Which Area of ND Has The Jobs? (Fargo, Bismarck: insurance, home)

[janani10]

Hello All:

I hope this finds you well. Where in ND has the jobs? I keep seeing articles saying ND is the place for jobs due to the big oil find, but it never mentions where is the best areas to move?

janani10

[Corbay]

West = Crazy living, high wages, high rents, crowded, and hectic. (Minot, Williston, Dickinson, Bismarck)

East = Normal living, mid wages, mid rents, not crowded, and not hectic. (Jamestown, Devils Lake, Grand Forks Fargo)

There are jobs everywhere in North Dakota. Above explains things in general.

[janani10]

Thank you Corbay. I totally appreciate it. Currently my husband and I live in TN. I was born and raised here, and I am ready to move. We have spoke about going to South Dakota, and he was even accepted to at a school there, but for some odd reason he thought Tennessee would be better for us. Don't know why. Cause it hasn't been that great to us.

Currently, the unemployment rate is high in TN (7.9%), and unfortunately, where I am at in TN, is one of the highest behind Memphis I guess. At the moment he lives in a place, due to school. And this small town literally has NOTHING. I don't think it has a mall. And Wal-Mart is not even super. (ie: NO JOBS, only the university). So moving together isn't an option. At this time I am working, but it's for insurance, and it seems like every person has insurance.(ie: No sales).

I would like to relocate somewhere that our family is under one roof. And could survive on a 2 party income.

I have an impressive resume, but due to the good ol' buddy boy system, jobs are few and far between. I am really pushing for up North with morals and values. While I love the big city life, I do not know if it will do for our son who is 09 years old. Mid-Big is okay. Nothing more than 150,000 population type of area.

Also, how do they feel about interracial marriages? I have never been there before. I guess we should visit before deciding. I'm AA & Cherokee and he's Arab from middle east. So I am concern about racism, but not too much. I am from the south.

Sorry for babbling.

[Corbay]

Couple of notes:
Probably no more racism here than any other state. Most North Dakotans (native North Dakotans at least), are kind of shy and keep to them selves.

The ENTIRE population of N.D. is just under 700,000. So most cities are 15,000 - 50,000.

If you want decent jobs, and not the chaos of the oil patch look at:
Bismarck (around 50,000) growing rapidly but not nearly as bad as the oil patch.
Jamestown (15,000) growing, still a good small town life.
Fargo (biggest city 120,000 in the metro).

Rents in the oil patch are crazy high.

[lisan23]

I agree with Corbay, base on what you've said I would avoid the west part of the state. Unless you guys specifically want oil work there isn't much of a reason to come this way. There are still jobs throughout the rest of the state, the pay won't be as high but the cost of living is lower.

[Serious Conversation]

I'm a native Tennessean but lived in Iowa for the last year. I've done some traveling through SD but never went to ND. Your odds of getting a job doing anything are MUCH higher in the upper Midwest/high Plains than in any part of TN. There were frequent ads on the radio in Iowa and SD for businesses that were hiring - that simply doesn't happen here in TN as jobs are much harder to come by. Your cost of living in the upper Midwest/Plains will be about the same to TN to slightly higher - taxes will be higher, food cheaper, home prices/rents maybe slightly higher.

I would do much more research, but I doubt you'd end up worse off than now.

[janani10]

Emigrations:
Are you from Kingsport, TN? If you are, this is a crazy small world. I am from Kingsport. Born in Knoxville, but raised in Kingsport. If you are from here, then you know first hand how difficult it is here. Thank you again for the information. I totally appreciate it.