Kate Hawkesby: Don't be surprised if more people join the stats ditching cities for the country

Early Edition with Ryan Bridge · Oct 25, 2022 · 2m

Getting to live across both city and country gives me good insight into what’s happening in both places.

I can tell you first hand, rural living is where it’s at. And now stats back that up.

We’re leaving the cities. In the year to June this year, Auckland lost almost 9,000 people. A lot went overseas; it looks like the rest went North or into the regions - and I’m not surprised.

Our cities are a shambles, Auckland in particular is just an assault of congestion, crime and cones, if you had the option to work remote or from home – you’d be mad not to take it.

Suburb-wise it was downtown…