I would hate to live here.

[Omnis]

Similar - M62 in England. The residents of this farmhouse refused to move so they simply built the M62 (one of the most major roads in the UK) around them.

Forget the house. People are driving on the wrong side of the road!

 

[Liquid]

Forget the house. People are driving on the wrong side of the road!

But everyone is driving on the wrong side of the road, so it all balances out quite nicely.

Car manufacturers, ever the thoughtful conglomerates of our world, even put the steering wheel on the wrong side to compensate.

 

[opelgt1969]

But everyone is driving on the wrong side of the road, so it all balances out quite nicely.

Car manufacturers, ever the thoughtful conglomerates of our world, even put the steering wheel on the wrong side to compensate.

Not to mention the highway dept put the signs on wrong side too!

 

[niky]

Must be a communist country then, if everyone's driving on the... well... you know...

 

[terminator363]

This is madness, someone help those souls.

 

[Dennisch]

The Chinese government has demolished the house today, and the old people living there have received roughly 32k, Euros.

 

[Liquid]

~£28,000/~€32,000/~$40,000?

More than enough to buy a new house, clearly (!)

But nowhere near enough to make a new home.

 

[W3H5]

28'000 pounds? No where near enough for a half decent apartment even.

That equals roughly 300'000RMB which is enough to just about buy a BMW 1 series here. Considering my family's (rather large) apartment is valued at 3.5m I doubt they'll be happy with that payout.

 

[Grayfox]

That was the main issue.

The amount they were offered was not enough to buy a new house or build one.

Did the tenets agree to move?
As mentioned under Chinese law they can not be the building can not be taken down with someone living their or did the government go "We make the laws and we can ignore them since we made them"

 

[Dennisch]

According to the village chief Chen Xuecai the owner got tired of all the media attention and agreed to leave his house.