It's a term used to describe people who find everything a "real nuisance". There are NIMBYs in my town who spent months protesting sidewalks being built in a new residential subdivision.
It's kind of inherently a caricature.
Transit? It’s a city. Don’t live there if you don’t want people moving around nearby.
And the ones protesting every single bit of housing development on grounds it mighty change their neighborhood? Yeah, you don’t have the eternal right to keep things exactly as they were the day you moved in.
> And the ones protesting every single bit of housing development on grounds it mighty change their neighborhood?
If they constitute an actual majority of residents, it's their right to dictate the development of the neighborhood as they see fit.
> Yeah, you don’t have the eternal right to keep things exactly as they were the day you moved in.
This is exactly the kind of hyperbolic dismissiveness that characterizes all of these arguments.