This unique picture of a bridge built around a tiny house in China has been going around on social media for some time. The story behind this arrangement is that the owner of the house refused to budge from the place as according to her the government was not giving her the proper compensation. As she continues to live there, she has no problem, and neither does she cares what the world thinks of her.
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The Chinese government has built a uniq motorway bridge around a tiny house in Guangzhou after the owner refused to sell it.
This building is known as a 'nail house' because the owner rejected compensation from a developer to demolish it.
So after the bridge is built, the view for this house includes two wings of the Haizhuyong Bridge, which opened in 2020.
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According to Guangdong TV station, the one-storey house contains a 40-square-meter (430-square-foot) flat and is situated in a pit in the middle of the four-lane traffic link. Dark and noisy - just what everyone wants.
MailOnline reports the owner of the house, Liang stated that she refused to move from her house because the government had failed to offer her a replacement property in an ideal location.
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She said that she is happy with the consequences and it does not matter what people think of her.
She explained: "You think this environment is poor, but I feel it's quiet, liberating, pleasant and comfortable." Well, OK... maybe that was the case before the bridge was built...
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Government officials said they earmarked the plot for demolition in 2010 to build the Haizhuyong Bridge. A decade later, they got it set up, albeit not entirely how they thought it would be.
According to authorities, Ms. Liang was given the option of many flats, including cash compensation but she refused to accept any.
They added that they will continue to communicate with Ms. Liang and that the engineers for the bridge have studied the relevant safety issues before constructing the bridge, to make sure it's fine for her to continue living there.
Well, if we look at it, then this is China's version of the UK's house in the middle of the M62 motorway - only in this case, the owner wasn't too stubborn to move, despite popular beliefs as to its history.
The real reason Stott Hall Farm is slap-bang in the middle of the motorway was because a geological fault beneath it would have been a massive ballache to sort out.
According to Yorkshire Water, the land on which the house was built contains a 'geological anomaly' which made it 'impossibly steep' for six lanes to be built upon it.
Ken Wild's granddaughter, Kimberley Pollard, spoke to The Huddersfield Daily Examiner some years ago. She said: "The story is my granddad was a stubborn old Yorkshireman who refused to move - but he's actually from Lancashire.
"He was far too subdued for that - and he wouldn't have had a choice in the matter because the farm was rented from Yorkshire Water."