Luo Baogen and his wife are the lone holdouts from a neighborhood that was demolished to make way for the main thoroughfare heading to a newly built railway station on the outskirts of the city of Wenling in Zhejiang province.
"Nail house" families occasionally have resorted to violence. Some homeowners have set themselves on fire in protests. Often, they keep 24-hour vigils because developers will shy away from bulldozing homes when people are inside.
— in2eastafrica.net
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My cousin was telling me that there was apparently a farmer who did this when the motorway between Leeds and Manchester was built... eventually (supposedly) the govt agreed to split the motorway so that it embraces the farmland on each side, and also built a tunnel under the roadway to give him access to his land. But apparently the joke is on him in a sense, because the land is not really very usable anymore and of course he'll never be able to sell it, because who would want land in the middle of a motorway?
While this kind of protest seems laudable on the surface, in the end doesn't it just create needless suffering, in the name of avoiding suffering?
These people don't even look like they got a tunnel.
$60,000, the difference between what he just paid for his home and what he was originally offered, can be a lifetime of savings, especially for a farmer.
The house will be eventually torn down and they will be relocated...
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