'The whole thing is screwed up': Farmers in deep-red Pennsylvania struggle to find workers

[Attilatheblond]

58. Not to mention very limited housing.

During the big oil/fracking boom in far northeast Montana and North Dakota, there were jobs that paid, and workers came. But housing? People were paying over $400 per month to live UNDER other people's single wide mobile home, in winter!

Grocery stores, limited as they are there, started raising prices to ridiculous levels. EVERYONE wanted in on the boom. A bottle of 24 aspirin suddenly cost $16 or more. Food went up about the same %. Local schools had huge influx of students as whole families moved up north from areas in the South that were not doing well economically. Schools did not have enough buildings, teachers, chairs. Some local teachers who were there already had to quit and work in the oilfields just to keep paying their rising rent and food costs. It was horrible.

These dim witted policy makers and fakers just never think the whole work force equation thru. They seem to think workers are just like equipment that can simply be moved to where they are needed, plugged in, and switched on.