Road built around house as Chinese couple refuse to move

A couple's home in eastern China has been turned into a roundabout after a road was built around it, when they refused to move out.

Luo Baogen and his wife are the only residents left in a neighbourhood of once-connected homes that was demolished to make way for a major road.

The thoroughfare leads to a newly built railway station on the outskirts of the city of Wenling in Zhejiang province.

Mr Luo said the house cost 600,000 Yuan (around £60,000) to build, but the authorities have offered substantially less to relocate him.

23 November 2012 Last updated at 11:08 GMT

That’s curious news. I saw that on the television and I think that this couple has to leave their home and they don't want to do it and now, they are still at home.

That’s quite amazing because, has been turned into a roundabout after a road was built around it, when they refused to move out.

They are a good example for all these people who fights for the important things in life, this couple is fighting against China, and they’re still winning.

I think that the old people are more fighter than the young ones because they have lived there all their life and they don’t want to move out, and maybe the young people aren’t so fighters bacause, with all new technologies, they are accustomed to the change (like they change their relationships or phone) and they also have the life solved because all the actually parents give a lot and more than that for their children. 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20463192