A quiet location looks different. A stubborn homeowner in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangxi did not want to give way for the construction of a highway – he was not happy with the conditions imposed by the Jinxi (金溪) county government. Unfortunately, he is even less satisfied with the result: The highway was unceremoniously built around his house, and he can only enter his property through a pipe. The bizarre spectacle first spread on social media in China and then also on Western platforms. Online, the building has been given the honorary title of „coolest nail house“ („最牛钉子户“). In China, „nail houses“ are the name given to all the houses of stubborn owners who refuse to leave the field during construction projects. This happens more often in the People’s Republic than you might think. The term has even made it into an international Wikipedia entry that has been translated to German – feel free to look it up.