Isolder74 wrote:Ah yes, the infamous not in my backyard problem.
Sadly near where I grew up is a town called Draper. The place is not in my back yard heaven. Because of this they still have their small town post office rather then the large one they actually need because no one can agree and where it should have been. They still need a new high school and haven't gotten one yet for the same reason. To top it off, they are now holding up the extension of the Trax(light rail) line because they can't agree on where they want the station to be.....
These are special kinds of NIMBYs, though: ones who think that when they build a house next to a pre-existing noisy/uncomfortable/unsightly spot, the spot should be removed.
Sometimes they shoot themselves in the foot, though. There was a town here which bitched about trucks driving through the town center. Then they got a brand-new ringway...and it turned that half the townspeople lived off the truckers and their vehicles, which now went around the place on their routes
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El Moose Montero wrote:Never mind that, some people build homes on active volcanoes. One of those god-awful '10 most dangerous volcanoes' programs showed a section on Kileaua, and showed a couple lamenting about how they built their dream home in Hawaii, and then the volcano erupted and it got consumed by lava. I think we were supposed to be all sympathetic for them, poor people, lost their perfect home...
Personally, I was shouting at the TV 'you built your fucking dream house around one of the most active volcanoes on the planet, you morons!', especially one known to periodically (as in so periodically that they've stopped rebuilding the roads beneath the volcano when they get swamped by lava) erupt large amounts of flowing lava. I could forgive it if it was by a volcano not active for a while, but this was just stupidity!
Not only that, but the volcano has been continuosly erupting since 1983! No sane person would even consider staying there for any length of time, yet as we have seen, people continue to build/buy homes in all kinds of stupid places with very well-known industries/hazards.
Okay...that volcano story sounds like something lifted straight out of a cartoon.
What's next? Building your dream house on top of a toxic waste dump?
JULY 20TH 1969 - The day the entire world was looking up
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - NEIL ARMSTRONG, MISSION COMMANDER, APOLLO 11
Signature dedicated to the greatest achievement of mankind.
MILDLY DERANGED PHYSICIST does not mind BREAKING the SOUND BARRIER, because it is INSURED. - Simon_Jester considering the problems of hypersonic flight for Team L.A.M.E.
PeZook wrote:Okay...that volcano story sounds like something lifted straight out of a cartoon.
What's next? Building your dream house on top of a toxic waste dump?
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PeZook wrote:Okay...that volcano story sounds like something lifted straight out of a cartoon.
What's next? Building your dream house on top of a toxic waste dump?
In Australia, it's very common for people to build houses in massive bushfire areas, like that near Sydney, and have them destroyed. And then go on TV and say OH MY GOD THE TRAGEDY A BUSHFIRE IN BUSHFIRE CORRIDOR!
Maybe its just because I've given up on reading the letters to the editor in my local paper, but it seems like people around here are remarkably non bitchy on this subject. Within 2 miles of my house is the 30 acre cattle farm I live on (and my family has owned for 120 years), another 30 acre farm my aunt and uncle live on, another 80 acre farm we own that contains the feed lot, a Weyerhauser box plant that sees constant semi and train traffic, and a mushroom farm that supplies a large amount of the Pacific Northwest. Oh, and every military branch except the Marines overfly the area constantly and its close enough to Fort Lewis that artillery noise and concussion is quite noticeable, and its on the southern approach to Sea Tac and relatively near to the Olympia airport.
And yet, for all that, people don't seem to bitch much. Hell, our neighbors seem to like being able to throw their grass clippings over the fence.
Stark wrote:In Australia, it's very common for people to build houses in massive bushfire areas, like that near Sydney, and have them destroyed. And then go on TV and say OH MY GOD THE TRAGEDY A BUSHFIRE IN BUSHFIRE CORRIDOR!
What I love about those people is they also hve gardens full of eucalyptus trees and native vegetation. All so that they can live in a secluded 'bush' house. Then they complain when the cfs can't stop their house burning because it is surrounded by highly flammable trees (eucalypts want to be burned)
