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I would take the $700k as well.

But this has zero relevance to the issues of private property rights raised in this thread. Same with your comments about the 7-year average for home ownership.

Homes are nothing but a commodity. Let's not romanticize it into more than it is.

For many people, a home is much more than a commodity. Some people have a deep attachment to their homes and land, which may have been in their family for generations, built up and beautified with their own ancestor's blood and sweat. I doubt they are faking their sentimentality just to piss you off.

But this too, is irrelevant to the issue of private property rights.

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Some people have a deep attachment to their homes and land, which may have been in their family for generations,

With the Darby Refuge the government, for the sake of some enviromental groups who were pushing them, tried to take homes away from families who'd lived in them since the days of the American Revolution. What a travesty our government has become.

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Some people have a deep attachment to their homes and land, which may have been in their family for generations, built up and beautified with their own ancestor's blood and sweat. I doubt they are faking their sentimentality just to piss you off.

Look I agree it sucks big time. But millions of people have had to be relocated or displaced over the last two centuries for railroads, highways, pipelines and commerical developments.