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chelsea_9 · 05-10-2006, 03:13 PM

i was born and raised in fort mcmurray, just like 99.9% of the people who've been here as long as i, i can not wait to leave.
it is just too easy to get caught up in the fast money here, and most people spend their entire lives out at site [the oil sands plants] making ridiculous amounts of money they really don't know what to do with. this is especially true for all the kids just out of highschool, and 20-somethings who come here looking to make alot of money really fast. most of them are here with no family, and once they make all of this money... they have nothing to do with it!
i doubt many will be surprised to know that cocaine is so common up here that alot of highschool kids [in grade 9 and 10 even] are using.
living and growing here, i've seen how negatively all of this money we have effects people. it's so sad to see the buses coming in from site, so the workers [who are god knows how far away from their family] can buy a few odds and ends. the cost to live here is phenomenaly ridiculous; a duplex across the street from where i live sold for $300,000. families whose incomes would give them a happy, healthy life elsewhere only gives them the bare minimum here.
it's like we're in our own little world up here in nothern alberta, and it is so easy to get trapped for life.

i can't say for sure which would be better, to switch from the oilsands to nuclear power. it would be a bittersweet ending for the people here, but i'm sure this would happen [again] to another city with a surplus of uranium [Uranium City was a huge, booming city... and is now deserted from such an ordeal]. then again, the oil will run out here soon enough especially if fort mcmurray becomes an even more important source for the world entire.
it's a tough call...

05-10-2006, 03:13 PM	#21 (permalink)
chelsea_9 Crazy Location: somewhere i intend to leave	i was born and raised in fort mcmurray, just like 99.9% of the people who've been here as long as i, i can not wait to leave. it is just too easy to get caught up in the fast money here, and most people spend their entire lives out at site [the oil sands plants] making ridiculous amounts of money they really don't know what to do with. this is especially true for all the kids just out of highschool, and 20-somethings who come here looking to make alot of money really fast. most of them are here with no family, and once they make all of this money... they have nothing to do with it! i doubt many will be surprised to know that cocaine is so common up here that alot of highschool kids [in grade 9 and 10 even] are using. living and growing here, i've seen how negatively all of this money we have effects people. it's so sad to see the buses coming in from site, so the workers [who are god knows how far away from their family] can buy a few odds and ends. the cost to live here is phenomenaly ridiculous; a duplex across the street from where i live sold for $300,000. families whose incomes would give them a happy, healthy life elsewhere only gives them the bare minimum here. it's like we're in our own little world up here in nothern alberta, and it is so easy to get trapped for life. i can't say for sure which would be better, to switch from the oilsands to nuclear power. it would be a bittersweet ending for the people here, but i'm sure this would happen [again] to another city with a surplus of uranium [Uranium City was a huge, booming city... and is now deserted from such an ordeal]. then again, the oil will run out here soon enough especially if fort mcmurray becomes an even more important source for the world entire. it's a tough call... __________________ all good dreamers pass this way some day hiding behind bottles in dark cafes Last edited by chelsea_9; 05-10-2006 at 03:18 PM..