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A 27-year-old says his decision to move from Whangārei to Melbourne was "painfully easy" as it meant a decreased cost of living and massively increased wages.
Far more Kiwis are leaving the country than coming back with the latest Stats NZ data showing nearly 73,000 New Zealanders left the country in the past year, while only 26,000 returned.
Young Kiwis aged 18 to 30 made up 38 percent of those departures, mostly heading across the Tasman.
One of them was
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