treechange
(countable) An act of relocating from an urban to a rural community.
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(countable) An act of relocating from an urban to a rural community.
For example, the ‘seachange’ and ‘treechange’ movements have seen transitions in rural and regional communities, with the influx of wealthy city-dwellers increasing the price of housing and demanding the provision of particular services …
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(uncountable) A movement of people from cities to the countryside.
Treechange refers to the trend for baby boomers to seek out lifestyle property in country towns usually within a two–three hour drive of a capital city. The drivers of treechange and seachange are the same: people wanting a simpler life …
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Australian slang for someone who abandons city life to relocate to a rural or semi-rural area, typically seeking a slower pace, nature, and lower property prices. The treechanger is the bush-dwelling counterpart to the seachanger, who moves to the coast. The term became particularly loaded during the remote-work boom of the early 2020s, when thousands of Australians made the leap from inner suburbs to regional towns, sparking debates about urban flight and rural gentrification.
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