A person who makes a dramatic change in their lifestyle, especially by moving from the city to a seaside or country area.
she's a seachanger from Melbourne who moved north to live on a commune
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It's a classic outer-urban, high-growth electorate, but it also has the characteristic Queensland demographics of sea changers, retirees, and farmers, to balance out this group.
He says downshifting is not about the seachangers, because it does not include retirees or those who have been retrenched.
I asked if the influx of seachangers may mask the poverty of long term residents.
Outside the high income inner suburban electorates in which their main support lies, and a few sea-changer electorates outside the urban area, the party showed a pretty poor performance overall.
This part of the country was transformed in the 1990s when it started to attract sea-changers.
"Sea changers" aren't just going to the Australian coast in search of a better lifestyle; they're heading west.
Jennifer is a seachanger who moved to the Northern Rivers to live on a commune and pursue her passion for filmmaking.
The migration to the coast is being led by the baby boomers and other seachangers who are either retiring or deciding to adopt a more relaxed beach lifestyle.
This sort of party could appeal to sea changers and people in the larger regional centres, as well as traditional rural voters.
Many of the areas being targeted by sea changers do not have sufficient embedded infrastructure such as roads, water mains, sewerage and power, to cope with the growth in demand.