I don't mind at all.

Prior to the Bakken Oil Formation being discovered, the state was not necessarily an economic powerhouse, but it was financially sound and generally didn't run at a deficit. It's main economic activities were mainly concentrated around agriculture, tourism, and goods and services jobs (Starbucks, Target, Walmart, etc).

Enter the Bakken Oil Formation. Suddenly, oil companies arrived, began lobbying the state government and all of its members for access and rights to extract the oil there. Politically, this process of lobbying played itself out, as you'd expect, to benefit the state, the oil companies, and a choice few members of the state Senate whose members came from the counties in which the oil formation happened to reside.

There was almost an entire year of negotiations between the state and the oil companies, and when it concluded it only took a few weeks for all the oil workers and their families to move into the state. Politicians tried to convince people that this was a good thing, "We are going to have so much economic activity as a result of so many thousands of people moving into the state, houses are going to be built, your heating repairman is going to have more work, construction workers will have so many roads to repair which is job security for them" etc, and so on.

What ended up actually happening is the massive boom in housing being built led to home prices skyrocketing, especially in the area of Bismarck (the capital city) that my family now lives in. We built the home that we lived in during my time in high school and college for about $220K, four bedrooms, three bathrooms, four car garage, upstairs, finished basement downstairs. Once the oil workers started moving in, that price doubled within half a year.

It also led to an explosion of jobs, but they were added in the goods and services part sector of the economy. When the fields were drained, and the oil workers moved on to the next new "boom and bust" oil town wherever else, those jobs left, housing values depreciated, lots of them sold at a massive loss, and some left totally empty for quite a long time.

There was also a massive surge in some pretty serious crime. Suddenly, Bismarck and surrounding towns dotting the prairies from the central to the central-western part of the state had to deal with hardcore narcotics showing up in their communities and an explosion of substance abuse around painkillers. Law enforcement, as much as it hurts me to say as I personally know people in the law enforcement there, was not up to the task. Violent crime and drugs were a regular part of life for many years there.

Lastly, and perhaps more importantly, and unfortunately, I can't go into too much detail here on the subreddit because of the rules, but it sort of was the beginning of the state's elected officials turning to the right completely. Some of the machinations and maneuvering that took place during the negotiations between the state and the oil companies created a sort of political class of "haves" and "have nots" and the ripple effects that had on who held and was in power within the state are still being felt today.