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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."|[[Blue Heelers|Tom Croydon,]] ''[[Novelization|Tom's Story]]''. }}
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.
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For the webcomic of the same name, go [[Not in My Backyard|here]].
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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.
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* 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".
* In ''[[Pharaoh]]'', there are many buildings that produce various entertainers and service providers required to keep your citizens happy. Unfortunately, while the walkers are welcome, the ''buildings'' themselves are not. Reasons range from the sensible (industrial buildings are ugly, noisy and smelly) to [[Fridge Logic]] (people coming and going from the dance school). Most cities end up with [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|a few zones of highly-developped housing, requiring vast slums of workers to keep the rich society's services running correctly]].
== Western Animation ==
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