#52: Life Is a Highway
It’s only normal for people to get attached to their homes, especially if they’ve been living in them for many years. You can’t really blame this person for not wanting to evacuate when the government wanted to tear down his house to build a(nother) highway. Perhaps he had nowhere else to go, and perhaps he was just comfortable there and had no interest in moving.
The weirdest part about this story is that this isn’t the only time that’s happened in China (and other places around the world). There have been other cases of people refusing the evacuate, leaving the government no choice but to build around their house. It sounds strange, but if someone owns the property and land, you can’t force them to move out.