A stubborn grandfather had a motorway built around his house in China after refusing to move, despite being offered £180,000 in compensation.
Huang Ping’s two-storey home in Jinxi, China, is now surrounded by a construction site with constant dust, noisy builders and vibrating walls.
He says he now regrets not taking the Chinese government’s money and fears what living in his property will be like once the expressway opens in Spring.
“If I could turn back time, I would agree to the demolition conditions they offered. Now it feels like I lost a big bet,” he said.
180k is pennies when you’re asking someone to move out of their own home.
And it probably cost them 10x that to make all the modifications and special allowances to build around the house. They definitely could have increased the offer.
I suspect they do this to show the other holdouts what happens when you want more than everyone else got.
He could 100% have gotten a new house for that. Thats nearly 2 million yuan. So long as hes not going to like, Beijing, anyhow.