Not wanting to have to deal with unpleasant or distasteful things near them.
Their vote against measures to help refugees has been perceived by the socially conscious margin of society as a typically nimby attitude.
[…] to be obvious exaggerations of the threats, but rather focused on critiquing the means employed—i.e., the various enforcement techniques that adversely affected innocent bystanders—and in a very nimby (not in my back yard) sort of way. 2010, Timothy J. Dunn, Blockading the Border and Human Rights, page 32:
(derogatory, usually) Someone who objects to the building of an undesirable structure in their neighborhood, especially in public policy debate.
Of course, in China everything is determined by the state. So many times, when I asked how China had managed to build this network so quickly, I was told that it was because the government had backed it. And, of course, there are fewer Nimbys in an authoritarian state. 2025 April 16, Christian Wolmar, “Hugely impressed by China's high-speed rail network”, in RAIL, number 1033, page 42:
politically correct green (as in vegetation) nimbies (may object to nuclear power plants, polluting factories, etc.)
fiscally conservative green (as in money) nimbies (may object to the building of anything which may decrease preexisting property values)
socially conservative brown (as in shirts) nimbies (may object to the building of jails, prisons, housing for ex-convicts, drinking or adult entertainment establishments)