Meaning of seachange | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas.
   Australia, uncountable
2. An act of relocating from an urban to a rural coastal community.
   Australia, countable

Examples

“The seachange shift was initiated by retirees from the late 1960s although it did acquire⟳ a spiritual status when embraced by the boomers from 2001 onwards. […] The drivers of treechange and seachange are the same: people wanting a simpler life in a pleasant town with all the amenities not too far from their interests in the city.”

“For example, the ‘seachange’ and ‘treechange’ movements have⟳ seen transitions in rural and regional communities, with the influx of wealthy city-dwellers increasing the price of housing and demanding the provision of particular services and facilities[…].”

“This is supported by consultant reports she found online, whose interpretations of ABS data point⟳ to the emergence of seachange and treechange towns that have⟳ increasing demand⟳ for services. (Seachange and treechange are terms used to describe⟳ people moving out of cities to coastal or rural areas.)”

“Surrey […] was negotiating with his wife to move⟳ the family (two teenaged girls, reluctant to leave⟳ their high school friends) to Tathra and a new house, perhaps with a view⟳ of the sea. The trick⟳ was going to be maintaining the loyalty of his longstanding if slow-paying rural clients, when he planned to spend⟳ most of his time on the coast, away from the extremes of the Goulburn climate ('Either too cold, too hot, too dry, too windy, or too wet⟳,' he was wont to say⟳). There had proved to be lots of minor crime on the coast, which augured well for the seachange.”

“It is interesting to watch⟳ how the most unpromising subject seems to warm and assimilate with his [John Randolph of Roanoke's] genius. Everything undergoes a seachange.”

“New economic, social and international pressures were threatening a seachange in the language of politics, with more activism sought from government than in the laissez-faire nineteenth century.”

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