treechange

Meaning

Noun

A movement of people from cities to the countryside.
An act of relocating from an urban to a rural community.

Origin

From tree + change, modelled after seachange. According to the Australian author and demographer Bernard Salt, the word was coined by “a subeditor” in 2003 and thereafter adopted by him.

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