Nimby

politically correct green (as in vegetation) nimbies (may object to nuclear power plants, polluting factories, etc.)

socially conservative brown (as in shirts) nimbies (may object to the building of jails, prisons, housing for ex-convicts, drinking or adult entertainment establishments)

fiscally conservative green (as in money) nimbies (may object to the building of anything which may decrease preexisting property values)

Of course, in China everything is determined by the state. So many times, when I asked how China had managed to build this network so quickly, I was told that it was because the government had backed it. And, of course, there are fewer Nimbys in an authoritarian state.

Their vote against measures to help refugees has been perceived by the socially conscious margin of society as a typically nimby attitude.

[…] to be obvious exaggerations of the threats, but rather focused on critiquing the means employed—i.e., the various enforcement techniques that adversely affected innocent bystanders—and in a very nimby (not in my back yard) sort of way.

In cities like Houston, for example, all-white zoning boards targeted Black neighborhoods for the siting of noxious facilities, like landfills, incinerators and garbage dumps. Robert Bullard, a professor of urban planning and environmental policy at Texas Southern University, has called the practice “PIBBY” or “Place In Blacks’ Back Yard” — a spin on the acronym “NIMBY” (“Not In My Back Yard”).

The very thought of having even a secure landfill anywhere near them is anathema to most Americans today. It's an attitude referred to in the trade as NIMBY -- "not in my backyard."

Newman believes much of the resistance to the project stems from NIMBY (Not-In-My-Back-Yard) sentiment

From NIMBY (Not In MY Backyard) syndrome stalling several projects, Goa has moved ahead rationally to write a new chapter at Loliem, Canacona by welcoming location of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) to the village.

Here again, the NIMBYs will try to derail any new dam project.

To distinguish themselves from NIMBYs, the current generation of housing activists has adopted new “back yard” variants (YIMBY, “Yes in my backyard”; PHIMBY, “Public housing in my backyard”; YIGBY, “Yes in God’s backyard”) to declare how they are for things (everything, subsidized housing, building on church parking lots) that a NIMBY presumably is not.

"Our CEQA process is clearly broken when a few wealthy Berkeley homeowners can block desperately needed student housing for years and even decades," Newsom's office said in a statement. "California cannot afford to be held hostage by NIMBYs who weaponize CEQA to block student and affordable housing. This selfish mindset is driving up housing prices, and making our state less affordable."

The problem is that these demands tend to be more parochial than millenial,^([sic]) much more NIMBY (not in my back yard) than global, and more concerned with financial well-being than ecological health.

How much more NIMBY can we get?

“There's a very 'NIMBY' feel about it,” Allen said.

Some are NIMBY neighbors who don't want the traffic or changes in their neighborhood.

Why is California more NIMBY than Texas, for instance, or Austin more NIMBY than Houston?