The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

[oldberkeley]

The local economic impact is like something out of the Gold Rush.

My oldest friend—a Minot native now living in western Mass.—is keeping close tabs on the housing situation. He says that in the surrounding small towns and the few sizable cities some oil field workers have gone from mere double-bunking—two people sharing a living space meant for one—to outright hot-bunking: two workers on different shifts using the same bed!