North Dakota

Also do some checking into that shop. I've known a few guys that have gone to NoDak in the last few years, and all of them have returned home after several months of not getting paid. Money is flowing over there, and so is fraud. There's a lot of, "we're short this week, we'll pay you next week" going on. People are flocking there in droves, so the employers have no problem filling the shoes of someone that leaves.

It is like any of the gold rushes in the past. The only people that got rich were the business owners. Actual miners and employees usually ended up penniless, and far from home.