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Sezen Bakan

Regional towns set for ‘growing pains’ as young people abandon cities

The big move from cities to regional Australia has heaped pressure on already strained local infrastructure. Photo: TND/Getty

Young people are trading city lights for starry night skies as exorbitant property prices and more working from home encourage a move to regional areas.

In the year to March, millennials (24- to 40-year-olds) and Gen X (40- to 56-year-olds) accounted for the largest proportion of movers to the highest-growth regional areas, a new CBA and Regional Australia Institute report shows.

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