{"id":71654,"date":"2025-05-09T09:19:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-09T00:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/09\/leaving-new-zealand-record-departure-numbers"},"modified":"2025-05-09T09:19:34","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T00:19:34","slug":"hollowing-out-new-zealand-grapples-with-an-uncertain-future-as-record-numbers-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=71654","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Hollowing out\u2019: New Zealand grapples with an uncertain future as record numbers leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Surge of departures \u2013 mostly fleeing a weak economy &#8211; fuels concern over the longer-term impact on the country as some small towns scramble for survival<\/p>\n<p>She considers herself a diehard South Island girl, but Harriet Baker, 33, won\u2019t be raising her children in the city where she\u2019s spent most of her life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we bought our house I said, \u2018You\u2019ll be taking me out of here in a casket,\u201d she says, of the Dunedin home she and husband Cameron Baker, 33, sold last month.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/may\/09\/leaving-new-zealand-record-departure-numbers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surge of departures \u2013 mostly fleeing a weak economy &#8211; fuels concern over the longer-term impact on the country as some small towns scramble for survivalShe considers herself a diehard South Island girl, but Harriet Baker, 33, won\u2019t be raising her child&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,56,706,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-new-zealand","category-population","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71654"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71673,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71654\/revisions\/71673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}