Great, now let's talk about reducing the insane liquor tax

As alluded to, it's more important to use US conventions for how you represent your experience than any footnote about your education. I don't know how an "Associate's degree" and "post-Bachelor" translate to equivalents in the US, but I would list that mapping like "(equivalent to 4-year B.S)" on the resume itself.

Some industries expect an exhaustive CV while others want just a synopsis resume as well. Recognize that a resume is not a CV.

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Yeah, I think I'm going to just get a tree crew for chipping and hauling, but do the bulk of the clearing myself. One of those 50 cu yd dumpsters is $1k to have dropped off and picked up! I filled 3 of them last year... not cheap at all.

What kind of contractor did the work? That sounds much more aligned to what I would expect this to cost.

That's great but nature is wiping them out all on its own. Have had 20+ fall from wind or snow and a cotton just snapped 1/3 up its trunk and wiped out 7 other trees on the way down. The alders are choked out by blackberries.

The road is just a dead end to a neighbor. There's no pollution or noise where we live - this isn't a city. Houses are 1/2 mile apart at least.

The strip was left in as a privacy barrier but now it's a safety risk and impossible to maintain. I'm all for preserving nature, but this ain't one of those ecologically necessary things. I've got 1000s of other really old cedars and hemlock otherwise surrounding me.

Well, it's 1/2 acre on already-developed land that is just a 30ft wide strip along the road.

Main issue with doing myself is accidentally toppling a 40ft+ tree with a shallow root ball trying to rip the brush out of the way. Also just cutting down a few 60ft+ cottons is beyond my skill.

If it was truly clearing 5 acres at $120k I think that's a steal. $50k for 1/2 acre of shallow trees on flat land along a road seems a rip-off. The other $70k is for grading and planting a hedge row - which seems even worse. I was expecting bids to come in around $40k total for the entire job + cost of the hedges.

Nah we have 5 acres that is mostly developed already. This is just one strip along the road that is unsightly that wasn't part of the original clearing and development. It's actually about 1/2 acre total (long and narrow).

We're western - rural SnoCo. Lot is very accessible, as the area to clear is the property edge right along a road. It's all flat terrain.

Got it. No wonder why my tractor won't start.

Oh, they don't?

This is all garbage trees with shallow roots - alder and cotton. No market value, unfortunately.

You're describing a lot of WA state. Lots of <400k homes outside the major metros that are close to outdoor stuff. Can have a dog in any of them - it's your house. Just open realtor.com and start searching.

Wherever you go, just make sure you have a plan for internet. There's very little broadband in rural areas, there can be lots of trees so Starlink may be questionable, and cell service is really poor and slow outside cities and towns.

It's not "lefties" it's "people." There's just more of them. More people, more problems, more compounding of problems. Doesn't matter what your political ideology is. Most people would rather live in a place with civil liberties than one that enforces religious dogma through law and enacts hate against non-whites, non-straight, and women in policy. So they tend to overcrowd the few places where they can have those liberties.

The people who believe in those things but don't like the overcrowding then move. Other like-minded people then follow. Over time, their destination becomes attractive to enough people it starts to face the same overcrowding problems.

Solution is to enact civil liberty policies and unwind religious dogma from law everywhere so future generations in the currently unattractive less-populated areas won't grow up so bigoted. Then there's no need to have places like Seattle get so overcrowded.

I seriously doubt a trooper is going to pull you over for a Nov sticker on Dec 1.

The charity is well funded with plenty of cash reserves. They should have no problem keeping their food supply stocked. They use manufactured "crises" like these to scare up donations. "OH no our cats will die give us all your money or you're a cat hater!" It's a scam.

Mods, this is the second animal charity scam in a week posted here. It's really tough for people to do their diligence and realize they are getting scammed. Please be very aggressive and simply delete/ban anybody asking for money or donations of any sort on this sub.

For me it's Tiffany Smiley. Every damn day, 4-6 messages. I get unlimited text and they get picked up by T-Mobile spam blocker, so no impacts. But just to show this is not a party-specific thing, and should be outright illegal for all of them.

(Sorry, this meant to go on the main thread)

If only the tax dollars were invested in climate change prevention early enough to prevent the need to invest in wildfire fighting.

Block corporate funding for political campaigns. Stop gerrymandering. Restrict campaigning so it's the exact same for all candidates - and same cost. Ranked choice voting.

We know what needs to be done, just no power to get it changed. You can't fix the system using the broken system.

Yeah, I wasn't thinking in Gold Bar itself (I mean, Gold Bar is like 2 blocks long lol). More like if they wanted to head east to do anything, road closure could be a problem. Air quality is bad everywhere, and particularly bad in that specific area given how close the fire is. We cancelled our camping trip in Chelan (from the west) simply because we didn't want to deal with any of that and have no idea if the air quality will be red or green those days.

I think that's an understatement. Basically it'll be unhealthy to be outside at all. But it's not like you're going to get evacuated - fire lines are keeping the fire from heading towards any populated areas so it's burning off in the other direction. Road closures will be your other main issue as burned trees and rocks tumble down from the hills.

Reality is - if you have an option to not go, then don't. Why put up with all that? You're not going to enjoy it.

The nice months are late-May through early-Oct, highs for most people of 60-90 and lows from 30-55 (a bell curve over those months, naturally). The rain/snow is the opposite - late-Oct through early-May, highs of 25-55 and lows of 10-40.

It's pretty much sunny through the mid period of the nice months, and pretty much consistent rain through the mid period of the other months. Outside of that it can either be pleasant or grey and drizzly. Some years you get grey and drizzle up until the Summer Solstice (like this year), and the sun can continue well past the Fall Equinox (like this year). Everything right now is all browned out and dry as a bone with little to no rain in sight for a lot of WA. Fires are a problem and there's a lot of smoke. Other years we'll be getting drenched.

You'll get some variation on this theme depending on East vs West and elevation. There's a banana belt out on the islands, a lot more snow in the mountains, and a lot more heat and cold out East. Overall it's decent enough but you have to like rain and cool more than dry and warm or you'll be miserable.