Strippers Flock to Oil Boom Town

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Oil and gas exploration has increased dramatically in the wind-swept ranching town of Williston, bringing with it thousands of young and mostly male workers.

By KTVA CBS 11

Story Created: Oct 27, 2011 AKDT

Story Updated: Oct 28, 2011 at 9:50 AM AKDT

An oil boom in North Dakota has created an exotic dancer bust in other towns.

Oil and gas exploration has increased dramatically in the wind-swept ranching town of Williston, bringing with it thousands of young and mostly male workers.

It's also brings in exotic dancers in droves.

Dancers from well-heeled places like Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and even Germany are clamoring to get a job at one of the town’s two strip clubs.

It is just one of the interesting side effects of the new oil boom and something not unknown to longtime Alaskans.

"It does sound very, very familiar,” said Neal Fried economist, Alaska Department of Labor. “I mean, it is something that this state did experience one time, probably more than once. We had the gold rushes and other things before that.”

One dancer claims that after moving to Williston she now makes between $2,000 and $3,000 per night.

[peejay 327]

I work in the oil and gas services industry and we had dozens of our people working in North Dakota. They were contract employees that lived in housing provided by the customer. The customer decided to hire them on direct at considerably more money, but the housing and per diem would go away. None wanted to go to work for them. They came back down south to work in the Gulf of Mexico. Right now there is a big shortage of housing in these oil boom towns and it is outrageous in price if you can find it. Hence the reason the customer wanted to be shed of that huge expense. Guys told me people are showing up in North Dakota in droves looking for work and are sleeping in their cars in parking lots. Not too groovy when winter finally sets in up there.

I'm sure a cute little stripper can always find a warm bed to sleep in in a town full of hard legs. Everybody else is S.O.L.

[Gary and Alla 3,694]

Somehow I do not think her tax return is going to reflect making $2000 per night.

Another reason for 9-9-9 or the FAIR TAX!

[luckytxn 2,264]

Imagine that.

They need people so bad they are trying to hire me and I haven't even applied for a job in years. I drove the area a few weeks ago (Southwest Texas) and was stunned at the activity. This area was among the most desolate areas in the country. Now it is teeming with activity. About anyone that wants to work can but it is true that housing is non existent.