Living in a boomtown

According to Harvey Brock at the Dickinson Press, you might live in a boomtown if:

• Your neighbor's house guest hasn't moved his RV for three years, and your other neighbor has nine pickups parked in front of his two bedroom house.
• Subdivisions spring up overnight and folks are still living in their cars.
• You can't find a dry cleaner but coin-operated laundry mats stay busy 24/7.
• Guns, bottled water and energy drinks don't fly off the shelves because they don't hang around long enough to make it to the shelves.
• You get a U.S. geography lesson counting license plates while driving through the Walmart parking lot.
• There is no such thing as fast food and ordering a cheeseburger would be easier with a translator.
• New fine dining features award-winning BBQ and moves around on four wheels.
• Three out of four vehicles on the road are white pickup trucks.
• Scoria is a color as much as a road building material.
• Star gazing has been replaced by counting gas flares more numerous than lakes in Minnesota.