What is going on in Byron Bay? The road conditions are atrocious. I have travelled all around Australia and most of the roads in and around Byron Bay are shocking. They appear to not even fill in the enormous pot holes. Bloody disgrace. Where is all the money going from normal resources as every other town has plus the added bonus of all the tourist dollars that come into the town. The money is going somewhere but obviously not on the roads. A big negative for me and would not visit again. But just my opinion.
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(Picture of my beloved Molly (2003 - 2016) who loved the travels as much as I do. RIP old girl. Gone but never forgotten).
I have taken this as a copy from an article on Facebook.
I have not been to Byron Bay for thirty odd years so I need to point out that these are not necessarily my personal views.
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Known as Australia's easternmost point, Byron Bay is also the country's biggest dickhead magnet. Every type of ****wit under the sun gravitates to Byron: smelly hippies spilling out of their housevans, tattooed surfers fighting each other for territory, barefoot bogans fighting each other for fun, cashed-up boomers flittering between overpriced organic cafes and bull**** galleries, and overseas millionaires buying up the entire town for holiday homes. Its the sort of place that corporate shills on their second divorce fantasise about moving to so they can open a yoga retreat and root a dreadlocked barista on the beach. Byron Bay is Disneyland for dropouts, the Gold Coast for people who prefer their Meter Maids to have hairy pits.
Overrun by tourists and littered with their half-eaten takeaways and used condoms, the only people who actually live in Byron Bay are pretentious trustafarians who turned up for Splendour in the Grass and forgot to **** off home after the mushies wore off. These private school plastic hippies use their old mans money to live the Byron dream, subsidising their supposed free spirit lifestyle which actually consists of wearing cheap jewellery they bought in Bali while complaining about other fake hippies, catching herpes from German backpackers and generally doing large amounts of serious **** all. Byron Bay gained national notoriety for rejecting fast food giants McDonalds and KFC under the pretence that junk food didnt fit with the Byron lifestyle - maybe if Maccas started serving kombucha and lentils and giving away hacky sacks in their Happy Meals it might have got the Byron seal of approval.
Byron Bay is known for its nightlife, which consists of drunken drongos and schoolies smashing each others teeth out and projectile vomiting at passersby. Its also a primo spot for seeing whales, which is why Byronites were still slaughtering humpbacks as recently as the 1960s. A popular feature is the Cape Byron Lighthouse, which serves the vital purpose of warning passing seafarers away from the complete wankeropolis of Byron Bay. We suggest you heed its warning.
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What is going on in Byron Bay? The road conditions are atrocious. I have travelled all around Australia and most of the roads in and around Byron Bay are shocking. They appear to not even fill in the enormous pot holes. Bloody disgrace. Where is all the money going from normal resources as every other town has plus the added bonus of all the tourist dollars that come into the town. The money is going somewhere but obviously not on the roads. A big negative for me and would not visit again. But just my opinion.
We drove into Byron Bay a few months ago and the roads are as you described them. The councilors should hang their heads in shame for getting paid for a job that they do not do.
By the look of most of the people their they would not get too much money out of them.
