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Originally Posted by JFK
this is what most of the posters in here failed to see, "Most of your pay will be eaten by simply affording to live there "  |
Fort Mac, last I heard a little two bedroom apartment was upwards of $1500/month. Never mind what you'll pay to buy a home there. This isn't applicable to the entire oilfield though. There is a huge portion of the patch which is basically nomadic living in the camps for winter drilling rush. These guys get paid well. The part you're missing here is the daily living allowance. Your LOA can be as much as $150/day out on the road when you're drilling. The government can't legally tax LOA either. This is one of the big bonuses of the job. Smart people pocket tons of cash off Living Allowance when they're on the road or shipped out to the bush. When you live in camp, you are fed like a fucking king. All your needs are cared for. It's just some cabin fever inducing "barracks" type environments as someone else mentioned. It's like a little isolated prison in the boondocks.
I always joked that the government should whore out prisoners to the rigs in the Hellman fields to help lower our taxes. What are they going to do? Run away? Good luck! You'll freeze and die in the middle of nowhere before you ever escape camp.
