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.
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