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Not all objections to development is pure nimbyism.
Do we need to keep building in the SE if there is spare housing elsewhere? Maybe relocate people and some industry to where there is spare resource? In the past people moved all around the world to find work, now they don't want to move to another part of the same country.
It is true we don't pay public servants enough and we have also taken away the perks that encouraged people to devote their lives to the job (e.g. great pensions, job security).
But we can't go back, only forward from where we are.