Talk politics.

Some of our mining towns have rent of $1000 a week for a room and the local burger joint is still paying $14 an hour. If you don't have family there who owned a house before the boom you'll never afford to live there. It's gotten to the point that people are living in tents on peoples' lawns. There are no real moves to force the mining companies to do any community development and create infrastructure that would support more housing; things like roads, schools, power lines and the like are still expected to be coming out of the government budget.