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I'm sure everyone here would love to have a public road going through their back yard.



It's one thing to buy a property and have someone say "guess what, we're building a road in your backyard lol!!" and an entirely different scenario to buy a property that already has a road going through and force the locals off a piece of land they've used for decades, bypassing the local laws to do so.

It's not a case of personal liberty, it's a case of someone with a lot of money overstepping their bounds because they think nobody will do anything about it.


I'm sure everyone here would also love to have property with direct beach access. Maybe there's no such thing as a (very expensive) free lunch.




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