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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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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]].
For the webcomic of the same name, go [[Not in My Backyard!|here]].
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