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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"
Edit: my mistake, I was thinking of how many Americans make less than the Canadian minimum wage, because the American minimum wage is so laughably low
1% of Americans make min wage compared to 9% of Canadians.
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.
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.
Luckily Linux works so well nowadays, huh?
Based child Linux user /s lol
That is a very young age to experience not being believed by parents. The poor kid, I hope she's not traumatised. It's surprising the things that can mark us.
I'm one of those kids. Either we're over explaining people pleasers or the trauma turned us into monsters.
Well, children aren't very good at telling the difference between real and fantasy. At least I'm fairly sure my nephew isn't actually Iron Man. Believing everything they say would be gullible at best, stupid at worst. And seriously, this won't be traumatizing because adults didn't believe the kid.
Neither of us can say that for sure because we don't have the necessary details. Internalisation is no myth, and it's very hard to work with when kids are pre-verbal or have low vocabulary. There are some good books on child (and adult) psychology that explain it better than I will here.
Was this an experiment in remote parenting or how did they not notice the bees for months?
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.
They are actually relatively quiet once inside their nest.
33¢ per bee is crazy.
Back in the day it used to only be 5¢ per bee
AND they let you keep the honey.
Who's their bee guy, amirite?
I once bought a mousetrap with my pocket money and caught the mouse, my parents didn't believe was in my bedroom.
maybe she should have said it was 60000 bees then?
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.
They’re in the walls… oh god… they’re in the walls!
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.
$20K to open up a single wall and put it back up is not reasonable, even in a high COL area
until it is a load bearing wall and you need specialists to make sure your house doesn't collapse when replacing it. Also depends on where the house is - if the area is hard to get to with heavy machinery, costs can explode easily.
Edit: Just read the article. The bees started in the attic and went deep into the walls - they had to remove 45kg (100 pounds) of honeycomb out of the walls and had to do three extractions to remove the bees. They fucked up the electrical wiring too (which was probably not limited to the wall with the nest). It also was 20000$ // 16000£.
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.
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.
Well? Which was it??
The monsters are real, and they are ~~us~~ 60 kilobees
I can tell this wasn't written by bees.
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.