In an upper-middle class leafy neighbourhood in my hometown of Melbourne, there's a retirement home run by a charity, for people with special needs. They wanted

In an upper-middle class leafy neighbourhood in my hometown of Melbourne, there's a retirement home run by a charity, for people with special needs. They wanted to expand to double capacity, and the complaints came rolling in. The usual to be expected "The expansion is ugly, and will bring down the tone of the neighbourhood" (read: lower house prices with more homeless retirees around), with the best being "The expansion will need to cut down a beautiful 100-year-old tree" Getting services for underprivileged people in a wealthy neighbourhood was always going to be tough, but the kicker for me was this - the residents against the expansion were clear to state "We're not NIMBYs!". Really? What kind of things do you think NIMBYs complain about, if not exactly what you've just said?