyer had to purchase the entire 30 acre to 120 acre parcel.

One of the reasons why the land owners would not sell off just one to five acres, was because they feared that someone putting a house on one lot, would make a developer no longer want the remaining lots for industrial or commercial use. Or, an industrial building on one lot, would make a developer no longer want the remaining lots for residential use. An additional reason why the land owners would not sell off just one to five acres was, greed.

Outside of Dickinson, there is still a tremendous amount of vacant, unoccupied, barren grassland stretching for hundreds of miles in every direction. And, there are not very many single family homes on one to five acres outside of Dickinson, you can drive around outside of Dickinson and you will notice this immediately. The houses just stop, crowded small houses all together next to each other, and then they just stop. This is because the land owners would not sell off just one to five acres.

I met some of the land owners in Dickinson during the Oil Boom. Some of the land owners I knew very well. I will explain what happened to one of them, though what happened to the other land owners that I knew, is very similar.

This particular land owner was born in Dickinson on his parents’ farm. He inherited some land from his parents, but purchased an additional parcel of land in the 1990s for about $800 per acre. He was very poor throughout his life. He had two marriages that did not last very long. Most of his life he was single. What he described to me about both of his marriages, was two wives with young children that just could not stand the many periods of being broke, and having to go to charities for food and diapers. In Dickinson, when there was not an oil boom going on, employers paid very low wages and it was very difficult to get any job at all. His two wives left North Dakota, taking their young children with them.

His ex-wives and children did not want to have very much contact with him for twenty to thirty years because of the bad memories. He would have liked to have traveled out of state to visit them, but he never had the money. When the Oil Boom came back to Dickinson in 2007, within several years most of the people in the United States began to hear about it, including his ex-wives and children, who were now adults.

The land that he had purchased for about $800 per acre in the 1990s, he now wanted to sell for $100,000 per acre. He turned down many offers from people and businesses to purchase one to five acres at $100,000 per acre. He turned down offers to buy the whole parcel for $2.5 million, which was just over $80,000 per acre.

Meanwhile, from 2007 through 2014, he informed his family members that soon he would be very wealthy from the sale of his land. He wanted his adult children to talk to him, and have a better opinion of him, so he talked about what he planned to do with his millions, and what he could do for them. He informed his adult children, some of them who were now married with young children, that when his land sold he would be willing to buy each of them a home of up to $160,000, with some conditions.

His adult children had grown up poor without a father, and with bitter mothers who hated their father. They had all moved on with their life, had adjusted, and had an equilibrium in their life with their jobs, spouses, children, and households. The adult children had mixed feelings about their father in North Dakota now wanting to have involvement in their lives, now that he was expecting to be very wealthy, and trying to make up for the past. The adult children replied “No”, with his offer to buy them homes, probably seeing that this was an attempt by him to have the right to visit them and his grandchildren whenever he wanted, without them being able to refuse.

The Oil Boom came and went, with all offers from buyers being refused, because the land owner felt that his land was just too valuable to sell. Though the highest offer was $2.5 million, no one would buy this land now for even $400,000, because no one needs it now or wants it now.

The land owner’s adult children had not thought about their father very much once they had families of their own, until he began informing them weekly and monthly for seven years, that soon he would be very wealthy. Whatever their feelings for their father, at least they could expect to have a large inheritance one day. What is $3 million divided five ways, $600,000? I believe that each of the adult children had some hope of receiving something, because that is what they were led to believe.

I believe that many many North Dakota families went through this. Growing up poor with a lot of bad memories and disappointment, but finding an equilibrium and way to get by in life as an adult. When the Oil Boom came back, land owners believed that they had a chance to become very wealthy. Adult children and their spouses waited to see how much money their parents would receive from oil leases, oil revenue, and the sale of land. How much money would this be, and how would they share it?

Because of the Oil Boom, many North Dakotans that were getting by in life, began to wonder how their life would change. Would they be able to move from an apartment into a house? Would they be able to buy a new reliable vehicle? Would they be able to go to college? Would they be able to get their teeth fixed? Would they be able to have a different kind of life? If often depended on what amount of money a family member would receive, and if they would be willing to share this money. The Oil Boom caused a lot of disagreement, animosity, and hard feelings in families that otherwise would not have happened.

How Excessive Land Greed Has Hurt Dickinson For Ever

January 18, 2017Uncategorizedaffordable housing in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Living in Watford City North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, oil boom in Dickinson North Dakota, property development in Dickinson North Dakota, real estate in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, working the Oil Boom in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I wrote about “Causes And Effects Of Excessive Land Greed In Dickinson, North Dakota” in my previous two blog posts. In many other blog posts, I have described and explained the extremely high cost of housing in western North Dakota and Dickinson that occurred during the Oil Boom from 2007 through 2014.

Both in their behavior and in their actual statements, many business owners, merchants, land owners, home owners, real estate agents, and property developers indicated that they believed the Oil Boom would continue for much longer than it did. This belief seemed to inspire high pricing: If you want some place to live, you better take this, the prices are only going up; If you want some place to live, you better take this, soon there won’t be any place left; If you want to make this money here, you better take this, it will be worth it in the long run.

The out of state workers paid very high prices for housing because they had no choice, they believed they had to take what they could get before prices went up more or somebody else took it, and they believed with a high amount of pay it would be worth it in the long run. The out of state workers and the out of state companies hated the extremely high housing prices. They became aware that prior to the Oil Boom, the one bedroom apartment they were now renting for $1,800 per month, had been $400 per month. The old three bedroom house that they were now renting for $3,000 per month, had been $600 per month.

The out of state workers and out of state companies felt like they were being gouged and taken advantage of. They felt like if they were willing to leave their homes, families, and friends and travel all this way to work in a cold and barren environment, that that overtime pay should go in their pocket, pay off all of their debts, or build their savings, not go to their local landlord, who was not making any kind of sacrifice or facing any hardship. This bad feeling about being gouged made both the out of state workers and out of state companies have bad feelings about working in Dickinson.

But forget about bad feelings about working in Dickinson, the reality was that workers were paying $1,800 per month for a one bedroom apartment, or $3,000 per month for an old three bedroom house. The out of state workers and out of state companies knew all along that they could never afford to stay in Dickinson if the high paying work went away.

But it did not have to be this way. There are hundreds of miles of barren, desolate, vacant, unoccupied grass lands stretching in every direction outside of Dickinson. More vacant unoccupied land than almost any other place in the United States. In other states, I have seen 1\4 acre lots in completed developments for $25,000. To put a new manufactured home on one of these lots would have cost an additional $80,000 to $100,000. To put a conventional home on one of these lots would have cost an additional $125,000 to $150,000. These types of new homes would have had mortgages of less than $1,500 per month.

Everything could have turned out differently for Dickinson, North Dakota. If Dickinson would have had new manufactured homes or new conventional homes with mortgages of $2,000 per month, thousands of skilled workers and trades people would have made Dickinson their permanent home, and out of state companies would have relocated operations here.

The truck drivers, welders, pipe fitters, heavy equipment operators, plumbers, and electricians, they are always having to travel out of state to work on big projects, no matter where they live. If they would have come to Dickinson, expecting that they were going to be here for at least several years, they would have happily and gladly bought a home for $2,000 per month. They had the income and job security to do it, and they would be owning something. They wouldn’t have had any hesitation, if the oil field work went away, they could work other big projects in other states, they always had.

If Dickinson had had these new affordable homes, many trades people would have been able to pay them off in ten years if they had a wife who also worked, or room mates. There could have been vast neighborhoods of new homes with so much equity in them, that the owners were not about to walk away from them or fail to pay their property taxes. The workers would have had more disposable income and a place to park boats, motorcycles, ATVs, snow mobiles, and campers. Once workers get equity in a home, all the toys they want, their wife and kids, they are stuck, that is their home. If money problems come up, then the worker has to travel out of state and send money back home.

I don’t know if any one in Dickinson ever realized, that the excessive land greed in Dickinson, where land owners would not sell vacant grass land for less than $100,000 per acre, resulted in and will result in Dickinson losing most of its workers, and causing land to be worth about $1,000 per acre because no one wants to live here. You’ll see.

Answering A Reader’s Questions About Lot Sizes In Dickinson, North Dakota

January 16, 2017Uncategorizedland owners in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Living in Watford City North Dakota, lot sizes in Dickinson North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, residential development in Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

A reader left a comment in response to my previous blog post titled “Causes And Effects Of Excessive Land Greed In Dickinson, North Dakota”, asking if this has anything to do with the shortage of neighborhoods in Dickinson with acre sized lots. Yes, excessive land greed is one of the main reasons, but not the only reason, that there is a shortage of houses on one to five acre lots.

The reader who posted the comment has been looking for a home on one to forty acres for some time, but can’t find one, because there are not that many to choose from. One of my main goals in making money, was to never have to live right next to someone else, ever again. I didn’t want to have to listen to anyone else’s arguments, problems, stupidity, bad behavior, television, stereo, or children. I didn’t want to have to care about what their house looked like, what their yard looked like, what they had in their yard, what they did in their yard, how many cars, trucks, trailers, boats, or motorcycles they had. And I didn’t want anyone to be able to complain about what I did on my property.

In my opinion, you don’t start to get away from hearing your neighbors until the lot sizes get to be at least one acre. Once the lot sizes get to be over two acres, people seem to observe each other’s right to park boats, motor homes, RVs, and contractor trailers on their own property. Most red-necks, blue collar workers, and trades people would like to own a home on two or more acres, for privacy, peace and quiet, and to park all of their belongings.

With at least five thousand well paid blue collar workers and trades people moving to Dickinson from out of state during the Oil Boom from 2007 to 2014, there was a desire for manufactured homes or conventional homes on one acre lots, but there were very few of these homes, and their purchase price was probably double what people expected. Most of the out of state workers and companies would have liked to have made payments on a home that they would own, rather than pay $2,000 to $3,000 per month for rent on an apartment that they would never own.

As I wrote in my previous blog post titled “Causes And Effects Of Excessive Land Greed In Dickinson, North Dakota”, during the Oil Boom land owners in and around Dickinson became so greedy that they believed their land was too valuable to sell at all, or they were unwilling to sell their land for less than $100,000 per acre. What I did not write in my previous blog post, and what I need to emphasize now, is that during the Oil Boom the land owners were not willing to sell off just a few acres at $100,000 per acre, you had to buy the whole 30 acre to 120 acre parcel!

I met land owners in Dickinson that absolutely would not sell off an acre, or two, or three, or five, because they were suspicious that the buyer would put some “Thing” on their lots, that would adversely affect the remainder of the property. One of the worst “Things” would be a home, because they thought that then a developer would not want the remainder of the land for commercial or industrial use. Or, that an industrial building on five acres would make the remaining lots unsuitable for residential. This what they told me. They required any buyer to purchase the entire 30 acre to 120 acre parcel.

This is why developers, builders, and individuals did not create neighborhoods with homes on one to five acre lots during the Oil Boom in Dickinson. Developers could not see spending $8 million just to get the land, their development costs, and then having to wait until just about every one acre lot sold for $150,000 to $175,000 over three to four years to get their money back. It would have been easier for builders or individuals to buy one acre of land and build a home or install a manufactured home, but the land owners would not sell off one acre of land at a time, only the entire 30 acre to 120 acre parcel.

I also need to answer the question, why weren’t there more neighborhoods with homes on one to five acres already existing in Dickinson prior to the Oil Boom? The answer is, if you were an individual in Dickinson with enough money to buy a home on five acres back in the 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, you ended up buying a home with 20, 30, 40, 80 acres because that is what was available. There used to be not that many people in and around Dickinson, and land was very cheap, there was so much of it.

If you wanted to live in town, you lived in town. If you didn’t want to live in town, then you lived outside of town on a farm. And if you didn’t want to live in town, and you wanted to live on five acres, they didn’t have that, you lived outside of town on 40 acres.

Land was so inexpensive and plentiful in North Dakota, it was like buying grapes or peanuts, it didn’t come in ones or fives, it came in a bunch or a whole bag.

I Probably Shouldn’t Tell You Ordinary People In Dickinson This

January 3, 2017UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Living in Watford City North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

Below are the Ten Commandments from the Old Testament of the Bible. The Books of the Old Testament of the Bible, were recorded by the Jews, and are accepted and incorporated by the Jews, Christians, Muslims, and Mormons.

Thou shalt have no other gods before me.
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image. (In this commandment, the Lord condemns the worship of idols. Idolatry may take many forms. Some people replace the living God with other idols, such as money, material possessions, ideas, or prestige.)
Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain.
Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
Honor thy father and thy mother.
Thou shalt not kill.
Thou shalt not commit adultery. (Fornication, homosexuality, and other sexual sins are violations of the seventh commandment.)
Thou shalt not steal.
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.
Thou shalt not covet. (Coveting, or envying something that belongs to another.)

You may have first been introduced to the Ten Commandments in Church. You may have later seen the Ten Commandments displayed in school classrooms. You may have seen the Ten Commandments displayed in County Courthouses and State Capitols. The Ten Commandments are taught and displayed because this is what we are supposed to believe and follow.

In court, witnesses are sworn to tell the truth by placing their hand on the Bible. Elected officials are sworn to uphold the Constitution by placing their hand on the Bible. We are supposed to believe in the Bible. The ethics, morals, conduct, and justice contained in the Ten Commandments and the Bible are an important basis for our government, the Constitution, our laws, our court system, our law enforcement, and our military.

We are supposed to conduct ourselves in a Christian manner, according to the Ten Commandments, and according to the Bible. Everyone is educated in school and taught in Church what to think and what to believe. We are taught right and wrong, good and bad, what is moral and immoral, what is acceptable and unacceptable, what is appropriate and inappropriate. We are taught how to act, how to behave, and how to conduct ourselves.

Most of the adults living here in Dickinson, who aren’t in jail, live each day trying more or less to abide by what we were taught in school and Church about how to behave, what is right and wrong, what is moral and immoral. Most of us do.

However, there are people living in Dickinson who wanted to get ahead, and either little by little, or all at once, they got rid of their belief in God, the Bible, and the Ten Commandments. When they quit believing in God, the Bible, the Ten Commandments, and everything that they were taught about right and wrong, tremendous opportunities and possibilities opened up. Especially the opportunity to take advantage of everyone else.

These Elite People, they have figured out that there are so many more possibilities in life once you are no longer held back by fear of retribution from God. Once you realize that there is no God, the Bible, the Ten Commandments, right and wrong, moral and immoral, are ridiculous fictional concepts that needlessly limited what they could do.

I am telling you Ordinary People in Dickinson this, because at the higher levels of the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church, other Churches, Masonry, Government, and Business, the people no longer believe in God. They don’t have to abide by the same rules as you Ordinary People, because there aren’t any rules. However, it is better if all you Ordinary People continue to believe in God and the Bible, because it makes all you Ordinary People much easier to control, manage, and take advantage of.

Women, Women In Dickinson, And My Website

November 6, 2016UncategorizedDUI in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Living in Watford City North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, rights of women in North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, women in Dickinson North Dakota, women in Watford City North Dakotaname withheld

I have written in several recent blog posts that my biggest motivation in creating this website was anger. However it is the fact that there is very little to do in Dickinson that causes me to write so much, and keeps me angry.

I can not go out to bars at night and socialize in Dickinson because the police are so aggressive in stopping everyone to give them a DUI. It is not really worth it going out to bars and restaurants at night in Dickinson anyway because most of the bartenders and servers are angry, mentally ill women who came to North Dakota because they could not obtain and keep employment where they came from.

Because of not being able to go out at night to bars and socialize, because most of the bartenders and servers are angry, mentally ill women, and because there is a shortage of women in Dickinson, I thought that it would be a good idea to hire a prostitute. However, you can’t do this either because the police in Dickinson and Bismarck place fake advertisements for escorts on the internet so that they can arrest men when they show up for their appointment.

All I have to do with my time is read, write, work on cars and equipment, and watch television. While reading recently, I saw a job advertisement that indicated foreign refugees were going to be relocated to Watford City, North Dakota. More reading verified my suspicion that it would probably be Syrian refugees. Lutheran Social Services in Minnesota and North Dakota is currently working on this.

I wrote a blog post about Muslim refugees from the Middle East being relocated to western North Dakota on my website. I thought that it was interesting and funny. Western North Dakota sucks so bad already for me, the other out of state workers, the red-necks, and the white trash, everybody is already angry. I can’t wait to see this anger explode when Lutheran Social Services starts bringing the Muslim Syrian refugees to live next to and work next to, the mean North Dakotans, and the angry red-necks and white trash.

I looked on the internet for an appropriate image to include with my blog post about the Syrian refugees relocating to western North Dakota. (I just got done telling you, no, I don’t have anything better to do.) In general, paintings are no longer protected by copyright law once the artist has been dead for seventy years. What I look through, are paintings from the 1400s through the early 1900s because I can use these paintings as illustrations without having to pay for their use, they are no longer copyright protected. I like these paintings anyway for a number of different reasons. I want to explain several things about the Muslim and Arab paintings of harem women and slave women.

In the 1600s through the early 1900s, many excellent European painters traveled to the Middle East to observe, study, and paint harem women and slave women. The wealthy Arabs, Muslims, Berbers, and Turks very often kept harems and slave women, many of them were white women. I believe that many of these white women ended up as captives because “they were at the wrong place, at the wrong time.”

I believe that what I am writing about these harems and women slaves, is not registering with some of the women that are reading this. They may think of this with notions of romance and adventure. I am not using the term “slave” in a figurative way, I do literally mean “slave”, as in not being able to leave and being held against their will. After looking at many different harem women and slave women paintings, it is clear to me that these women were treated the same as animal property, the same as horses.

One of my favorite painters is John William Waterhouse, an English painter who lived from 1849 to 1917. Most of the paintings on my website are by John W. Waterhouse. To me, his paintings are clearer than photographs. Though he may have created one hundred famous paintings, you can see that he chose to use the same five women models. Many of John W. Waterhouse’s paintings show women that are partially or completely nude. I am sure that his five favorite women models had no objection to modelling nude for him. All of the women in his paintings have dignity and free-will, whether they are a young water nymph, a courtesan, a priestess, or a goddess.

The European painters that traveled to the Middle East to paint the harem women and slave women, their paintings show women that are not voluntarily modelling nude, they show women that are accustomed to remaining unclothed for long periods of time, because they are required to do so. These paintings do not show women with dignity or free-will, they show women that are captives, though they often seem or appear accustomed to their situation. Often times, these harem women are shown with exotic pets that are normally wild animals, such as lions, cheetahs, and parrots. Though the wealthy Arabs and Turks did have exotic pets like lions and cheetahs, these animals that are normally free, are required to lounge around in captivity, just like the captive women. The harem women and the slave women shown in the paintings, are not much different than the exotic pets lounging with them, they are all captives, and animal property.

Many of the women in Dickinson act shitty and hostile toward white men. I want to point out that if it weren’t for the white men, women would most likely end up being treated as slaves and kept as animal property. Everything that is being done to undermine white Christian men, will probably result in all women everywhere losing all of their rights within the next fifty years. Look at how women are treated in the Middle East, the Far East, and Latin America. The more that white Christian men become a minority, the more that women undermine white Christian men, the sooner the culture and values of the Middle East, the Far East, and Latin America will inevitably take away all the freedom and equality that women have.

Refugees Coming To Western North Dakota Whether You Wanted Them Or Not

November 4, 2016UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Living in Watford City North Dakota, living in Williston North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, moving to Watford City North Dakota, moving to Williston North Dakota, refugees coming to western North Dakota, refugees moving to Dickinson North Dakota, refugees moving to Watford City North Dakota, refugees moving to Williston North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Watford City North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, what is Watford City North Dakotaname withheld

Sometimes, because of my anger about how I and other out of state workers were treated in western North Dakota, I have thought about schemes to get even with North Dakotans. All I had to do was point out to Democrats and Liberals in Minneapolis, New York City, and Washington D.C., that a tremendous amount of new housing just got completed in Williston, Watford City, and Dickinson, and that 60% of this new housing was sitting vacant. What a good place to bring thousands of Syrian refugees, don’t you think? There are thousands of job openings in western North Dakota, right? That’s what the Chambers of Commerce and North Dakota Job Services keep saying all the time.

I know how loving, kind, and welcoming the North Dakotans were to me and the other out of state workers, so I know that they would love to have thousands of Muslims from the Middle East moving in. Thousands of hard core militant Muslim refugees straight from the Middle East brought to your neighborhoods and the companies where you work.

I didn’t contact anyone about Syrian refugees and the tremendous amount of new unoccupied housing in Williston, Watford City, and Dickinson, because I knew that some Liberal organization probably would think that it was a good place to send Syrian refugees. Can you imagine what a disaster it would be? The hostile, hateful, mean, scowling Catholics having to cohabitate with thousands of hostile, hateful, stubborn, militant Muslims that have no intention of assimilating?

Too late! Somebody else thought of it! It is going to happen! A few weeks ago when I was half-way paying attention, I heard that Lutheran Social Services in Minnesota was trying to bring in thousands of Syrian refugees. Tonight, I was looking at the internet website Indeed.com, and I saw a job advertisement for “Relocation Consultant” in Watford City. At first, the job advertisement tries to say that the “Relocation Consultant” will be helping corporate employees relocate to Watford City. But when the job advertisement started talking about having to drive the “corporate employee” around in your car and help them get an apartment, open a bank account, and get a social security card, I knew that they are talking about refugees. Any non-developmentally disabled working adult in the United States can obtain an apartment, open a bank account, and they sure as hell already have a social security card.

People Living In Their Cars In Dickinson, North Dakota

October 25, 2016Uncategorizedhomeless in Dickinson North Dakota, how much money do people make in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, people living in their cars in Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

In 2011 when I first came to Dickinson, North Dakota to work, I stayed in my camper on the company property where I worked. Because of the housing shortage, every kind of housing and lodging was very expensive. If you could find a one bedroom apartment that was available, it cost about $1,500 per month. The cheapest and most run down motel in Dickinson would also cost about $1,500 per month. At that time, about 1 out of 10 oil field workers in Dickinson stayed on the company property in a camper, trailer, or motor home.

After work, I would take my laptop computer to the Tiger Truck Stop in Dickinson to use the internet. The Tiger Truck Stop was a very busy place in 2011, especially in the mornings beginning at about 5:00 a.m. But in the evening through later at night, the truck drivers would socialize, especially the drivers that were sleeping in their trucks over night at the truck stop. There were about two hundred tractor trucks parked at the truck stop at night. But there were also about thirty cars parked in different locations on the property at night.

People would arrive in Dickinson from out of state looking for work, and find that they could not afford even the least expensive motel in town. They also found out that the privately owned RV parks in Dickinson would not allow campers in vans, cars, old buses, old motor homes, or old trailers. These people with very little money would wind up at the Tiger Truck Stop parking lot or the Wal-Mart parking lot at the end of the day.

Though the Tiger Truck Stop parking lot was very full and crowded, the truck drivers did not complain too much about the people in cars, vans, buses, and motor homes taking up spaces at night. The Tiger Truck Stop owner tried to not notice, because these people obviously had no place else to go. There was no homeless shelter in Dickinson. The Tiger Truck Stop owner in Dickinson allowing people with no where else to go to remain on the property at night, was the most charitable thing that I have yet seen in North Dakota.

The people sleeping in their cars at night in the parking lot, would come inside the truck stop to use the bathroom, buy something to eat, or use the internet. I got to know many of these people, some of them were even life long residents of Dickinson.

I could probably write a book about the people that I met living in their cars in Dickinson, but this is just a blog post, so I will keep it brief. Most of the people that I met living in their cars in Dickinson would go to the temporary labor company in Dickinson in the morning, the Command Center. They would get what they could get. Usually they would get some work each day that would allow them to buy some food and gas for their car. On any given day, many of these people living in their car would have $5 to $100 in their wallet, and that was all the money they had in the world. Everybody who came to work in North Dakota was not making $100,000 per year like you read about in the newspaper or heard about on television.

Some of these workers that I met who were living in their cars in Dickinson had valid current commercial drivers licenses. They would go to trucking companies to apply for jobs, but the office ladies didn’t like the looks of them or their beat up vehicles that they were living in. Some of the older men living in their cars had had wives and children that they supported for years by working in a trade, but bit by bit they earned less and less as the economy got worse, and cheap labor from Mexico lowered the wages of trades people everywhere.

At night at the Tiger Truck stop, I talked to many of the older men who were living in their cars in the parking lot, who had gotten work that day at the Command Center, moving furniture, cleaning up a construction site, flagging traffic, and were now “home”. They had provided a home for their wife and children for twenty years. Had made sure their wife and children had food and clothing. Saw their kids off to school every morning. Bought everybody birthday presents, Christmas presents. Paid for everyone’s doctor visits, dentist visits, eye glasses. Their kids were out on their own now. Wife wanted to be on her own too. It was incredible to me, that these men had provided a home and everything for others for many years, and now their fate was to live in their vehicle and be broke.

The Truth About Truck Driving In Western North Dakota

October 25, 2016UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, truck driving in Dickinson North Dakota, trucking in Dickinson North Dakota, what are people paid in the oil field, what did truck drivers earn in the oil field, what is Dickinson North Dakota Likename withheld

In 2011 when I came to work in Dickinson, North Dakota, I stayed in my camper on the company property where I worked. After work, I would take my laptop computer to the Tiger Truck Stop to use the internet. I came to know some of the truck drivers, and some of the workers who slept in their vehicles in the truck stop parking lot.

There were two truck drivers that I became friends with who were in their fifties, Kyle and Ryan. Both of them had been in the army. Both of them were from Montana. I saw Kyle every evening that I went to the Tiger Truck Stop. As I talked to other people late into the night on a Friday or Saturday, I saw Kyle coming in and going out throughout the night.

I didn’t know it for a couple of weeks, that Kyle was homeless, and broke. He had been driving truck for a company that did not pay him. Every few days he would go talk to the trucking company, and they would tell Kyle that they should be able to pay him in a few days. He was just trying to get his two weeks pay that he was owed, so that he could leave Dickinson. I found this out when I asked Ryan where Kyle was. Ryan told me that he gave Kyle a ride back to Montana, and that Kyle was so bitter about everything, that Ryan had to threaten to drop him off half way there. Ryan did not want to hear the complaining, Ryan was in the same situation.

Another one of the truck drivers that I was friends with at the Tiger Truck Stop, S.A., he had been given a two week pay check from a trucking company for $1,400. He deposited this check into his account at Wells Fargo bank in Dickinson, and got $200 cash back. The pay check from the trucking company later bounced due to insufficient funds, and Wells Fargo wanted the $200 back from S.A., which he did not have. He was another broke truck driver.

About a month after the non-payment of truck drivers that I described above, I met a tractor truck owner that just arrived in Dickinson and was staying on the property next to the company that I worked for. He was from California. I was talking to him in a bar on a Friday night about two weeks after he arrived in Dickinson. He said that at about noon, he had delivered a load of pump rod to an oil well site, but the oil company man would not let the work crew unload the pump rod with the crane, because the wind was over 30 mph, company policy. He said that because they would not unload his trailer, he told the crew at the site and the oil company that he would have to charge them $250 per day for tying up his trailer, that he couldn’t run his truck without having his trailer. He was satisfied that he was going to make $125 Friday, $250 Saturday, and $250 Sunday for doing nothing.

His trailer got unloaded on Monday. He spent most of that week trying to get the oil company man to sign his invoice, to accept the charges for tying up his trailer. But he could not get the oil company to agree to pay these charges. He took his truck and trailer back to California the following week.

When I drove back to Idaho after being in North Dakota for three months, my neighbor Craig who is a truck driver asked me about what North Dakota was like. I told Craig. Craig said, “You see that house right over there? That man is a truck driver. He went to North Dakota to drive truck last year. He was owed three weeks pay. He never could get the trucking company to pay him, so he came back home.”

I could go on and on with these stories about truck drivers not being paid in North Dakota and not making any money. The other types of stories are ones where many truck drivers said to me, yes, they made a lot of money hauling water for fracking, but then they would have to wait three or four days to start hauling again. When they calculated out how much it cost to sleep in their truck at night and run the engine, how much they spent on food, it turned out that they made just as much money doing long haul, and they got to spend more time at home with their families.

Let me know if you want to hear about the broke truck drivers that I met in Dickinson in 2013.

Is This Confusing To You?

October 18, 2016UncategorizedLiving in Dickinson, North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, working in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I was in western North Dakota this week, but not in Dickinson. I had some of my tools with me, but the battery in my saw was not very good, the most it would cut was a 2″x4″. I was making a 2′ wide by 2′ tall floor cabinet for the inside of my utility trailer. I went to a lumber store and asked if I bought a 4’x8′ sheet of plywood, would they cut it in half for me?

I said let me draw you a sketch so that you can see how I want it cut. The young lady was very attractive and nice, I had noticed her when I was looking for the hardware that I needed. She looked at the sketch and said, “O.K., you want it cut in half, and then two inches taken off each side.” I said no. She said, “Well, that is what this says.”

She handed the sketch to a male co-worker, who looked at it and said, “O.K., you want it ripped down the middle, …and then you want it cut up into two foot pieces.”. I said no, just ripped down the middle, leaving me two pieces that are 2’x8′.

Both of them were pissed off at me. Then a third guy who cut the plywood was pissed off at me. They had never seen such a thing, and they didn’t like it at all. It was confusing to them.

I designed and drew bridges for a 1-1/2 years, did the structural detail drawings too. Got the plans permitted in different jurisdictions. I did the structural drawings and detail drawings for ships. I did the loading calculations and structural drawings for houses. I can’t believe North Dakota. I didn’t want to hurt these people’s feelings, so I didn’t say anything, but them not being able to understand that sketch caused me great concern and tremendous doubt about people in North Dakota.

Summary Of Wickedness And Perversion In Dickinson, North Dakota

I have lived in Dickinson, North Dakota for a little over four years now. I have been writing blog posts on this website for two years.

I wrote about bits and pieces of things that I saw that I thought I understood. Some things that were culturally different, some problems, and things that were wrong. Each of these things that I thought that I saw and understood, and wrote about, as time has passed, I can say that I was not incorrect in my assessment and explanation.

The people here in Dickinson took advantage of the out of state workers tremendously during this past oil boom. The people in Dickinson have a hatred and hostility for people who are from out of state, and an even stronger hatred for people with an education. The people in Dickinson also have hatred and hostility for each other.

Psychologists, counselors, and ordinary people have seen that when people are abused, they in turn abuse others. This happens in families with domestic violence and abuse, this happens in organizations like fraternities that haze inductees, this happens in the military, this happens in company culture. People repeat what has been done to them.

People in Dickinson were mistreated, taken advantage of, and abused way before this most recent oil boom in 2007. I am angry at the Catholic Church in Dickinson for not making Christian values, ethics, and morals wide spread and dominant in Dickinson. I have gone so far as to say that I think that the Catholic Church in Dickinson must be teaching hostility and hatred in Dickinson because it is so prevalent.

I wrote in a recent blog post that Dickinson treats educated people very badly, that the manufacturing companies in Dickinson treat engineers with disrespect in every way, and that this is what the local people want. I had written in a previous blog post, that the large manufacturing companies in Dickinson have had a practice of paying employees as little as possible in order to keep them from ever getting ahead, ever furthering themselves, ever advancing, or ever being able to leave their job or leave Dickinson. The regular employees were treated very badly.

So as I started out saying in this blog post, when people are abused and treated badly, they in turn treat others badly. Should it be any wonder that out of state workers were treated with hatred and hostility? Should it be any wonder that educated people and engineers are treated with hatred and hostility? The people here are only repeating what has been done to them.

I want to finish this blog post by citing a very disturbing newspaper article by the Bismarck Tribune from 2005, that illustrates perfectly several of the things that I have been writing about. This article is about what one of the wealthiest individuals from the wealthiest manufacturing company in Dickinson did. I want to use this example to show that people at the top in Dickinson abuse and take advantage of people. I want to use this as an example of lack of Christian morals and ethics. The people in Dickinson act in accordance with how they have been treated, when they have been treated with a lack of Christian morals and ethics, they do so to others. Lastly, this hatred of educated people and engineers in Dickinson, which comes from the top, is probably due to the fact that the people at the top don’t want anyone around to know what they are doing.

From the September 2, 2005 Bismarck Tribune article by Blake Nicholson:

“A former Dickinson businessman has been sentenced to five years in prison for possessing child pornography, and ordered to pay restitution to the one known victim and to a hospital children’s center here…

David Fisher, 44, the former head of Fisher Industries and Fisher Martin Inc., admitted in April to possessing two video clips and about two dozen computer files of child pornography in March 2003. In return for his guilty plea, prosecutors dropped charges of sexual exploitation of minors and receipt of material involving the sexual exploitation of minors…

U.S. District Court Chief Judge Dan Hovland also ordered Fisher to pay restitution of $4,860 to the one known victim, a 10-year-old girl whom Fisher had hired to help with office chores. Authorities said six of the child porn images in Fisher’s possession were of the girl. Hochhalter said Fisher also will be responsible for paying future costs of counseling for the victim…”

David Fisher was sentenced to five years in prison. Note that in exchange for his guilty plea, the charges of sexual exploitation of minors was dropped. If an out of state worker would have taken six pornographic images of a ten year old girl, he probably would have been sentenced to twenty years in prison.

People Resorting To Sex With Animals In Dickinson, North Dakota

In my previous four blog posts I wrote that the Catholics, Senator Heidi Heitkamp, law enforcement, and the judicial system in western North Dakota have all decided that there is not going to be any prostitution allowed whatsoever, even though there are way more men than women, and prostitution is necessary. Rather than achieving a glorious state of morality and purity in western North Dakota, it has resulted in adultery, and sexual abuse of animals.

Right now, everybody needs to go read the Jamestown Sun newspaper article dated January 28, 2013 “Horse becomes victim of sexual assault in west North Dakota.” Go read the article, not only was a horse sexually assaulted, this was not the first time that this happened to a horse in this area, and, it has happened to cattle in this area too.

A quote from this newspaper article reads, “…an illegal act ranchers suggest happens all too often in this area, but rarely gets reported.”

Another quote from this newspaper article reads, “This is not the first time an attack like this has happened. Horse farrier Lee Hecker found his daughter’s older mare on the ground with grease on its “rear-end” this fall.”

Another quote from this newspaper article reads, “Hecker has over the years found evidence of assault on his horses and cows.”

I am so sick of the Catholics in Dickinson. The Catholics here in Dickinson, instead of having kindness and charity towards others, have hatred and hostility towards others. Instead of helping the people who arrived here in Dickinson, they took advantage of them in historic proportion. Just like the Catholics here have got a complete misunderstanding of the teachings of Christianity, which has them believing that they should treat others with hostility, hatred, and abuse, their determined efforts to not allow men the opportunity to have sex with women, has forced the men here to turn to horses and cows for sex.

Are We Supposed To Seduce The Married Women In Dickinson And Watford City, North Dakota?

Are we, the out of state workers, supposed to seduce the married women in Dickinson and Watford City, North Dakota? The Catholics, Senator Heidi Heitkamp, law enforcement, and the judicial system don’t want there to be any prostitution of any kind whatsoever, so I guess we must be supposed to seduce the married women.

The ratio of men to women in Dickinson is about 3:1, and the ratio of men to women in Watford City is about 10:1. There are not enough women for everybody to have one, therefore, we must borrow someone else’s, because prostitution is not allowed.

Most of the time, very attractive young ladies with good dispositions already have a boyfriend or husband. They are so sought after because of their beauty and good personality, that they always either have a boyfriend or are married. Fortunately, married women are easier to seduce than single women, as I will explain.

Married women, by the fact that they are married, have demonstrated that they like men enough to marry one of them. If they have been married for at least a few years, they are used to men. They are used to a man touching them, grabbing them, handling them, having sex with them, sleeping next to them, snoring, being sick around them, being dirty, sweaty, and smelly. So they are not uncomfortable with men, or the things that men do.

I have written in previous blog posts that all of the housewives, waitresses, and store clerks were tired of being propositioned ten times every day by the truck drivers, construction workers, and oil field workers. I have written that all of the housewives in Dickinson, Dunn County, and Watford City, hide, they hide, and they try to only go out to do errands and shopping between the hours of 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. in order to avoid all of the male workers who are currently still at work during those hours. But the housewives try to avoid the male workers, because they actually like some of them, they find some of them to be cute or handsome.

When a married woman sees a strong dirty sweaty construction worker that she thinks is cute or handsome, she starts fantasizing about all the work that she could have him do back at her house. She starts fantasizing about the strong dirty sweaty construction worker taking her, without asking, (so it’s not her fault), in an animalistic primitive wild lust that she can’t stop, (so it’s not her fault).

The housewives, they have already noticed that some of the out of state workers are cute or handsome, and they have already thought about it. The housewives that are sometimes the most vulnerable to seduction, according to scientific research, are the ones with a couple of children under the age of eight. This is because of both a high hormone level at this time, and the fact that they are looking for relief and escape from their squabbling squealing children.

When you combine the fact that housewives are used to men, are used to having sex, are not scared of sex, are not scared of getting pregnant, find strong sweaty construction workers attractive, have high hormone levels, want an escape from their squealing kids, and, and are probably mad at their husband for something and want to get back at him, you see that housewives are very ready to be borrowed temporarily by out of state workers.

The Catholics could not have set things up any better for the greatest amount of adultery in Dickinson and Watford City, with there being so many men, so few women, and absolutely no prostitutes allowed for the out of state workers.

In my next blog post, I will write about how people in Dickinson and Watford City can tell if their child was fathered by an out of state worker.

Maggie McNeil, The Honest Courtesan, Part I

October 12, 2016UncategorizedHeidi Heitkamp, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Living in Watford City North Dakota, living in Williston North Dakota, Maggie McNeil The Honest Courtesan, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, moving to Watford City North Dakota, prostitution in Dickinson North Dakota, prostitution in Watford City North Dakota, prostitution in Williston North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, what is Watford City North Dakota like, women in Dickinson North Dakota, women in Watford City North Dakota, women in Williston North Dakotaname withheld

“Maggie McNeil, The Honest Courtesan, frank commentary from an unretired call girl”.

Maggie McNeil is probably the best writer that I have ever read. Maggie McNeil is not her real name. She grew up in New Orleans, and went to Catholic school. In 1987 she graduated from the University of New Orleans with a Bachelor of Arts in English. In 1993 she graduated from Louisiana State University with a Masters in Library Science.

After graduating, she got married to her boyfriend that she met in college, and began working as a librarian. After about four years of marriage, her marriage did not work out, she got a divorce, and her husband left her with a large amount of debt. In 1997 she began working as a stripper in New Orleans in order to be able to pay down her debt. She found out that she could make even more money as a prostitute, so that is what she did.

In about 2006, she married her favorite client, and retired from being a stripper and a prostitute. She began writing about her life and about prostitution on her website “Maggie McNeil, The Honest Courtesan”.

In 2011 when I first came to Dickinson, North Dakota to work, there was a shortage of women, and lack of attractive women. For the first time in my life, in my early 40s, I began looking at internet dating sites. Though I began looking at five different internet dating sites each day, there were still very few attractive women in Dickinson. Older workers told me to go to the website “Backpage”, and look under “Escorts”. There were some attractive women advertising in the “Escort” section of “Backpage”, and at $250 per hour, that is way less money, less time, and less effort than trying to have a girlfriend.

However, the police in Dickinson, Williston, and Bismarck were creating fake “Escort” profiles on “Backpage”, and they were arresting the men when they went to their appointment with the “Escort” they contacted. I was angry, and I still am angry, that everyone in Dickinson and Williston knew that there were way more men than women, the ratio was probably 3:1 in Dickinson and 10:1 in Williston. Everyone knew that all of the housewives, waitresses, and store clerks were tired of being propositioned ten times a day by truck drivers, construction workers, and oil field workers. I blame those God damn ignorant scheming Catholics in western North Dakota for not allowing and interfering with men trying to have relations with women in a way that did not harass the housewives, waitresses, and store clerks.

In trying to look for women on the internet, and reading about prostitution on the internet, I found the website “Maggie McNeil, The Honest Courtesan”. I was impressed with Maggie McNeil’s writing. She was very logical, organized, and coherent in her writing, it was very professional. Actually, it was beyond professional, she was a very good and talented writer.

I wrote Maggie McNeil a fairly long e-mail complimenting her writing, explaining my thoughts, and asking her some questions. She e-mailed me back saying that I should read Ayn Rand if I didn’t think women could be logical.

I have read about one hundred of Maggie McNeil’s blog posts, though she has written more than a thousand. Some posts tell about her childhood, some are about her education, some about her marriage, being a librarian, a stripper, a prostitute, a writer, and about legalizing prostitution. Most of her writing is about legalizing prostitution and decriminalizing prostitution.

The reason that I am writing about Maggie McNeil, is that I want other people to read her blog posts, especially women, especially women in North Dakota. Sometimes she explains very thoroughly that she likes having sex, she always has, even from when she was a teenager, that she sees nothing wrong with it, and is unashamed about it. I hope that her writing and explaining will help many readers in North Dakota realize that sex is completely normal, it’s not like some terrifying animal escaping from the zoo, which is how North Dakotans look at sex and nudity.

Also, I would like for women, community leaders, elected representatives, Senator Heidi Heitkamp, judicial officers, and law enforcement to read Maggie McNeil’s blog website in order to understand more than they do now about why some women want to get paid to have sex. Maggie McNeil is very intelligent and well educated. She realized when she was in financial debt, that she could make more money as a stripper, than at her job as a librarian. Then, she realized that she could make more money as a prostitute, and that she liked being a prostitute. This is what she wanted to do as a profession. She is not a drug addict or a criminal. There are many other women like her, that want to be paid to have sex, because they can make more money this way, and like it better than other employment options.

I will write more about this in my next blog post Maggie McNeil, The Honest Courtesan, Part II.

How Dickinson Treats Educated People

September 27, 2016UncategorizedDickinson, North Dakota, economy in Dickinson North Dakota, engineers in Dickinson North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Living in Watford City North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, out of state worker in Dickinson North Dakota, out of state worker in Watford City North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, working in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

I have lived in Dickinson, North Dakota for four years now. In the past two years, I have written approximately two hundred blog posts. I have stated that the purpose of this blog is to write the truth about Dickinson, so that people from out of state who are considering moving here will have correct information, so that the people who recently arrived here can understand what is going on, and so that the long time residents can see what other people experience in Dickinson.

My primary motivation in creating this blog website was probably anger. I was angry about the way people from out of state were mistreated in Dickinson. I was angry about how I was mistreated. I was angry about it, I didn’t like it, and I wanted to do something about it.

For at least the past year, anyone, anywhere in the world who wants to know anything about Dickinson, North Dakota, gets their information from me. Anyone who looks up “living in Dickinson”, “moving to Dickinson”, “relocating to Dickinson”, “what is Dickinson North Dakota like”, “people in Dickinson”, “economy in Dickinson”, “women in Dickinson”, “Catholics in Dickinson”, “corruption in Dickinson”, my website comes up at the top or near the top of the search results.

I am happy that my blog website about Dickinson, North Dakota comes up at the top or near the top of the first page of search results so that everyone in the world can know how badly out of state workers were mistreated and taken advantage of in Dickinson. Below I will give one example.

In 2014 there was a well known manufacturing company in Dickinson that had a job advertisement for an estimator, designer, and drafter. I applied for this job. I had a bachelor of science in engineering, had worked for several years and several companies as an estimator, and had worked for several years and several companies as a designer and drafter. This manufacturing company offered to pay me $18 per hour, forty hours per week, which equals $720 per week.

In 2014 in Dickinson, a concrete laborer was paid about $18 per hour, worked sixty hours per week, and made about $1,260 per week. A road construction flagger was paid about $20 per hour, worked sixty hours per week, and made about $1,400 per week.

The difference between a concrete laborer, a road construction flagger, and an engineer is this: an engineer most likely graduated from high school at the top of his class or he would not have been admitted to an engineering college, he had a very difficult five to six years of college which cost anywhere from $40,000 to $100,000, and, a concrete laborer or flagged didn’t graduate from high school.

The majority of people in Dickinson so hate people with an education, that they offer engineers 1/2 the weekly pay of laborers who didn’t even graduate from high school.

Most of the manufacturing companies and other companies in Dickinson disrespect and mistreat degreed engineers in every way possible, because they hate educated people. The people in Dickinson like this, that is why they do it.

Now that the Oil Boom has gone away, Dickinson is going to have economic difficulty because it has very few industries that are not oil field related or oil field dependent. If you disrespect and mistreat engineers, and have done so for years, yes, you will have a lack of manufacturing and industry in your area.

I know how poor Dickinson was prior to the first Oil Boom in the 1950s, and in between the Oil Boom of the late 1970s and the Oil Boom of 2007. You all can go back to growing corn and sunflowers now to earn your living. I want to stick around so that I can see each and every one of you, get what is coming to you, after you mistreated and took advantage of all the out of state workers for the past eight years.

Recommendations For People In Dickinson And Watford City Regarding The Recession

September 21, 2016UncategorizedDickinson, North Dakota, economy in Dickinson North Dakota, economy in Watford City North Dakota, Living in Dickinson, North Dakota, Living in Watford City North Dakota, Moving to Dickinson, North Dakota, moving to Watford City North Dakota, recession in Dickinson North Dakota, recession in Watford City North Dakota, relocating to Dickinson North Dakota, relocating to Watford City North Dakota, what is Dickinson North Dakota Like, working in Dickinson North Dakotaname withheld

It is clear now that drilling operations in western North Dakota will not increase in the next six months, possibly not in twelve months, possibly not in twenty-four months. Western North Dakota is entering into a Recession at this time.

More people will continue to lose their jobs, even some city government, state government, and federal government jobs. Wage rates will go down. Very few people will work overtime hours. The longer that oil drilling operations do not increase, the worse the Recession will get. If the Recession continues for a year, there will not be enough jobs for everyone. There will be fierce competition for even low wage jobs.

It will become necessary for skilled trades people from western North Dakota to travel to other states that may have building projects. These skilled trades people sending money back to their families that stay behind in western North Dakota, this money coming into town to pay for rent, mortgages, car payments, and consumer items will help the local economy. The fact that some workers will go away, leave town, and find work out of state, will allow there not to be 100 people applying for and fighting over every single local job.

Now in western North Dakota, the heads of households, moms and dads, need to have a serious family meeting like they may have never had before, with the TV off, phones put away, and everybody being quiet and paying attention. I don’t believe in scaring kids or sharing financial information with kids, but this Recession is going to be so bad, that you are going to need to make your family members understand now. You are going to have to explain to your kids that either mom or dad, or both, may lose their job, have reduced hours, or reduced wages. The family is going to have to do things differently.

The family can no longer waste money on stupid shit. In order to pay for necessities like rent, utilities, and food, the family can not waste money on stupid shit. You have got to let the kids know that they can’t be whining about expensive toys, clothes, trips, because there is not going to be money for that. Not to waste food and utilities. Mom or dad may have to go work out of state. Mom or dad may have to get a second job. Teenage sons or daughters may have to get a job after school and use that money to pay for their own clothes and other things. Mom and dad need to explain the necessity of doing these things, and explain what everyone else in Dickinson and Watford City will go through. Some of their friends will lose their homes or be evicted from their apartments, or have to move away.

You the reader may be thinking that this is drastic. Yes, it is drastic. If this were Idaho, where people have not been making much money, for ever, I would have had little talks with my family all along about not spending money, not one Big talk scaring everybody. But that is what is required now, to scare your family.

Even though ordinary workers in Dickinson and Watford City did not save a lot of money because rents were so high, many workers made a high enough hourly wage to make consumer items like clothes, cell phone, groceries, and gas easily affordable and not significant. Individuals and families in Dickinson and Watford City have gotten used to spending a lot of money every day, because they had a lot of money coming in. If it has not already happened to them, it very likely will happen soon that they will not have so much money coming in. They will have to change their spending habits, drastically.

I would be explaining to my family that his whole thing was crazy anyway.

Looking back on this, people from all over the United States that were having financial difficulties and not making much money where they were, came to North Dakota in hope of getting a good job and getting ahead. It was because of this hope, that they went and paid $1,500 to $2,500 per month for a place to live, thinking that they would still clear enough money to come out ahead. I have lived here in North Dakota now for four years, and I have only ever met people who came here who at best just got by. I have only ever met people who came here who just paid for themselves and their families and just got by. The cold, the unfriendliness, nothing to do, no where to go, no women, and no one got ahead, they just paid for their existence, and now its over.

To make it all worth while, I expect some North Dakotan to offer up, “Nobody asked you to come here.”