BYRON BAY, Australia -- Once a small surfing town on Australia's east coast, nine hours' drive north of Sydney and two hours south of Brisbane, Byron Bay has always attracted controversy.
In the 1960s, there were said to be too many American surfers and their Australian counterparts. In the 1970s, there were too many hippies. In the 1990s, there were too many tourists. Today, there are too many millionaires moving in and putting a rocket under house prices. "The locals can't afford to live here anymore," some say.
