Yes yes I know that. Trust me, I've been. Many, many times.
There's still hippies like this, there. They're just not camping out in the park, so much...
But honestly, she could be in Lennox, or in Nimbin, or in Mullum. I don't know the details. The media says "Byron", and besides, that's the most recognizable of those places, for an international/mixed audience...
So I agree with you, yes, but I don't really think that's the point, here.
And nah, Melbourne is the Seattle of Australia, politics-wise. Byron is rural Northern California, if anything... But I don't know enough about NoCal to suggest an exact town...
Of the places in the US I've been, it most resembles Sausalito (California), or, much more so, Boulder in Colorado. It's inland, but... It most closely resembles what you are getting at, there. Except, unlike Byron, Boulder actually has a massive (legitimate) student population, which... Changes the dynamic slightly.
Unironically, yes, that does sound quite similar...
Sierra Nevada? The brewing co that produces the beer that tastes like ash (Bigfoot), right? That was the first "legal" beer I drank on my 18th, I think... At my cousin's goading. God it was rank, lol...
But anyway, yes, yes and yes. Byron has a whole bunch of craft breweries, too. Stone & Wood is probably the most famous, though there's The Byron Bay Brewery, as well, amongst others. Also Byron Bay cookies rolls eyes...
Though, the distinction is... Byron is tiny. Less than 10k people. And no university (trade school, yes, but the biggest "tertiary provider" is a private music "college"). How big is Chico?
Byron does have a... Surrounding population of like 35-40K, including Mullumbimby, which is, I think, the "largest town in NSW" (ergo, town vs city. In Aus, pretty much anything over 25/30K is a "city")....
Also Ballina is not that far away, which is bigger again. But yeah...
Other than that, yeah, sounds like you're pretty much on the money, lol.
Bear in mind that a major difference is that you guys have more than ten times our total population (California alone has twice the pop of Aus), and even more than ten times the number of "colleges", so... That's why Byron doesn't have one, yet, I guess.
Instead of the "state university system", we just have a smaller number of massive universities, with multiple campuses across multiple cities and towns, which is, again, a major difference...
I think SCU in Lismore is probably the nearest Uni to Byron, and yes, that is MOST DEFINITELY a party Uni, lol... Also SCU on the Gold Coast, but less so...
Yes Bigfoot is a beer of theirs. I like it though I don't drink it often since I have many other local options where I live (I don't live in CA; closer to Seattle though I don't live there either). Their Pale Ale is their most popular beer, which I think is a very good reference beer for the style.
Chico is 100k-ish, but there's not much population around that area outside of the city. That's not always true of cities and their surrounding areas in the US but happens to be true there. Didn't feel like a 100k city when I visited it though. Either that's because I never tried to go the downtown area or because the way the city is constructed.
Beyond that NorCal's big. Probably other cities that fit the bill. I don't really have a city I consider "canonical" for NorCal because the coast is different from inland is different from mountains.
Yes yes I know that. Trust me, I've been. Many, many times.
There's still hippies like this, there. They're just not camping out in the park, so much...
But honestly, she could be in Lennox, or in Nimbin, or in Mullum. I don't know the details. The media says "Byron", and besides, that's the most recognizable of those places, for an international/mixed audience...
So I agree with you, yes, but I don't really think that's the point, here.
And nah, Melbourne is the Seattle of Australia, politics-wise. Byron is rural Northern California, if anything... But I don't know enough about NoCal to suggest an exact town...
Of the places in the US I've been, it most resembles Sausalito (California), or, much more so, Boulder in Colorado. It's inland, but... It most closely resembles what you are getting at, there. Except, unlike Byron, Boulder actually has a massive (legitimate) student population, which... Changes the dynamic slightly.
Chico? Home of Chico State University, which is known as the "party school" of the California State University system.
Also home of the Sierra Nevada Brewing Company, which is one of the largest breweries in the US.
Unironically, yes, that does sound quite similar...
Sierra Nevada? The brewing co that produces the beer that tastes like ash (Bigfoot), right? That was the first "legal" beer I drank on my 18th, I think... At my cousin's goading. God it was rank, lol...
But anyway, yes, yes and yes. Byron has a whole bunch of craft breweries, too. Stone & Wood is probably the most famous, though there's The Byron Bay Brewery, as well, amongst others. Also Byron Bay cookies rolls eyes...
Though, the distinction is... Byron is tiny. Less than 10k people. And no university (trade school, yes, but the biggest "tertiary provider" is a private music "college"). How big is Chico?
Byron does have a... Surrounding population of like 35-40K, including Mullumbimby, which is, I think, the "largest town in NSW" (ergo, town vs city. In Aus, pretty much anything over 25/30K is a "city")....
Also Ballina is not that far away, which is bigger again. But yeah...
Other than that, yeah, sounds like you're pretty much on the money, lol.
Bear in mind that a major difference is that you guys have more than ten times our total population (California alone has twice the pop of Aus), and even more than ten times the number of "colleges", so... That's why Byron doesn't have one, yet, I guess.
Instead of the "state university system", we just have a smaller number of massive universities, with multiple campuses across multiple cities and towns, which is, again, a major difference...
I think SCU in Lismore is probably the nearest Uni to Byron, and yes, that is MOST DEFINITELY a party Uni, lol... Also SCU on the Gold Coast, but less so...
Yes Bigfoot is a beer of theirs. I like it though I don't drink it often since I have many other local options where I live (I don't live in CA; closer to Seattle though I don't live there either). Their Pale Ale is their most popular beer, which I think is a very good reference beer for the style.
Chico is 100k-ish, but there's not much population around that area outside of the city. That's not always true of cities and their surrounding areas in the US but happens to be true there. Didn't feel like a 100k city when I visited it though. Either that's because I never tried to go the downtown area or because the way the city is constructed.
Beyond that NorCal's big. Probably other cities that fit the bill. I don't really have a city I consider "canonical" for NorCal because the coast is different from inland is different from mountains.