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Your average NIMBY doesn't want _any_ change. They want their neighborhoods to be preserved exactly the way they are without anything changing. Higher property
by genocidicbunny 5y ago
Your average NIMBY doesn't want _any_ change. They want their neighborhoods to be preserved exactly the way they are without anything changing.
Higher property values is just a mask to hide the less palatable message of 'I want to ossify my neighborhood'.
- mbg721 5y agoAnother way to frame that is "I'm heavily personally invested in this neighborhood, and I don't want all the things that I love about it to be lost." Change for change's sake isn't necessarily good.
- coolspot 5y agoCareful when you talk like that to a Genocidic Bunny.
- genocidicbunny 5y agoYes, and that is the framing that is commonly used by NIMBYs. The trouble is, this is akin to trying to stop the ocean from breaking waves on the beach. The change is going to happen. You can stand against it, or you can work with it to get a mutually beneficial outcome. If you choose to stand against it, don't be surprised when the world either rolls you over or goes around you.
- mbg721 5y ago
- genocidicbunny 5y agoWell if we keep going with that metaphor -- the crotchety rock might resist, but ultimately it ends up as sand on the beach as well. And the ocean cares not whether its waves pound a rocky or sandy shore.
- ciphol 5y agoIt's not change for change's sake, it's change to provide housing and schooling and so on for a growing population.