The Eye of Jinxi, the most famous nail house in China’s Jianxi Province, was recently abandoned by its owner, who couldn’t stand the noise of the cars passing by his home 24/7.
The Eye of Jinxi made news headlines in China in April, when a highway built around it was inaugurated. Like other nail house owners across the Asian country, Huang Ping (pseudonym) refused the regional government’s offer to buy his property and decided to stick to his guns even when everyone else in the area moved out. At one point, Huang got a large enough compensation package of approximately 1.6 million yuan ($223,000), but didn’t agree to the condition that the price be paid in two installments. He would live to regret his decision, because the government decided to simply build the road around his property, turning it into an isolated nail house.
