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It seems like nowadays, preserving what you have in your neighborhood will get you the "NIMBY" label, especially if those concerns can strain infrastructure and the general dynamic of the area. Ironically, the folks who dictate what should or shouldn't be in their neighborhood aren't just conservatives that fall into that category, but even liberals fall into this as well, both from my own experience and on these boards.
With that all said, how do you distinguish someone who prefers a more quiet lifestyle to someone who falls into that "NIMBY" attitude?
Yes, NIMBYs are almost always liberal. No, they dont want the half-way house in their gentrified, hip urban area but will criticize the 'evil rich' for not wanting it in their suburb. NIMBYs have the best intentions - as long as it's not in their back yard or with their money...
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Yes, NIMBYs are almost always liberal. No, they dont want the half-way house in their gentrified, hip urban area but will criticize the 'evil rich' for not wanting it in their suburb. NIMBYs have the best intentions - as long as it's not in their back yard or with their money...
So, you'd have us believe the deregulation cowboys would happily build their houses on the banks of a Love Canal, just downwind from a coal-ash spewing power plant?
Out here in VA, there's always massive construction going on from housing to a rail project connecting Dulles to DC. So far there hasn't been any huge NIMBY outrage as things like the rail projects would actually increase property value.
Over in MD, there's group of wealthy individuals from the town of Chevy Chase who are trying to stop a light rail project from being built. The goal of the light rail project is to connect other inner ring DC suburbs that are mostly working class areas (they could be gentrified however). It's becoming quite an entertaining turn events from lawsuits claiming environmental harm (no proof) to fences. To be fair, it will be built on a trail going through their backyards and would shorten a trail but even the Republican governor was ok with that.
Most NIMBY conflicts can largely be avoided by proper zoning.
However, NIMBYism can rear its head in instances that transcend zoning, such as in cases of proposed section 8 housing construction.
In these cases, middle and upper class liberals are by far the biggest scumbags in the nation. They'll protest for "Black lives matter" but wouldn't dare live near any of them in any significant fashion if they can help it.
This dynamic is readily observable by observing housing patterns between the liberal North and the conservative South. The liberal North is, unquestionably, the most racially segregated part of the nation. Large portions of the South are some of the most integrated regions in the world. Conservatives will live near others as long as those others are good citizens. Liberals will talk the talk, but rarely walk the walk (though they will force their more conservative lower class brethren to do so in their place).
The truth is that zoning should be established and relatively unchangeable in any community. Thus, one can anticipate what might be built in an area before one buys in it. No one would reasonably be able to complain in such a situation, and builders could not get away with bringing something to a neighborhood that the community members did not bargain for.
So, you'd have us believe the deregulation cowboys would happily build their houses on the banks of a Love Canal, just downwind from a coal-ash spewing power plant?
Yes, NIMBYs are almost always liberal. No, they dont want the half-way house in their gentrified, hip urban area but will criticize the 'evil rich' for not wanting it in their suburb. NIMBYs have the best intentions - as long as it's not in their back yard or with their money...
No one wants the half way house near them. Idiots walk away from those all the time. They wanted to put a methadone clinic in a neighborhood here. Put it near other businesses, not next to peoples homes.... We have fought against halfway houses in suburban areas, there are better places, not right on top of family homes. For sale- lovely 3 br cape on quiet street, next to heroin clinic. Nooo.
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