Tens of thousands of young people are arriving home in Aotearoa due to Covid-19 and fewer than normal are leaving.
According to the latest ASB regional economic scoreboard, Hawke's Bay is the second fastest growing region in the country.
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In Hawke's Bay, a new programme's being launched to help those arriving back, or those new to the community, build social connections.
Twenty-six-year-old robotics software engineer David Robinson moved back to New Zealand just as the pandemic started to emerge on the world scene.
He said moving to Hawke's Bay from Pittsburgh, in the US state of Pennsylvania, was a huge change and initially jarring.