- so they built a ramshackle city on the side of one of America's busiest freeways Caesar Duarte didn't flinch as an Amazon truck barreled down the busy 110 Freeway in Los Angeles, missing his makeshift home by just a few feet.
The only thing that stood between Duarte's outdoor kitchen and speeding vehicles was a three-foot retaining wall and metal fencing.
The 44-year-old mechanic and house painter said he has learned to deal with the danger and noise since he erected his homestead by the freeway about four years ago.
'It doesn't bother me, and also I have no choice,' Duarte told DailyMail.com. 'Everything is too expensive. Rent is too expensive, and right now it's hard to find jobs.