Inconveniently located.

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Inconveniently located: When the town of Wenling in eastern China offered Luo Bagen $20,000 to move so a road could be built, he refused--and the government simply built the road around him. As part of its massive urbanization boom in the past 25 years, China now has 46,000 miles of interstate highway (compared with 47,000 in the U.S.). It plans to build thousands more in the next decade, making battles like Luo's more likely. Homeowners usually wind up on...