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Originally Posted by Matty81
Production won't slow, but construction relative to the size of the town will. Even if as you say they keep developing it like idiots and building plant after plant without upgrading our infrastructure (which I don't agree will happen anyway) the city's population will eventually grow to a point where there is enough of a critical mass of actual residents that constructing two or three new plants doesn't swamp the town with transients trashing the place.
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If oil prices keeps going up, there will be more expansions. The oil companies have built camps up there to house a small city (probably that is where the 70,000 pop of Ft Mac totals by adding the stabilized town and camp popn). The housing prices is astronomical, a single family (1400 sq ft) home can sell for over 650-850k. Rents for 2 bedroom apt can be as high as 2000-2500/mo. The government is slow to act (as you have stated) to open up land for sale to private builders. They need more housing. The twinning or widening of hwy 63 is slow (at a snail's pace)and beyond ridiculous, and meanwhile, the death tolls keep adding up each year. There are alot of transients living in camps. Oil companies make it mandatory for workers to undergo drug testing, and as well, they do hire securities with drug sniffing dogs to check all camps. If a family lives in the city itself, the lifestyle is like any other small city. There are fine high schools and college with excellent trade programs. Lots of money to be made. The median family income can easily be over 150k-200k-of course it has to be given the high cost of living there.