Has COVID really caused an exodus from our cities? In fact, moving to the regions is nothing new
Internal migration resulted in a net loss of 11,200 people from Australia’s capital cities in the September quarter of 2020, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics data released this month. At the same time, some regional areas experienced significant growth in house prices as demand for properties increased. So this has raised the questions: are we starting to see an exodus from our cities, and is this related to the COVID-19 pandemic? To work out what is happening there are a few important things to consider. In Australia we move a lot The first thing to keep in mind is that Austr...