Not in My Back Yard: Difference between revisions

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{{quote|"Prisons have to be built somewhere. Everybody just prefers that it's in NIMBY - Not in My Back Yard thanks."

 

There are many things in life whose existence is desirable, or even essential to the society we live in, but that people generally don't want to live ''too'' close to. They might be noisy, smelly, polluting, dangerous, or just ugly. However as any ''[[SimCity]]'' player will tell you, not everything can be in the middle of nowhere - for people to have cheap and convenient access to them, they have to be near to civilization.

Also known as [[Fun with Acronyms|NIMBY]]. There is apparently a more extreme version that does believe that everything noisy, smelly, polluting, dangerous or ugly should be built in the middle of nowhere, dubbed "BANANAs" - "Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone", which is a viable option... [[Easy Logistics|in some video games]].

 

 

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== Anime & Manga ==

* ''[[Emerging]]'': The Department of Virology, located in the National Institute for Infectious Diseases has the potential to operate as a BSL-4 (which is required to deal with deadly diseases such as Ebola and the unknown disease ravaging Tokyo), however it only operates at as a BSL-3 due to opposition from local residents and communities. This is an example of [[Truth in Television]] for the real life National Institute for Infectious Diseases located in Kanto, Japan.

* Present in ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]''. Obviously it is a bad idea to leave rotting meat in an indoor refuse pile near a place dwarves will frequently have to pass through, as the miasma it gives off will disgust nearby fortress dwellers. More subtly, it is a bad idea to create bedrooms near frequently used crafting workshops, next to areas under current excavation, or just next to rooms in which dwarves are hauling around and placing furniture. Doing so will result in any dwarves sleeping in said rooms having an unhappy through at their uneasy sleep due to the noise.

* ''[[Constructor]]'': High-level tenants are conscious of their neighbors, especially if you group Nerds together with noisy Hippies on the same estate. They also tend to demand more costly fences. The most expensive one is the Insurmountable Monolith, which more closely resembles the Berlin Wall. Only Yuppies want to live next to this monstrosity, which they dub "Art Deco".

 

== Western Animation ==

* For other forms of energy production: Wind Turbines. They might be better for the environment than huge power plants but when they're in operation they're ''very'' noisy.

* Highways and freeways. They make things easier for business and tourists, but also bring in a lot of noise and pollution. Residential areas are kept away from these for just these two reasons, and mostly businesses and public service buildings are near them.

 

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