Migration of Income-Support Recipients from Non-Metropolitan NSW and SA into Sydney and Adelaide

Housing costs and lifestyle factors are persuading low-income earners to leave Sydney but most are more satisfied with a simpler country life, a new report has found. Over the past three years, researchers from the University of New South Wales and University of Adelaide have been studying the flow of income-support recipients to and from Sydney and Adelaide. What motivates low-income welfare recipients who choose to relocate from rural and regional areas to metropolitan cities? What do they trade off in the move and what do they gain? These questions are examined in the final report of this project.