Overall, more people are getting rich than falling behind.

Webmidland's booming oil and energy sector has brought thousands of millennials to the west texas city.

Webin the past, such soaring crude prices turned midland into a temporary boomtown:

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Courtesy of jacobe kendrick.

It knew oil booms and oil.

Insider spoke with five residents to understand how.

Weba visit to midlandโ€™s โ€œwoodstock for frackersโ€ makes clear why west texas is home to the hottest oil play in the world.

Webfor years, midland, texas, was a quiet corner of the oil patch, in the middle of the desert, hours away from the stateโ€™s population centers.

Wildcatters move in to search for oil, snapping up houses and apartments,.

In a sense, it was a railroad stop, jim collett, president of the midland historical.

Webthe middle class has shrunk faster in midland, texas, than nearly anywhere else in the u. s.

Webmidland, texas โ€” for a town known for pumping oil, it didn't start out that way.

The city experienced a major oil boom and.

Webso why is midland booming at a time of layoffs in its biggest industry?

Around the time i came back to midland in 2012, it began changing.

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The answer lies in a statistical quirk.