BYRON BAY has copped a massive dose of stick from a freelance write for real estate website domain.com.au.
Writer Stephen Lacey dumped loads on the Bay in a recent article.
“Byron is the mother lode of bad ideas. And by bad ideas I mean every kooky, wacky, unsubstantiated branch of pseudo-science mumbo jumbo concocted,” Lacey said, in an article titled Why you couldn’t pay me to move to Byron Bay.
“I’m afraid I’m just way too cynical to ever up-stumps from Sydney’s inner city to live in a place where people believe that amethyst crystals can neutralise your negative state of mind, or that reiki will rid your body of an urge to vote for the Liberal-National Coalition.”
Lacey continues his attack with “Before falling for all the shamanic earth medicine and tantric alchemy malarky, consider this: according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Byron local government area has an unemployment rate of more than 8 per cent, and a non-domestic violence rate that is almost twice the NSW average. Seems there must be a blow-back from the “chilled-out vibe” when the mushrooms stop working.
“Got kids? Better not put them in the local preschool unless you want them coming home looking like a walking petri dish. The area has the lowest immunisation rates in Australia, and in some parts, nearly one-third of all five-year-olds are not fully immunised.”
Lacey also complains about the high rainfall, the lack of jobs, the price of real estate and Schoolies.
So lucky our magic place repels people like Mr Stephen Lacey. Hope he finds his version of happiness and keeps well away lest he accidentally discover the amazing, extraordinary and wonderful place that Byron Bay is in truth… then our culture would be duminished stick with Miami and it spinoffs sir. Ps do not come to the spoonbending workshop Mr Lacey, it will shatter your delusions.
Please stay in Sydney. You aren’t wanted here. Stay down in the inner west with the avocalatte set. Leave us alone to make our mocktails in jars. Ta. Xxx
Hahahahahahaha. That’s Byron!
Thank goodness we have too much rain, a lack of jobs and high real estate prices; thank goodness the writer doesn’t like Byron, because I suspect with so much negativity he simply wouldn’t fit in here!
I adore our diverse, wonderful, whacky, love, peace and brown rice community.
Maybe Stephen Lacey just needs a dose of Mr Beautiful to see the light!