Lack of Housing, 13 Days Straight, Missing Your Family, is all the Money Worth It?

Workers following the dollars to oil-rich northern Alberta
By Doug Struck, Washington Post January 21, 2007

"FORT McMURRAY, Alberta -- The plane from Calgary touched down as a cold dawn cracked the sky, and Rob Smaldon, a compact man wearing a baseball cap, sighed, "Ah, back in paradise." He was joking." Full Article.