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SUMMARY - back to the land 2.0

] Robert Mangelsdorf @westender.com - says young vancouverites are leaving the city for country life and he has the numbers to proove it.

] Vancouver's young people are on the move and leaving the city, many of them for their own slice of rural bliss.
] According to BC Stats, Vancouver has seen young people aged 20 to 30 leave the city in recent years, despite the overall population growing.
] For Todd Serious, lead singer of punk rock band The Rebel Spell, the ridiculous cost of living in Vancouver is what prompted him to leave the city behind and move to the tiny town of Lillooet.
] According to the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver's year-end stats, the average price for a detached home in the City of Vancouver topped $1 million in 2014.
] "There's a reconfiguration going on. People are feeling ground down by the city, and they're starting to realize there's more out there. Life is a lot less competitive here."
] In her book, Back To the Land: The Enduring Dream of Self-Sufficiency, Brown argues the movement began as early as the 19th century as city dwellers sought an escape from the grind of city life.
] A bookseller living in Vancouver, her and her partner began exploring the possibility of leaving the city for an idyllic life in the middle of nowhere almost 10 years ago.

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