treechange

noun /ˈtɹiːˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/

1. A movement of people from cities to the countryside.

   uncountable

   Treechange refers to the trend for baby boomers to seek out lifestyle property in country towns usually within a two–three hour drive of a capital city. 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.

2. An act of relocating from an urban to a rural community.

   countable

Where it comes from

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.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry treechange (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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