The US may be gentler, but I take issue with "properly compensated". My grandfather owned a grocery store on the path of a new highway in Texas. The government

The US may be gentler, but I take issue with "properly compensated". My grandfather owned a grocery store on the path of a new highway in Texas. The government bought every house in the neighborhood first, depriving him of customers, then made him an extremely low offer based on his now extremely-reduced revenues. Better than arson or threats, but not exactly nice or fair.