That was very kind of you, and I appreciate that you value life so much, no matter how small; but I’m going to say you are an extreme outlier.
Realistically, how many people would go to all that trouble to save an ant nest on land that they are building on? And that’s not mentioning how many ants probably died in the move or were left behind and died in the rebuilding of the foundation, even despite all the care you took.