Well then you don't live here anymore and evidently you never will. In which case, why should anyone who does live here ever take instruction from you, who does not, on how to live our lives?
If someone else who doesn't live where you do and wouldn't have to face the consequences prescribed tough medicine with serious side effects for your city, and those side effects could even prove fatal, would you subject yourself and your city to their ministrations? What do you say, Doc?
If you’re choosing to live in such a city, it is likely because you have some vested interest you are trying to protect, and thus makes you a biased opinion. NIMBYism.
You chose to live in YOUR city. By your logic, you also have some vested interest to protect. Evidently, thus makes your opinion biased as well. It's NIMBYism all around!