Pandemic pushes city slickers to Queensland country towns
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By Caitlyn Larkin
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Seeing cities in lockdown was the push Jancine and Steve Harrison needed to pack up and move to Kalbar – a regional Queensland town, population about 2000.
“When the Brisbane lockdowns happened, I just worked from home so it didn’t affect me much, but COVID-19 was definitely the push for us to move,” Ms Harrison said.
New Kalbar residents Jancine and Steve Harrison.
“We were looking at what was happening in other cities, with constant lockdowns, and we didn’t want to get caught up in it all so we just thought no, we love the country, so let’s move out there.