young people from regional areas face a big stigma if they don't move to the city
- Written by Candice Boyd, ARC DECRA Fellow in Human Geography, The University of Melbourne
Dave Hunt/AAPYoung people moving to the city has been a serious dilemma for regional Australian communities for decades.
Between 2011 and 2016, about 180,000 regional Australians between 20 and 35 years old moved to capital cities, although around 30% of them eventually returned to a regional area.
The reasons for what researchers term “youth...
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