I wish the government would come buy my house. It would save me a lot of trouble. But what about people who do not want to sell. Why should they be forced out by big money?
Just as an amusing aside, there is a piece of property right on a major intersection in Oakland California where all the major highways meet. You are probably seventy feet up, and if you look down, there is a squalid little home right smack dab in the middle of the freeway interchange. The owner held out since the mid 1960’s. It may be gone now, but was a textbook example of emminent domain vs the homeowner for years.