Auckland's rampant house market is creating a nationwide group of middle-class refugees - sick of the overheated prices and willing to trade the big city for a better quality of life in the regions. Real estate agents around the country report an influx of Aucklanders looking to trade out and up for less money. Sarah Chadwick and family moved to Cambridge in the Waikato six weeks ago. Her husband works in Hamilton and had been commuting from Pukekohe. They left a 30-year-old, three-bedroom house in Pukekohe for a "big, four-bedroom, two-and-a-half-year-old...
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