Seachange

Quick meaning: Seachange is a noun meaning A movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas.

Meaning

A movement of people from cities to rural coastal areas.

More Meanings

1. An act of relocating from an urban to a rural coastal community.
2. Alternative form of sea change (“a profound transformation; a metamorphosis”).

Example Sentences

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.

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.)

Word Forms

• seachanges

Related Words

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