prinnie24

When I first decided to move to Nimbin nearly 4 years ago, I couldn't wait !! I was so excited as I had heard it was an amazing place filled with great people. I was wrong. The people here are horrid and I cannot wait to get the hell out of here.
I remember during the first few months of settling in I was in awe of the place, I loved where I am living and how peaceful it is, how beautiful my surroundings were and still are. The town itself feels very unwelcoming, dirty and I feel unsafe and now only resort to going into town if its absolutely necessary, i.e. need milk. The people of Nimbin are very opinionated and only deem you a resident if you have been here approx 20 years. The town is also quite expensive, and the boys in the alley constantly asking you if you would like to buy gets rather annoying when they have already asked you 5 minutes ago.
I live a few minutes from town on a beautiful property, hidden away from the main road into town, this hasn't stopped vandals, whilst away visiting family on the Gold Coast, I return home to find smashed windows on my house, front door unlocked and left wide open. Thank fully nothing sentimental was taken. Another incident which left me feeling extremely unsafe in my own home was when I was traveling back from Lismore after doing my weekly grocery shopping, and just as I entered Nimbin I looked in my rearview mirror to a woman in a silver sedan who also had her children and another older woman in the car, flashing her lights, honking her horn, accelerating and breaking to the rear of my car whilst hurling abuse out the window, this continued through town, she kept yelling out 'pull over (C word)!', i then slowed down with one of my hands out the window aswell as saying 'what did I do?', she continued to yell abuse requesting me to stop, I was not going to stop! I was shaking and scared to death! She continued to follow me until I turned off onto my driveway where she sat in her car for a few minutes, I drove quickly to my front door, locked it and rang the police who took 4 hours to respond. I filed a police report, somehow the officer knew exactly who it was and confronted her days later, apparently I breaked too early coming into town. She was given a warning.
I have also witnessed on a facebook group called 'Nimbin Hookups' a woman being forced to leave this town as she was verbally abused via the facebook group and her business in town was attacked on numerous occasions.
I am now 4 months pregnant with my first and eager to get out of this place as soon as possible, I do not want my daughter growing up here !! Definitely not a place for children to grow up. Have heard horrid things about the schools here too.
Beautiful surroundings ! It is just such a shame about Nimbin and it's people. Such a spoiler.