# They really \*can't\* go home again **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 31, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-cant-go-home-again/684964 "2014-03-31T04:34:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2014, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-cant-go-home-again/684964/1 "2014-03-31T04:34:26Z")
> **[Kiruna: How to move a town two miles east](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26447507)** > > A 20-year project to move a town in Lapland two miles from its current location in the Arctic Circle is about to begin. Not these people in Sweden. They’re entire town is being moved 2 miles east. They will have their homes bought from under them and offered a new property in the new town. The land is just too unsafe to live on anymore. And, yes, I posted this just because I thought of that headline. ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-cant-go-home-again/684964/2 "2014-04-01T09:34:03Z")
Meanwhile, in China, they have a right to go home if they so wish [http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=10176](http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=10176) ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2014, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/they-really-cant-go-home-again/684964/3 "2014-04-01T22:56:46Z")
Could be worse. At least the mining company is giving them a place to live. At some places in the US, companies have ruined the groundwater and the river, and gave nothing.