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by scuba7183 4300 days ago
If someone showed up at your house and told you that you had to leave, would you?
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mike-cardwell 4300 days ago
Personally, it would depend on why they want me to move. If it's so they can build something of huge public benefit and have sound reasoning for why it needs to go through my house, and I'm compensated suitably, then yes of course I would leave. Doing otherwise would be selfish.

But if they don't fulfill all of those requirements, I would probably still move if they increased the compensation offering enough.

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toyg 4300 days ago
Concepts like "huge public benefit" and "sound reasoning" are in the eye of the beholder; and as mentioned above, money isn't everything. Especially for old people, memories can be more of a comfort than cash, and losing your home inevitably means losing some of those memories.
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mike-cardwell 4287 days ago
> Concepts like "huge public benefit" and "sound reasoning" are in the eye of the beholder;

Yes. That's why my first word was "Personally"

> and as mentioned above, money isn't everything.

Yes. That's why I wrote "compensated suitably" and "increased the compensation offering enough".

> Especially for old people, memories can be more of a comfort than cash, and losing your home inevitably means losing some of those memories.

That seems rather condescending to old people to me.

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