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Then there is Alberta Canada I think Edmonton where fast food workers get paid $20/hour due to the oil boom in the area. But a small apartment rents for close to $2,000/month if you can find one.
I think you are thinking of Fort McMurray. There is such a labour shortage in the oilsands (and correspondingly high pay), that there is no one available to work fast food, build houses, or anything else really. Of course, I have also seen very similar results in resort towns for slightly different reasons: only the rich can afford to live there, so there is no poor to work the low paid jobs.
You're right I have no idea why I wrote Edmonton.
I know enough people that went there recently and in the early 1980s too during phase one of the oil boom.