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Relentless Residents: 10 More Households That Refuse to Move

When real estate developers come knocking, it seems that the majority of homeowners are willing to move out for the right price - but then there are some who take a stand and refuse to give up ...

Holdout Houses: 10 Stubborn Structures That Won’t Make Way

Despite the emergence of highways, shopping malls, frighteningly deep pits and even moats around them, the tenacious owners of these older structures refused to give in to developers, remaining ...

Nail House: Holdout Building Had Highway Built Around It

China is full of strange stories of so-called 'nail houses' - homes of people who refuse to move to make way for a large development project. Still, this one was particularly unique: its owners ...

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