Developers can’t move 86-year-old
You may not have heard of Edith Macefield, but she is one of the few people on earth who means it when she says that money isn’t everything.
Developers offered Macefield, an 86-year-old resident of Seattle, $1 million to move from her 108-year-old farmhouse to make room for a new commercial development. According to a story from the Associated Press, Macefield has refused the offer.
Her explanation? She is quoted in the Associated Press story as saying: “I don’t want to move. I don’t need the money. Money doesn’t mean anything.”
Macefield’s house is now the last on her block, and the developers are building a five-story commercial project around her. The home, in which Macefield has lived since 1966, has been assessed at $8,000 on land worth $120,000.
In the Associated Press story, Macefield says she drowns out the surrounding construction noise by turning up her television or blasting opera music.
What about you? How much money would it take to persuade you to leave your home?
Tags: Edith-Macefield, Seattle
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1 opinion for Developers can’t move 86-year-old
Mary Emma Allen
Dec 2, 2007 at 6:11 pm
If I were offered $1 million to sell our present home, I’d take it. Not that I don’t like it and its location. But I’d be willing to move on to a new adventure. We built this house and just about the time my husband finishes a house, we somehow find it time to start something new. However, I’m not 86-years old, which could make a difference.
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