Fair nuff. Yeah, Byron isn't really a "city"... More a beach town where rich faux-hippies now live (it was originally a whaling settlement, then a timber town, then a holiday shack destination. Then it became "trendy" AF), but it is also surrounded by like 50 other towns of varying size (Mullum - bigger. Bangalow - smaller. Federal - much, much smaller), including Nimbin, some 50+km away, which used to be bigger, but is now little more than a large "village" full of hippies and druggies...
It's pretty much a "no go zone", for polite society. Like Skid Row, but in the rural hinterland, and heavily touristed by internationals who think it sounds cool/go there to buy weed and harder drugs...
All of which could collectively be considered "Byron", if one doesn't know better rolls eyes.
The airport, which was renamed "Byron Bay", to appeal to international tourists, is actually in Ballina, which I mentioned earlier, and which is the largest actual... "City", of sorts. That's where you go, if you live in Byron, but you need to go to, say, a big box store, or a decent mechanic, or whatever... Or Mullum, I suppose.
Byron itself doesn't have any of that.
I don't know how I didn't say this before, but Byron and Nimbin take their original calling literally from Woodstock. That is literally how they came to be what they are today, by hosting "gatherings" aping Woodstock. Literally. Especially Nimbin.
See also Newport, and Fairport. Byron is what you get if you take Newport or Woodstock, and plonk it in Australia, then leave it to, eh, ferment for 50-odd years...
Fair nuff. Yeah, Byron isn't really a "city"... More a beach town where rich faux-hippies now live (it was originally a whaling settlement, then a timber town, then a holiday shack destination. Then it became "trendy" AF), but it is also surrounded by like 50 other towns of varying size (Mullum - bigger. Bangalow - smaller. Federal - much, much smaller), including Nimbin, some 50+km away, which used to be bigger, but is now little more than a large "village" full of hippies and druggies... It's pretty much a "no go zone", for polite society. Like Skid Row, but in the rural hinterland, and heavily touristed by internationals who think it sounds cool/go there to buy weed and harder drugs...
All of which could collectively be considered "Byron", if one doesn't know better rolls eyes.
The airport, which was renamed "Byron Bay", to appeal to international tourists, is actually in Ballina, which I mentioned earlier, and which is the largest actual... "City", of sorts. That's where you go, if you live in Byron, but you need to go to, say, a big box store, or a decent mechanic, or whatever... Or Mullum, I suppose.
Byron itself doesn't have any of that.
I don't know how I didn't say this before, but Byron and Nimbin take their original calling literally from Woodstock. That is literally how they came to be what they are today, by hosting "gatherings" aping Woodstock. Literally. Especially Nimbin.
See also Newport, and Fairport. Byron is what you get if you take Newport or Woodstock, and plonk it in Australia, then leave it to, eh, ferment for 50-odd years...