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Not if you pay them accordingly. Moving is not that big a deal. I am talking about projects for public benefit. Some things have to be built somewhere, after all.
"Moving is not that big a deal." I'm going to venture a guess that either you've never moved or if you have, you just threw nearly all your possessions out and started completely anew.
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If (for whatever bizarre reason) your job is to go from place to place smashing a list of windows, then you might have a legitimate defence. No reasonable person could confuse their own house for that of a neighbour, but someone could reasonably enter the wrong house number into a database or misread a job sheet. This sort of stuff happens all the time. A backhoe driver misreads a site plan and digs straight through…
OK, so let's expand the analogy a bit.... I don't smash your window with a hammer, but I hire a guy to do it for me. Afterwards, I claim it was a mixup, and that I meant to hire him to smash my window. After a long history of attempting to pay my neighbor to replace his window, and complaining about how much I dislike his window, and how I really really want it gone, would this not be sufficiently clear that this was…
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OK, so let's expand the analogy a bit.... I don't smash your window with a hammer, but I hire a guy to do it for me. Afterwards, I claim it was a mixup, and that I meant to hire him to smash my window. After a long history of attempting to pay my neighbor to replace his window, and complaining about how much I dislike his window, and how I really really want it gone, would this not be sufficiently clear that this was…
It depends on how much money your neighbor would want to spend on legal fees proving your malicious intent. You are offering to replace the window, so there's not much more a civil court could demand of you.
If they wouldn't, I want to know this, because it would be really handy to have this sort of tool at my disposal. (And important to know that others have it at their disposal to potentially use against me!).
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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.
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.
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.