“Michelle Maguire is paying $950 a month to park her RV in a farmers’ field two miles out of town – and that’s considered reasonable. Camper parking spots, with no utilities, rent for up to $1,400. Still it’s painful when she considers the farmer is making about $100,000 a year renting out parking spaces, and that she is paying as much to keep her family of four in a 44-ft trailer as she is to hang on to the family home in Montana. Milk is $6 a gallon, a shower at the local truck stop costs $10.”

– There’s an oil boom in North Dakota right now equivalent to the California Gold Rush of 1849. (via nedhepburn)