Life in the fast lane: Chinese city builds a motorway bridge around a tiny house after its stubborn owner refused to move for 10 years
A Chinese city has built a highway bridge around a tiny house after its owner refused to sell it to the government for a decade.
The building is one of many examples of 'nail houses' in
China - or 'dingzihu' in Mandarin - where homeowners reject compensation from a developer for its demolition.
The one-storey house contains a 40-square-metre (430-square-foot) flat and is situated in a pit in the middle of the four-lane traffic link, according to
Guangdong TV station.
The owner, known by her surname Liang, said she had not agreed to move because the government had failed to offer her a replacement property in an ideal location.
She added that she was happy to deal with the consequences and did not mind what other people thought of her.
'You think this environment is poor, but I feel it's quiet, liberating, pleasant and comfortable,' she claimed.
An insider told the station that Ms Liang had demanded the government give her four apartments, but the government had only agreed to two.
According to another interview recorded by
Pear Video, she claimed the government had offered her substitute accommodation next to a morgue, and that was why she hadn't settled.
Ms Liang is the only person out of a total of 47 households and seven firms that still lives there. All of the others had moved away by last September, officials said.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...bridge-house-stubborn-owner-refused-move.html
______________________________
crazy greedy woman, they offered her two new apartments yet she refused and wanted to have 4 instead. her excuse that she refused because it was near a morgue is total nonesense, so what if it was near a morgue! it's not like they will have dead bodies inside your own apartment! many people have houses near hospitals & some people obviously die in these hospitals, this is nothing new or special. now let her enjoy living in the middle of this "quiet, liberating" highway.