I have three points. Perfectly natural can be bad. It's natural to want free stuff, but it's a bad impulse. Maybe it's an impulse we should attempt to curb. Some people interpret "natural" as permissible. Second, NIMBYs are resistant to change, but we should make a finer cut, here. You like the turtle of the ledge with the other knick-knacks. The NIMBY attitude is the perceived right to control your turtle on your ledge, and to be able to generally regulate knick-knacks on other people's ledges. Third, it's not always change that NIMBYs are resistant to. As they seek more control over their NHs, they support even more regulation of private property, making it even harder to maintain NH businesses. For example, I lived in a NH which fought to shut down a theater that was showing adult movies. They succeeded in shutting down the adult movies and this resulted in the theater closing and never showing another movie. They shut down the theater. You also know how hard it is to operate a business on these old Main streets. If they really hated changes, they would support these businesses better and they wouldn't need to close. So NIMBY resistance to change is very selective. It always has been.
I have three points. Perfectly natural can be bad. It's natural to want free stuff, but it's a bad impulse. Maybe it's an impulse we should attempt to curb. Some people interpret "natural" as permissible. Second, NIMBYs are resistant to change, but we should make a finer cut, here. You like the turtle of the ledge with the other knick-knacks. The NIMBY attitude is the perceived right to control your turtle on your ledge, and to be able to generally regulate knick-knacks on other people's ledges. Third, it's not always change that NIMBYs are resistant to. As they seek more control over their NHs, they support even more regulation of private property, making it even harder to maintain NH businesses. For example, I lived in a NH which fought to shut down a theater that was showing adult movies. They succeeded in shutting down the adult movies and this resulted in the theater closing and never showing another movie. They shut down the theater. You also know how hard it is to operate a business on these old Main streets. If they really hated changes, they would support these businesses better and they wouldn't need to close. So NIMBY resistance to change is very selective. It always has been.