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national regional reporter Jane Norman

Young families fuel rural renaissance as inland migration boosts regional towns, data shows

Morgan and Kylie Williams moved from Perth to York with their children, Flynn and Archer, in search of a better lifestyle. (Supplied)

Morgan Williams believes he struck gold when he and his young family packed up their beachfront home in Perth and moved 100 kilometres inland to York. 

Whereas it was once the discovery of actual gold deposits nearby that lured people to Western Australia's oldest inland town, now it's riches of another kind that are behind the town's population influx — good jobs, an enviable country lifestyle, and affordable housing.

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