'They demolished my house for this?' Residents outraged by the Foxconn factory that fizzled
by Tom Perkins in Wisconsin from Technology | The Guardian on (#5BC4G)
In Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, families were forced out for a huge hi-tech plant - but three years later, it still hasn't been built
When Sean McFarlane recently returned to the site where his lifelong home was demolished, he found in its place a retention pond and hundreds of geese perched on a hill.
The quiet scene came as a shock. The Wisconsin village of Mount Pleasant had effectively forced him, his girlfriend and four children from their home in 2017 to make way for a proposed 20m sq ft hi-tech plant owned by the Taiwanese electronics giant Foxconn, a plant Donald Trump had said would soon be the eighth wonder of the world".
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