It's a huge oil town. A fair number of the large oil companies do their drilling in the area. If I'm not mistaken the male population out numbers the female by quite a bit. As everyone has said it COLD in the winter! Bumbleberry is right, it's a glorified work camp, passing it's self off as a small city.
Chickiegirl, it wasn't just Fort Mac that was offering that kind of wage for coffee shops. As little as 2 years ago burger king here in Calgary was offering $16/hr plus full benefits! Cashiers at safeway were making $15-$17/hr. Even then, things were so understaffed here, because of the money to be made in the oil sands that the local tim horton's only opened their drive through, because they couldn't find enough people to man both the drive through and the interior restaurant!
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