The core population trend which has seen large numbers of people leave the biggest cities and move to smaller cities or to regional areas has been happening for many years.

The official population data shows that Sydney has been losing population to other parts of Australia for the past 10 years and Melbourne has been losing to internal migration for the past five or six years.

The Covid lockdown period made this more visible and gave it extra momentum, but it certainly wasn’t the driving factor.

Fundamentally this big migration of population has been caused by the pursuit of lifestyle and affordability, enabled by technology – which means, the ability to work remotely.

Australians have been relocating in big numbers and the most popular destinations have been Queensland and Western Australia, with Queensland No.1 by a big margin.

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