Is anyone NOT a Nimby?

[Loosehead]

According to this we all are:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1208335,00.html

I confess I probably am!

[Englishbird]

I can't get the link to work, but if you go to sky news and put nimby into the search area bottom left it comes up with the same report.

I am a Nimby but if I disagree with something then i like to think i'd support a protest if it was in someone elses backyard too. I'll admit I'm probably not so impassioned when it's in someone elses backyard, but I don't necessarily think it's ok, if I didn't when it was near me.

[CT]

here's the link again
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1208335,00.h tml

[jno]

I'm a Banana - Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody.

[gary baldy]

Depends what it is and what, if anything, its replacing.
If its being built in the countryside and annoying farmers, poor little rich kids with dreadlocks and middle class nimbys then i'm all for it.
If its knocking down old mills and factories and building retail parks then i'm against it.
More factories, more power stations and a few more motorways would be nice.

[spudqueen]

We're possibly the only household in our village which supports the building of 500 new houses just down the road. It is the site of an old mental hospital and we are thinking that they could build a lot worse on it than housing. Also, if it goes ahead I would strongly oppose the building of further housing around the village, so I suppose that makes me half a nimby! There was a new housing development on an old RAF site near the in-laws and to be honest after everybody being up in arms about it and complaining about the extra traffic etc they have now found that the only impact it has had is that there is now a local shop where previously there wasn't one for miles.

[flip-flop]

Yes, I think if everybody is completely truthful with themselves, they would have to honestly say yes, they are a Nimby.

I do not believe that anybody would welcome, for example, a travellers camp being set up at the bottom of their garden - the price of their house would plummet.

[Drusilla]

I think we probably are Loosehead. As a Londoner I get fed up with the infilling of our green spaces and get a little tired of countryfolk complaining about housing developments in their localities. It was only in my grandfathers day that most of West and NWLondon was a series of separate villages.
I think we need more government incentives to encourage business into the northern parts of this country. It seems crazy to continually build up the south whilst certain areas of the north are crying out for investment. Why should proud northerners be forced to move south for work, when radical regeneration policies could well employ them where they want to be?
But that's another question. Apologies, Loosehead.

[Drusilla]

spudqueen. you don't by any chance live in Lincolnshire, between Sleaford and Grantham, do you? There was a large mental hospital there that must have closed about ten years ago. I used to have a friend who worked in the area as a secondary teacher.

Apologies again, Loosehead.

[joko]

I always thought this phrase wasn't meant literally in the sense of new buildings etc being being built near your house, but regarded the sorts of people who want to ban everything if they don't personally agree with it, and who disagree with most things, and will find some sort of excuse to oppose it, and that it regarded their whole town or even country - from sexuality, racial issues, eccentrics, xmas lights in other roads or areas, other peoples gardens, cars, schools, new pubs or shops etc etc etc

as in "i don't mind gay people, just not round here..."

[gary baldy]

Drusilla - noooooooo! We dont want more people up here especially not southerners!
We are perfectly alright thank you very much and we dont need any investment - especially when all it will mean is southerners driving up house prices and bringing their bad driving habits and load voices.
I say build all over the south east and then, on one glorious day, we shall demolish all the bridges over the RiverTrent and cast off the south east into the sea.

[cherrybomb]

gary baldy: Cast off the S.E to join Europe, the S. to join Africa, Cornwall can be cast off to join America, the W. can join Canada and the jolly old North can be dragged on the coat tails of Scotland all the way to..... Iceland.

[spudqueen]

Drusilla - no, I live in Lancashire, just down the road from what was the largest mental hospital in the country. In it's 'hay' day it was virtually self sufficient and even had it's own railway line and station. I sometimes go for walks around the grounds but it's quite depressing to see all these once beautiful Victorian buildings going to rack and ruin and to think of all the misery that must have gone on inside them. Personally I wouldn't want to buy a house built on there, but I'm sure there's lots of people who would.