Yes, at least here the rural areas were growing by 1% in the 70s and 80s, while big cities like Vienna lost about 0.5% each year.
Now it's the opposite: Vienna grows 1.5% each year and the rural areas are stagnating or losing population.
But it seems only the foreigners want to live in Vienna these days, while (young) Austrians only go there to study and then go either back home to their rural areas or move to smaller cities or to Germany or somewhere else. Austrian Citizens are actually moving OUT of Vienna, not in there.
At least it's not attractive for me to live there, because I'd rather live in a rural mountainous area than in a 2 million city.
This trend is very interesting, as it's the opposite of that observed in Eastern Europe (and not only there, of course).
