# treechange

> English word · Noun · IPA /ˈtɹiːˌt͡ʃeɪnd͡ʒ/

## Definitions
1. A movement of people from cities to the countryside.
2. An act of relocating from an urban to a rural community.

## Etymology
From tree + change, modelled after seachange. According to the Australian author and demographer Bernard Salt, the word was coined by “a subeditor” in 2003 and thereafter adopted by him.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/treechange