Smart or Not?

[taiwan_girl]

I appreciate his desire to not sell, but.............

https://www.npr.org/2024/03/16/1236266122/florida-man-refused-sell-home-developer-coral-gables

There's something unusual about a new real estate development in the posh South Florida city of Coral Gables. Smack-dab in the middle of the million-square-foot complex, there's a small house. On all sides, it's surrounded — by parking garages, office buildings and a 14-story hotel.

For most of the year, his home is in shadows. Some of his trees and bushes are dying. His mango tree stopped giving fruit.

Just getting to Capote's house requires special directions, taking you down one-way streets in the retail and residential complex to an unmarked alley that ends at his backyard. There are piles of yard debris that he can't get the city to pick up, he says.

I think that is his home on the right side of the picture.

[89th]

[89th]

Satellite via on Google Maps, most of the neighborhood looks like his outside of the development zone

[taiwan_girl]

Looks like that was before everything was built up. Probably could not see his house now on satellite.

[89th]

Yeah street view is mixed too. Here it is driving 1/2 a block towards his address. His house is after those stop signs and black bridge thingy.

And then here is if you proceed a half block further next to his house:

[89th]

Haha and here is how he accesses his backyard driveway: