Nimbys

There's a great risk that people will think of the residents as 'nimbys'. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We are NOT 'nimbys' or 'parochial' or any other childish insults Preston can come up with.

Perhaps she should consider English lessons before calling others 'nimbys' regarding a subject she so obviously knows very little about.

Already Blackburn MP Jack Straw and the borough's council leader have said they would fight the plans, prompting Preston council leader Ken Hudson to label them 'nimbys'.

The row over the plans is dividing the county, with Preston council leader Ken Hudson branding Blackburn with Darwen council leaders "nimbys" and saying the area should focus on its industrial heritage and not try to compete with his city's shopping might.

It may be suggested that if homes must be built on green fields anyway, an alternative to large developments on the edge of big towns would be to scatter them on a small scale around various rural areas, where many would-be 'nimbys' may think twice if it is their grown-up children who are desperate to find affordable homes in these locations. ❋ Unknown (2008)

'nimbys' regarding a subject she so obviously knows very little about. spurspants, Chingford says ...

Because some people actually care to design and plan for their neighborhoods, which is the purpose of neighborhood planning, and object to the plan coming from essentially the Nickels administration, you castigate them as nimbys. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But at the same time, all the nimbys who built or bought out there, you chose that area and the airport was there loooong before you so adapt or migrate. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When safer shallower areas and on land drilling sites are roped off by govt nimbys what are drillers supposed to do? ❋ Unknown (2010)

They could only open certain hours, for a very limited number of people, and the nimbys wailed over each tour bus which desecrated their high-dollar environs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The government's planning and housing policies are a "nimbys 'charter" set to "strangle" the self-build sector, says one of Britain's self-build experts. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If only half of the nimbys not in my back yard out their that bit off more than they could chew, paid there bills like the rest of us, we would't be in this mess. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When you suggest alternative energy, you run head on into nimbys. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I'm still very anti the liberals who when it came down to it were 'equality nimbys' ... arragh ! ❋ Jes (2009)

Probably because these same nimbys fight employment opportunities for others at every juncture. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Although the community [council] supported the [zoning] change, the NIMBYs argued strongly against the expansion of the [trailer park] ❋ Hammer Hands (2006)

Other forms of NIMBY include the NOPE ([Not On] [Planet Earth]), the BANANA (Build [Absolutely Nothing] Anywhere Near Anyone), and the TEDAO (Tear Everything Down At Once). ❋ Shreve Lamb And Harmon (2005)

We wanted to build a bunch of [windmills] near city Y, but those NIMBY idiots keep [blocking] our [plans]. ❋ Minusforty (2008)

1) They were proposing to build a freeway through Vancouver in the 1960s, but the stupid NIMBYs from [Gastown] and Chinatown got pissed and the project got posponed due to [NIMBYism], now Vancouver is full of dogways! 2) They want to build Skytrain to Richmond on Cambie St. and the NIMBYs are pissed off already! 3) Man Vancouver has alot of [dogway] loving NIMBYs!!! ❋ Nimbys_suck (2003)

NIMBYs [cause] [a lot of things] to not [get done]. ❋ Korora (2003)

NIMBY ❋ Planetdownunder (2010)

[Yo u] just rolled a [shitty ass] blunt it looks like the nimbis 500 from harry potter. Why the fuck did we let you roll its always a nimbis. Who the fuck gave the blunt to this nimbis [roller]. ❋ Mike Ivory (2007)

[Farmer John] lobbied to have the wind [turbines] built father away from his house so he could sleep [through the night], but the people from the city accused him of being a NIMBY and told him to deal with it ❋ Farmer_John (2012)

Do you see that [nimbie] over there [drooling] on himself. Yeah dude he is the biggest nimbie I've seen [by far]. ❋ Nimbei5000 (2017)

[I moved] next to Los Angeles International Airport in 1994, and the noise is incredible! I'm going to set up an action group. We will then complain to the local authorities and FORCE the airlines to spend MILLIONS just to keep the noise down. (I should have used my BRAIN before purchasing a house under the flightpath! The local [racetrack] was here BEFORE I WAS BORN, and in actual fact has EVERY RIGHT to [make noise]. For some reason I didn't wonder why the house was so cheap in the first place .....) ❋ I P Freely (2005)