The line chart illustrates the major motivations people expressed for leaving the urban area of a capital city for the countryside from 1990 to 2010. These decades witnessed a significant increase in people moving away.
It is clear that the main reason for relocation was the rising cost of living. There are 65,000 people left the city for this reason in 1990. And then, in the following decade, the leaver reached its peak, 85,000. We can see a gradual decrease by 5000 from 2000 to 2010.
It was a distinct phenomenon for traffic and lifestyle: both had the same population of leavers at 20,000 in 1990, the beginning of the period, much lower than that of the rising cost of living. Then, both types started to rise, with the traffic first going up by a large number to 35,000 by the year 2000, before increasing sharply by 25,000 in the decade between 2000 to 2010; the public individuals who left because of lifestyle rose steadily over the whole period, going eventually up to 40,000.
In conclusion, the main trend of people leaving from a capital city to a countryside was increasing.