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This happened to me when I was about 10. My parents were getting the house renovated and I kept telling them about this noise in ny bedroom. They got one of the contractors to open a little hole and suddenly bees everywhere. That did not help with my fear of bees.
Why does everything cost 20k in the US Do most people make a million per year lol
Salaries in the USA are traditionally much higher than in other countries.
We also tend to pay less taxes.
Then we pay a fuck ton for everything else AND we’re like the cutting room floor for shitty capitalist policies that will be shipped over to yall in a decade or so.
That said a nearly 200k/yr salary on the coasts can leave you still struggling to make ends meet whereas 50k in the flyovers can have you sitting happy.
The USA is made up of so many little economies that show up to be one one big economy.
You’re thinking of mean average salaries. A greater percentage of Americans make minimum wage (or less) than Canadians, and Canadian minimum wage is higher.
There are a small group of rich people offsetting this notion of “Americans get less public services because they make sooo much more money”
1% of Americans make min wage compared to 9% of Canadians.
No, I’m thinking of salaries for comparable roles.
I’m not really making any statement about the vast wealth inequality in the USA, beyond pointing out that 200k on the coasts can be scraping by while a quarter of that in the “heartland” can be comfortable.
I didnt push the notion that we get less because we make more, we get less … we also make more … they are not related excepting to pull down what “we make more” means.
Well, building materials are expensive for one. Like, I had to have my roof replaced in the last year or two, and it was $6k, and they only ripped and replaced the plywood, barrier and shingles. They didn’t have to worry about cleaning out organic matter, structural issues involved with opening up a wall and removing shit, or the complications of dealing with utilities in wall.
When you factor all the potential issues in, especially if it was a large infestation, costs can add up quickly.
Kiddo, this is good news! We can finally be bees!
Was this an experiment in remote parenting or how did they not notice the bees for months?
They are actually relatively quiet once inside their nest.
I don’t know about bees, but last year I noticed wasps crawling in and out a hole on my balcony. I did not think much of it, but noticed the home owner, just to be safe.
Well they send a beekeeper, and that guy explained to me that now it is quiet, but within 4 weeks he expect there to be about 20000 wasps in there, it would be getting really loud and they would have started to find an exit into my apartment. Apparently they multiply really fast.
The other option was a data centre next door.
When I was a kid I told my mom about something scary out the window. The didn’t believe me either. Turned out someone was on the side of the house stealing parts off some kind of electrical box.
I don’t remember this. I was told about it later.
I DO remember being afraid of windows until I was an adult.
Based child Linux user /s lol
Luckily Linux works so well nowadays, huh?
I can tell this wasn’t written by bees.
Why would you need to pay for bee removal? Local beekeepers will do it for free in my neighborhood.
Got to open up the walls, clean the honey residue, removing the hive, and rebuild the walls. Getting rid of the bees is the easiest part.
Yeah but that’s $20k? I guess 60k bees is a lot
Walls and shit are expensive, yeah.
$20K to open up a single wall and put it back up is not reasonable, even in a high COL area
BBC would suggest UK, so £20k. But also our walls are often solid rather than wood and plasterboard.
Still sounds a lot unless they were taking over like half the house.
£20,000 is more than $20,000, I’m quite surprised it cost that much though, I had my entire roof ripped off, in a storm and the cost came in at £7,000 to fix and that cost included electrical work since I wanted the attic wired for lighting again.
I just used an online conversion calculator and $7000 gbp is Iess than $9500 USD. $9500 USD seems low for an entire roof replacement plus electrical work for my little corner of the States, (unless I hire Bob’s Roof Repair as his first client and get 5% off for leaving a 5-star review on Google before the work is completed).
£20,000 is more than $20,000
Tell that to most online shops…
suckers living in the city.
It’s crazy that insurance didn’t pay for it because they deemed it “preventable”.
That’s why every day I just go and give the tree leaning over my deck a good shove.
The HoA says it’s fine, so I have a document proving this tree that isn’t mine is “ok” and someone else is gonna pay when it falls.
Meanwhile … every day just a little shove to help it along.
I just had wasps burrow their way into the side of my house and chew down through the ceiling of my first floor bathroom. That very particular and unnerving scratching noise is fucking burned into my brain.
The monsters are real, and they are
us60 kilobees33¢ per bee is crazy.
Who’s their bee guy, amirite?
Back in the day it used to only be 5¢ per bee
AND they let you keep the honey.
I used to hear scratching in my bedroom walls at night when I was a kid.
My dad said it was probably red squirrels but to me, it was demons trying to claw their way through a portal.
Rip and tear little one
Well? Which was it??
$3 per bee
$3 per bee
More like $1 per 3 bees.
yeah
Still quite expensive.
yeah inflation is rough man. I remember when you could get 8 or 9 bees per dollar
Back then, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. “Gimme five bees for a quarter”, you’d say.
