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My gut feeling is that there will be no shortage of unintelligent workers up here buying places like yours and others who will move for 50 cents on the dollar. Don't mention boom or bust regarding the mining industry unless you include the boom and bust of the tourism business that happens every summer to winter. Why does our local Dairy Queen close for a couple of months every winter? Because their cash register is too full maybe?
Sure there will be slow times in the mines. But those slow times are often (like currently) surrounded by many very prosperous years. I, myself am a business owner and a miner here. I have not been layed off in the fifteen years I have worked here. All the mines up here a currently doing very well with no work stopages seen in the near future. Most had a year slowdown around 2008 but before that there was at least six years of prosperity and there has been eight since. This is a risk that myself and many others want to take regarding employment knowing that we will make a good income (average of 68K vs 19K in the tourism business). In fact, most miners make more in unemployment insurance than the tourism employees make year round. These are reasons that we want mining up here.
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