Owners of old houses, caught in the center of huge megacities, are often offered crazy money for real estate. In most cases, they agree: sums with several zeros are very convincing. But there are also those who are madly devoted to their own home and land and do not agree to sell them even for huge amounts of money.
It's not about money: devotion to the earth
The owner of this house refused a luxurious offer of a million dollars. Do you know what cartoon he became a prototype for? Meet the same house that went on a journey in balloons from the cartoon "Up!".
In the north of France lives the old man Salah Ujani, who refused to sell his cafe, with which he had been inseparable for 46 years. Now his house is the only building left in the center of a huge construction site.
The government intentionally paved a high-speed highway around the house. The owner could not stand the constant noise and moved out, and the building became a symbol of protest by the developers.
A small house looks beautiful and cute against the background of high apartment buildings.
A small house, sandwiched between two high-rises, is like a child, taken care of by parents.
The developer achieved his goal by buying a house for $ 4 million, but won nothing: construction was already underway, and it was easier to turn the house into a pizzeria.
The church is an island of peace and tranquility in the sea of high-rise buildings and noise.
The Gothic-style house dilutes the boring and dull pastoral of a city filled with skyscrapers.
Modern architecture or retro? The original combination of almost incompatible styles.