The graph illustrates the main motivations people expressed for relocating to the countryside from the city between 1990 and 2010 which are the rising cost of living, traffic and lifestyle.
Overall, the number of people moving to rural areas rose during the given period. Cost of living was the main reason for relocation while traffic flow and the way of living motives increased gradually between 1990 and 2010.
According to the graph, living expenses were always considered the most common motif among the population during the 20-year period. The individuals leaving the city for the countryside grew steadily to a peak of almost 85,000 in 2000. Although this trend slightly decreased by the year 2000 with a drop of nearly 5,000.
With regards to the other two reasons both had the same number of city leavers at the start of the period (20,000). These tendencies growth gradually until the year 2000 when traffic went up rapidly hitting a high of 60,000 leavers in 2010. In comparison lifestyle leavers rose during the last decade of the given period but steadily reaching about 40,000 the final year.