The intense lights of Hollywood are like a beacon to dreamers all around the world. Yearly, an increasing number of folks relocate to Los Angeles in hopes of creating it massive within the leisure trade. Loads of profitable performers put down roots within the metropolis, however generally, they resolve to pursue a extra peaceable life someplace distant.
Listed below are 27 celebs who moved out of LA (and why):
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Ariel Winter and her boyfriend, Luke Benward, moved out of Los Angeles after Modern Family completed filming its last season in 2020. She informed People, “I did not go away the trade. I simply left the town of LA. It holds some not-great reminiscences for me, and I am younger and by no means lived anyplace else, and thought, ‘Why not?’ Should you’re not on a community present that shoots there, you do not actually must be there, and if I get a community present, I can simply return.”
She additionally informed the podcast Quitters, “A part of the rationale I all the time hated LA is as a result of I’ve been adopted by paparazzi for a really lengthy portion of my life. And I actually, actually dislike having my area invaded. I do not like feeling watched. I’ve all the time simply wished to reside a really, very regular life, simply have a standard existence.”
Ariel reportedly purchased a home in Faculty Grove, Tennessee, which is about 34 miles from Nashville. Luke grew up close by in Franklin.
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The 12 months after her divorce from Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson packed her luggage for New York Metropolis, taking The Kelly Clarkson Present along with her. She informed USA Today, “I will be actual sincere: I assumed I used to be making a horrible determination. I knew I wanted a contemporary begin and could not be in LA. I actually wished to be in Montana, however you possibly can’t actually do a present from there fairly but. So I used to be like, ‘The one different possibility would most likely be New York.'”
Having lived within the metropolis for a number of weeks, she had no regrets, including, “I genuinely like it, and I really like that my youngsters like it.”
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In 2024, Eva Longoria informed Marie Claire that she and her household have been splitting their time between Spain [where she often works] and Mexico [where her husband, José Bastón, is from] for the previous few years. She mentioned, “I had my complete grownup life right here [in LA]. However even earlier than [the pandemic], it was altering. The vibe was totally different. After which COVID occurred, and it pushed it over the sting. Whether or not it is the homelessness or the taxes, not that I need to shit on California — it simply seems like this chapter in my life is completed now…I am privileged. I get to flee and go someplace. Most People aren’t so fortunate. They are going to be caught on this dystopian nation, and my nervousness and unhappiness is for them.”
Her feedback led to on-line hypothesis that she’d moved out of the US due to the 2024 election. So, to set the document straight, Eva referred to as into her pal Ana Navarro’s podcast The View: Behind the Table. She requested Ana, “Will you please allow them to know I did not transfer out of Spain, I imply the USA, due to Trump?”
Then, Eva added, “I have been in Europe working for nearly three years. By the best way, the article says that. Folks simply grabbed some clickbait stuff to be divisive, which makes me so unhappy, you realize. All the pieces you say is simply meant to be divisive once we cannot be that means proper now…I did not go away due to the political atmosphere. I left as a result of my work took me there.”
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Within the Season 2 premiere episode of The Family Stallone, Sylvester Stallone informed his three daughters, “After lengthy, laborious consideration, your mom [Jennifer Flavin] and I’ve determined, time to maneuver on and go away the state of California completely, and we’ll Florida.” In a confessional, he added, “We have now lots of roots in California, so it isn’t a straightforward transition to Florida. However, Jennifer actually had her coronary heart set on it. I gave in.”
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Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling reportedly relocated to Santa Barbara, a bit of beneath two hours from LA. An insider informed People, “For them, a very powerful job is their ladies. All the pieces else comes second. And their ladies are thriving. They left LA to reside a bit additional north, away from Hollywood. They did not need the women to develop up round different superstar youngsters. Eva and Ryan love their life. It is admirable how they have been capable of create steadiness and bounds. They care a lot about their marriage and simply need their ladies to reside a cheerful life.”
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Rachel McAdams reportedly lives within the Southern US along with her companion Jamie Linden and their two kids. Taking breaks from appearing “actually helped [her] really feel empowered.” In 2023, she informed Bustle, “It helped me really feel like I used to be taking again some management. And I believe it type of allowed me to return in from a unique doorway.”
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Throughout COVID-19, Jesse Eisenberg, his spouse Anna Stout, and their son relocated to Bloomington, Indiana, in order that he and Anna may assist fundraise and volunteer for the home violence shelter her mom ran for 35 years. They made the transfer in a 10-day RV highway journey.
Jesse informed Indianapolis Monthly, “[It] isn’t just a home violence shelter — it gives transitional housing and authorized counseling, and so they work with victims of intercourse trafficking. It is an unimaginable place, however on account of COVID-19, they misplaced lots of pupil volunteers. So my spouse and I got here right here in March, and I have been volunteering there about 4 days per week. I am doing portray, cleansing, and upkeep…”
He continued, “It has been some of the satisfying experiences I’ve had. Being concerned in one thing with a direct profit to people who find themselves susceptible has been actually fulfilling. So I am going there as a lot as doable. I used to be there till 1 a.m. the opposite night time, waxing a flooring for anyone who was shifting in. This has been a really uncommon interval of my life. I believe for lots of people, the pandemic has sort of thrown off no matter their routine was. For me, that has been a great factor.”
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In 2024, Glen Powell moved again house to Texas to be close to his household and end his diploma. He informed GQ that the good thing about “getting thus far in Hollywood is that [he] can now go away Hollywood.” He mentioned, “It is like I’ve earned the power to return to my household.”
He additionally informed IndieWire, “I am not going to be sitting in a category with different college students on the common. I am mainly going to be coming again as a result of I’ve to complete up, however I’m going to be capturing The Operating Man within the fall. So I’ll be in London, however I’m going to be going again for proctored exams. So, they’re letting me determine it out [with] distance studying. And I am clearly going to be coming in, Zooming in for lessons and whatnot, however I’ve to be again for the proctored exams. So, we’re figuring that out for 2 or thrice a semester, I will come again for all my stuff. Edgar [Wright, the director] has been very good about letting me end my diploma in the midst of his huge film.”
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Lily Collins and her husband Charlie McDowell moved to Copenhagen, Denmark in 2023. Denmark is significant to them as a result of they honeymooned there in 2021. In addition they co-own the media manufacturing and actual property firm Case Research Copenhagen. Lily informed Elle Denmark, “Life right here is simply so fantastic and so calm and vivid. And what I really like a lot is that there is a lot shade and, but, it is so calm. I really like having the ability to bike all over the place. And it seems like a giant metropolis but in addition very intimate, and everyone seems to be so good.”
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Since 2014, Chris Evans has largely lived in his house state of Massachusetts. In 2023, he informed GQ that, when he is at his residence exterior Boston, he can “actually take [his] time.” He mentioned, “[Returning to Massachusetts] takes me again to a spot when life was not simply easier — that is too reductive — however to a time the place I used to be extra pure, I assume; the place my ego and my insecurities weren’t such a dominant power that I needed to push in opposition to.”
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In 2014, Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves McConaughey moved to his house state of Texas to be there for his mother and brothers amid a household disaster. Camila seen Texas had a unique “gravity” on Matthew, and in the future, when he was driving again from visiting his mother with “a peaceable however assured, energetic” expression, she mentioned, “You need to transfer right here, do not you?” After he informed her he did need to transfer again, she mentioned, “Let’s do it.”
The adjustment was more difficult for Camila, who grew up in Brazil. Nevertheless, she has discovered consolation within the similarities between the cultures. In 2024, she informed Southern Living, “We grew up saying ‘Sure, ma’am’ and ‘No, sir’ or — as I ought to say — ‘Sure, ma’am’ and ‘Sure, sir.’ It takes me proper again to how I used to be raised… In Texas, we have been going to the church that we prefer to attend each Sunday. Sports activities turned a stronger custom for the youngsters.”
Matthew mentioned, “Time slowed down. The clock was proper, the physique clock. And a part of that’s ritual; a part of that’s simply the gap between locations and the best way folks transfer. However it’s additionally the hospitality, the courtesy, the widespread sense, the dearth of drama.”
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Josh Duhamel purchased a bit of land in Minnesota and spent 15 years engaged on it till shifting his household there full-time. He informed Parade, “A part of the rationale I constructed my place out in Minnesota, deep within the woods, is it is faraway from every little thing. The closest retailer is 40 miles away. As soon as we get there, it is actually about all people taking good care of one another — making reminiscences, spending time with household and buddies. You actually get an opportunity to get again to the fundamentals. You are not consumed by all these different distractions. Whenever you’re on the market, it is actually about having enjoyable, ensuring all people’s heat, all people’s obtained meals and water.”
He continued, “I’ve grow to be so much nearer to my very own mother and father due to this place, which has been fascinating. My dad completely loves coming on the market to hang around. And we have spent extra time collectively in these final 5, 10 years than we ever did rising up. I am a lot nearer to my dad. My mother now loves coming on the market. It is grow to be an actual, central hub for all of us…”
“My son goes to have reminiscences of this place without end. He isn’t on his iPad when he is on the market. He is on the market within the boat with me, or he is enjoying soccer on the seaside, or he is on the market within the woods doing no matter I am doing. After which I’ve a bit of child who’s going to expertise the identical factor. Sometime, I hope to move this on to them [so] they’re capable of share it with their youngsters. It is actually essential to me that they’ve this. It isn’t nearly having all of the facilities and all of the luxuries that we grow to be so used to. It is actually about household. It is about legacy,” Josh mentioned.
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Nikki Reed and Ian Somerhalder relocated a brief distance from LA to a farm in Santa Barbara as a result of she “actually didn’t need to be within the public eye anymore.” She informed Santa Barbara Magazine, “If I may like let you know my dream, it could be to realize whole meals autonomy, to have zero connection to a grocery store, to metropolis water, to something like that — to have the ability to reside with out counting on any system. So, you realize, we’re not too far off from that.”
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Michael Sheen moved again house to Port Talbot, Wales, in 2018. He first started considering relocation seven years prior when he performed Jesus in an area three-day-long theatrical efficiency of the Ardour alongside residents who have been coping with the growing value of dwelling and job losses.
He informed the Sunday Times, “When you grow to be conscious of difficulties within the space you come from, you do not have to do something. You’ll be able to reside some place else, go to household at Christmas, and switch a blind eye to injustice. It would not make you a nasty particular person, however I would seen one thing I could not unsee. I needed to apply myself, and I won’t have the impression I would like, however the one factor that I can say is that I am doing stuff. I do know I’m — I am paying for it!”
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After wrapping How I Met Your Mom, Jason Segel moved to a small stone home in an orange grove in Ojai, California, which is a bit of beneath two hours from LA. He first moved there whereas making ready for The Finish of the Tour as a result of he requested himself, “What would Edward Norton do?”. Then, he determined the reply was to “transfer to the center of nowhere so you may get out of your individual head.”
In 2023, he informed the LA Times, “Being there had the actually fascinating side-effect of realizing — after six weeks’ time, thoughts you — that, ‘Oh, my gosh. I lastly really feel calm.’ And it occurred to me that once you’re doing this job and dwelling in LA, you are by no means leaving campus. So it was like this complete new expertise to appreciate that when somebody exterior of Hollywood asks, ‘What are you as much as?’ they imply, like, proper now. So the reply is: ‘Oh. I am on my strategy to the grocery retailer,’ not ‘I’ve three tasks in improvement.'”
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In 2025, actor Shaun Majumder moved again to Canada together with his household. Quite than return house to Newfoundland, they settled in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He informed CBC, “Have you ever been watching the information? Have you ever seen what is going on on? I ran out of a burning constructing with my children beneath my arm and my spouse on my again. I am like, ‘Get me out of right here, that is loopy!’ You realize, we have been sort of, like, mulling over a giant change during the last six to eight months, to be sincere. Having two younger youngsters, dwelling in Los Angeles, is a extremely totally different expertise than shifting down there as an excellent enthusiastic whippersnapper actor. However, you realize, throughout COVID, we had two kids, and that modified our lives without end. We really went again to Newfoundland; it is sort of the place we hunkered down. It simply seems like the right storm.”
He additionally mentioned, “We additionally knew that the tides have been turning on the political panorama in America. We knew an election was developing, and I mentioned to my spouse, ‘Shelby, if Trump wins, I do not know. I’ve a sense that that is going to be the kicker to get me to go. I believe I have to go.’ We went by way of the election. We went to our household’s place in Florida for Christmas. We got here again to LA. The town was on fireplace. Trump was now president, whether or not you want him or not. The nation was sort of turning into extra chaotic. And we have been similar to, oh, yeah, if the universe wasn’t screaming at us proper now to get out of right here, then that is positively a kicker. And I do most of my work in Canada, so it simply is smart for us to be up right here.”
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James Van Der Beek, his spouse Kimberly Van Der Beek, and their 5 (now six) youngsters moved to Texas in 2020 after a personally troublesome 12 months for all of them. On Instagram, he shared, “Within the final ten months, we have had two late-term being pregnant losses, every of which put [Kimberly] within the hospital, we spent Christmas break pondering she had a tumor (the physician was mistaken, thank god), I used to be prematurely booted off a actuality dancing present I used to be favored to win in entrance of the entire world, and my mother died. And a shut-down. All of that led to some drastic modifications in our lives, and desires, and priorities… and landed us right here. Overflowing with profound gratitude right this moment.”
In 2023, he informed Good Morning America that he’d spent the previous few years engaged on the ranch, making meals with what they’ve grown of their backyard, and attempting “some makes an attempt at carpentry.” He mentioned, “Residing in Texas, I have been provided mainly every little thing that I assumed I actually wished earlier than, and I simply have not had it in me to say sure, to depart the place we’re at. However I believe it is time. My massive factor is that my youngsters include me, so we’ll all go wherever we’re going and determine it out. This break has been actually, actually good for me. I believe I’ve most likely discovered much more of who I’m and what’s essential in these final couple of years.”
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Lindsay Lohan reportedly moved to Dubai as a result of paparazzi are unlawful there. She moved to the UAE in 2014, and she or he’s now married and elevating her son there.
In 2024, she informed Flaunt, “It is nonetheless a metropolis. So it is fairly comparable. I imply, I do something that anybody else does of their day by day life. I am up with my son within the mornings, I do breakfast with him, go to my pilates, come house for lunch, and go to the park, the identical issues that any regular mother would do of their day by day life. Otherwise you would do in LA. I believe the one distinction is the time zone shift. There is a massive disconnect between when work begins for me and different locations. I can do my work calls with New York at like three or 4, round this time, after which LA picks up later.”
And in 2025, she informed Elle, “It is laborious in LA. Even taking my son to the park in LA, I get careworn. I am like, ‘Are there cameras?’ In New York, there is no fear; nobody bothers us. Everybody has their very own factor happening. There is a totally different sort of vitality in New York. I would relatively have downtime in New York than I’d in LA. However the good factor about LA is, I like area [and you get that here]. However I am pondering as I am saying this, the humorous factor is, in Dubai, I get all of these issues. I get the privateness, I get the peace, I get the area. I haven’t got to fret there; I really feel protected… We’re primarily based there, however final 12 months, we have been there lower than half the 12 months. I need to spend extra time there. It’s good to have a steadiness. However my husband and I are all the time like, ‘Okay, we’ve got till he is 5.'”
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Amanda Seyfried’s most important residence is a farm within the Catskills in New York. She lives there along with her husband, Thomas Sadoski, and their two youngsters. In addition they have goats, horses, chickens, and Gus the donkey. In 2020, she informed the New York Times, “It is insane how a lot I can really feel so completed and profitable right here with out having to be in a profitable film.”
Amanda bought her farm in 2013. A part of the rationale she began in search of a house exterior of Hollywood at age 22 was a poor expertise she had on a movie set. She mentioned, “I’ve been put in very insane positions. I used to be strolling round with no underpants on and a T-shirt, and I did not need to be, but I did not really feel like I had any energy to say, ‘No, this makes me uncomfortable.'”
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Jeff Daniels moved again to his hometown of Chelsea, Michigan, in 1986. In 2017, he informed The Off Camera Show, “I by no means purchased no matter you needed to do in LA to maintain a film profession, which included going to events and introducing your self to producers, going to different folks’s premieres simply to be seen. I couldn’t do this, wouldn’t do this.”
He continued, “I actually did not assume the profession would final. I used to be a fatalist, and a part of it was, once you’re from the Midwest, you could have a extremely good bullshit detector. There’s not a simplicity to them, however there’s an honesty — ‘Why do not you get to the purpose? Give up attempting to impress me.’ In order that was entrenched in me. Add to New York, ten years off-Broadway, when we aren’t actors, we’re artists, and LA and films are bupkis, I used to be informed. And that is artistically the place I grew up. So, I ain’t shopping for what Hollywood is promoting. So I simply wanna be generally known as a extremely good actor. I am a employed gun. One of many causes was a deathly worry of that sort of Hollywood success. Folks crash and burn.”
Jeff, who’s been married to his childhood sweetheart, Kathleen Treado, since 1979, additionally mentioned that, in his thoughts, the “worst care state of affairs” was shedding his spouse and household.
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Eric Stonestreet has “been dwelling in Kansas Metropolis since Fashionable Household ended, mainly.” In 2024, he informed In Depth with Graham Bensinger, “What I spotted it does is, it highlights every little thing nice about our enterprise — the leisure enterprise — and it highlights all of the douchebaggery of our enterprise. It amplifies it as a result of I am right here, I am coping with folks from right here, and I am going into the shop and having all these genuine, actual moments, after which I am going to Hollywood, and it is, you realize, you are reminded of a number of the kinds of folks that you simply cope with. However then, you are additionally provided fruit on a giant board. ‘Would you want some lychee and kiwi, sir?’ It is like, ‘Oh yeah, that is what’s nice about Hollywood.’ It is like, no one’s provided me a fruit board over at Jolly Ridge…”
He mentioned that returning to Hollywood periodically is “extra enjoyable” than dwelling there was.
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Debby Ryan and Josh Dun moved to his house state of Ohio in 2021. Whereas they have been spending the vacations together with his household a couple of years prior, she told him, “Let’s transfer to Columbus.” A brand new itemizing occurred to pop up on his actual property apps after a protracted interval of unsuccessful househunting, in order that they prolonged their journey to view it.
Debby informed Architectural Digest, “To be among the many timber was actually inspiring. This [house’s] treehouse theme knowledgeable lots of the design sensibility. We wished to melt the strains of the home with natural shapes, textures, and supplies. We gravitated towards lots of inexperienced — that is how the tree home turned a tree house.”
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After John Goodman met his spouse Anna Beth Goodman, he’d “sort of had it with present enterprise and [he] wished to get away from Los Angeles.” So, they ended up shifting to New Orleans. In 2014, he informed Garden & Gun, “The choices have been St. Louis or New Orleans. We obtained so far as shopping for land in St. Louis. However Anna Beth began designing a home that obtained to be the dimensions of Buckingham Palace, and I mentioned, ‘This ain’t gonna work out.’ So we chucked it and purchased a haunted home [in Old Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans] as a substitute.”
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Adrian Grenier made a everlasting transfer to Austin 4 years after shopping for property there. He left as a result of he “reached the apex of that promise – in case you work laborious, you grow to be well-known, you then make some huge cash…however it was lackluster on the prime.” Quickly after, he relocated 45 minutes away to Bastrop and began a farm.
He informed Austin Lifestyle, “I had buddies right here; I ran a enterprise right here and appreciated the tempo. Austin is cosmopolitan with out being snooty; it is earthy. Persons are sensible and profitable, however they do not flaunt it. There’s nothing to show; folks settle for you, and it felt good straight away. Plus, the nice meals, like Nixta Taqueria and ATX FOOD CO. Tacos thrice a day.. And the climate – I would had sufficient of brutal winters.”
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After dwelling between the US and the UK, Josh Harnett and Tamsin Egerton spent lockdown in her house nation. Once they have been anticipating their third little one, they opted to completely name Hampshire house. In 2024, Josh informed the Guardian that, in LA and NYC, “folks solely need to speak about your profession,” however of their village, “no one cares.” As a result of Josh is within the UK on a wedding visa, he is solely allowed to depart for work for 180 days annually. Principally, he can solely shoot one film a 12 months, which is completely alright for him as a result of he will get to spend extra time together with his kids.
Nevertheless, this is not the primary time Josh has moved out of LA. Within the early ’00s, when he was on his means in the direction of turning into a significant Hollywood star, he went house to Minnesota and went his separate methods together with his brokers. After a 12 months and a half break, he returned to doing smaller tasks. He mentioned, “Folks’s consideration to me on the time was borderline unhealthy. Nicely, look, I do not need to give this lots of weight. There have been incidents. Folks confirmed up at my home. Those that have been stalking me. A man confirmed up at considered one of my premieres with a gun, claiming to be my father. He ended up in jail. There have been a lot of issues. It was a bizarre time. And I wasn’t going to be grist for the mill.”
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Hilarie Burton Morgan and Jeffrey Dean Morgan initially lived between LA and NYC. Nevertheless, they each all the time wanted to reside on a farm — a shared dream they mentioned on their second date. So, after the delivery of their first little one, they relocated to a working farm referred to as Mischief Farm in Rhinebeck, New York. Their menagerie includes alpacas, Highland cows, geese, chickens, donkeys, and an emu.
Hilarie wrote a memoir, The Rural Diaries, about her life on Mischief Farm. In addition they ended up co-owning the native sweet retailer, Samuel’s Sweet Shop, with Paul Rudd and Julie Yaeger.
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And at last, after dwelling in Hollywood for 20 years, comic Tom Inexperienced moved house to Ontario, Canada, the place he lives on a 150-acre farm, in 2021. He informed the New York Times, “I am not likely a Hollywood man. I began to really feel like I wasn’t being true to my genuine self.”