Aussies exodus explodes from one city

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In the nation’s collective consciousness, there is the narrative that there is a city experiencing a nation-beating exodus, where outflows of its residents are on the road to being biblical in their scale.

That city is Melbourne.

In the years since the pandemic began, the perception of the bayside city has changed dramatically, from one of the fastest-growing economies in the nation to a city that faced the most severe challenges of any in the nation during lockdown.

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