The migrant crisis has reached a critical point - it's angering the NIMBYs

[Sympthsical]

And that's why it's a serious political problem.

It's easy to be blithely unconcerned about the border when the problems arising from failed policy only affect distant border regions. Ensconced in comfortable suburban or city environments, the impact has largely been minimal for a lot of people for a long time.

That's changing.

And the NIMBYs are not happy.

NIMBYs vote, btw.

[SheilaAnn]

1. Who, what are NIMBYs?

[chowder66]

2. Not In My Backyard.

[Ocelot II]

4. It stands for Not In My Back Yard.

NIMBYs are people who care only about those events that occur near them, usually the appearance of those people or things like group homes or subsidized housing in their neighborhoods.

[Sympthsical]

5. People who don't want their neighborhoods changed

For example. Say you're for a drug addiction rehabilitation center. You think it's a good idea, you vote for it, you support spending funds on it.

Then the city or state decides they're going to build that center down the street from you.

Now there are town meetings full of people - who voted for the center - yelling at representatives that they have children, and having addicts so close to them would be dangerous, and what will do that do to property values, and we should have been consulted so we could vote it down, etc. etc. etc.

Not in my backyard.

This is my entire neighborhood, so I see this stuff all day everyday. Our NextDoor page is wild.

[Ocelot II]

7. Nextdoor is the Internet of NIMBYs.

[Sympthsical]

10. I love it

My neighbors are entitled and insane - a virulent, but entertaining mixture.

My partner and I often swap stories of the shit we see on there over morning coffee.

[Ocelot II]

11. My Nextdoor isn't too bad, but there are occasional outbreaks of NIMBism

and it's always the same people.

[TheProle]

6. "Not in my back yard"

[SheilaAnn]

8. Thank you for the responses to my question. n/t

[pinkstarburst]

9. "not in my backyard"

Hypocritical people who say they support something as long as that undesirable "something" goes in on the other side of town.

So where I live they keep trying to get unhoused people off the streets, out of the woods (all over town, where they are starting fires), and into housing. Seems like a good idea, right? Except every single time they propose a site for doing ANYTHING organized for the homeless, whether it is a new shelter, an outdoor campsite where they will bring in portable showers, toilets, internet, counseling and health services as well as meals several times a day, or buying hotels to convert into homeless housing, the people living next to that site sue and get all shouty with a long list of reasons why next to their house is the wrong site, but down the road 10 miles is the perfect site.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

3. Sanctuary cities need to stand strong!!