An acronyms is a wonderful thing. It saves time, separates insiders from outsiders and often create new words.<\/p>\n
Here is a extension on one of my long time favorites.<\/p>\n
A NIMBY<\/strong> is a person who favors development just N<\/u>ot I<\/u>n M<\/u>y B<\/u>ack Y<\/u>ard<\/p>\n A BANANA<\/strong> says B<\/u>uild A<\/u>bsolutely N<\/u>othing A<\/u>nywhere N<\/u>ear A<\/u>nyone<\/p>\n and now thanks to Doug W. we have RAGE<\/strong>: R<\/u>esidents A<\/u>gainst G<\/u>oddamn E<\/u>verything<\/p>\n In California this behavior is exacerbated by Proposition 13, which levies property taxes on the purchase price of homes. This allows old people to stay in their homes and be raging, nimby, bananas<\/strong><\/u>. An unintended consequence of a tax revolt but one that is stopping all progress in many neighborhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" An acronyms is a wonderful thing. It saves time, separates insiders from outsiders and often create new words. Here is a extension on one of my long time favorites. A NIMBY is a person who favors development just Not In My Back Yard A BANANA says Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anyone and now thanks […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-aC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}