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The phenomenon is a major part of many [[Simulation Game|Simulation Games]], where the player must balance necessary or lucrative buildings against residents' quality of life.
 
Also known as [[Fun Withwith 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 (Webcomic)|here]].
 
 
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[Emerging (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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* An episode of ''[[Boston Legal]]'' focused on this problem, with some townspeople employing the firm to stop the production of a nuclear power plant in their area. Opposing counsel actually points out the use of this trope and rhetorically asks ''where'' they're meant to put the plant, as they'd already thought they'd chosen a perfectly remote location before the ruckus started.
* This is the title of ''[[Midsomer Murders]]'' episode in which an unpopular real estate development planned for a small village results in murder.
* In ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'', taking [[Not in My Back Yard]] to its logical extreme, the Malon are a race that never bothered to develop clean ways of disposing of waste, because they simply shipped it all off to somewhere else, a long way away.
* In [[Desperate Housewives]], the neighborhood holds a protest rally after plans for moving convicts into their street start going ahead. It ends badly. For everyone.
 
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* There's an episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' where a [[Museum of Boredom|stamp museum]] is being built directly behind the Simpsons' house. The family aren't best pleased at having a construction site practically in their back garden, and successfully lobby to have it moved - it's shifted onto the site of Springfield Cemetery, which is promptly moved behind the Simpsons' house, giving Lisa nightmares.
** They then visit the stamp museum and complain about how long the journey took.
* ''[[Johnny and Thethe Sprites]]'': In "The Sprites Save Grotto's Grove," a super-annoying real-estate developer shows up with exciting plans to build a hotel. It sounds great at first, until Johnny and the Sprites realize that it would require the complete destruction of Grotto's Grove, not to mention most of Johnny's literal backyard.
* In the 90's ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' cartoon; Shredder and Baxter were raiding a hidden science testing facility deep in the bad part New York City. When asked why it was ''here'' of all places by Baxter, Shredder replies on how it's because "if it blows up the neighborhood, nobody cares."
 
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