23 celebrities who moved to Texas on why it's the best place for them

Roseanne Barr's son, Jake Pentland, told Us Weekly successful June 2025 that his celebrated mother had traded the Hollywood Hills for Texas Hill Country, a region successful cardinal Texas that includes cities for illustration Austin and New Braunfels.

"My mom lives pinch me, my wife, and my 2 daughters — she's the champion grandma," Pentland told the magazine.

In a abstracted question and reply pinch Fox News Digital, Barr said surviving successful Texas is simply a "dream travel true."

"I'm doing a batch of mowing. I've sewage a really awesome tractor retired here, and I'm mowing," Barr said. "The only problem is I don't clear the trees rather arsenic bully arsenic I should, and I'm ever hitting a character and knocking it over, and it ever hits maine successful the head."

Before becoming 1 of the world's astir dressed up gymnasts, Olympian Simone Biles grew up successful the Houston area pinch her grandparents.

This year, Biles and her husband, NFL information Jonathan Owens, announced their return to Texas aft Owens' statement pinch the Chicago Bears expired.

After astir 3 years of construction, the mates settled into a large, lavish lakefront mansion successful Springfield, Texas — astir 3 hours northbound of Houston — Realtor.com reported successful February.

A autochthonal of Texas, Duff decided pinch her fiancé Matt Rosenberg to battalion up the kids and time off California erstwhile the pandemic hit.

At first, she was tense that the move would wounded her career.

"I deliberation truthful overmuch of my fearfulness of moving retired of Los Angeles was that my profession was location and that I would ne'er activity again aliases thing for illustration that," she told Fox News Digital successful 2022. "And, you know, I deliberation this has each taught america that Zoom surely tin beryllium a very powerful tool. And we can, you know, very luckily for me, get to proceed to activity from here, and I get to unrecorded adjacent my dad. I haven't lived, here, adjacent my dada successful a really agelong time."

The boy of Clint Eastwood, Scott has been methodically building his ain career, showing up successful the "Fast and Furious" franchise and Guy Ritchie movies.

During his downtime successful Texas, he does everything from sportfishing to hunting.

"I deliberation that's why group who travel to Texas really tin autumn successful emotion pinch it," he told Flaunt successful 2021 from his location successful Austin. "There's much community, group are much neighborly, group are nice. It slows life down a small bit. It's not this fast-paced surviving successful a large metropolis for illustration New York aliases Los Angeles."

In 2020, "Entourage" and "The Devil Wears Prada" prima Adrian Grenier near the Hollywood Hills for a 46-acre sustainable ranch successful Bastrop, Texas, a metropolis astir 40 minutes southeast of Austin.

While successful Texas, Grenier has continued acting and astir precocious appeared successful the short movie "Self Custody," astir a struggling begetter who loses a cryptocurrency fortune. The movie was changeable successful Austin, adjacent his home.

In an question and reply pinch Page Six successful March, Grenier said Texas' burgeoning movie and tv manufacture will support him in the state.

"There's $2.5 cardinal that the Texas authorities government conscionable put into movie and tv projects successful Texas," Grenier said. "They're building 3 movie studios not excessively acold from me. I don't spot immoderate logic why we wouldn't conscionable proceed to movie successful Texas."

After spending astir of her life jet-setting astir the world trying to conquer the modeling industry, Hadid decided precocious to return immoderate clip distant from the spotlight.

In early 2024, she said to Allure astir moving to Texas to attraction connected her intelligence and beingness wellness (she was diagnosed pinch Lyme Disease successful 2013), and beryllium pinch her past boyfriend, cowboy Adan Banuelos.

"Just arsenic I person styled myself for years now — which I still do — I emotion being capable to do my ain hairsbreadth and makeup, beryllium happy pinch really I look, and get fresh pinch my girlfriends present successful Texas," Hadid told Allure. "We person the champion time, and I ne'er consciousness for illustration I request to do excessively much."

"For the first clip now, I'm not putting connected a clone face. If I don't consciousness good, I won't go. If I don't consciousness good, I return clip for myself. And I've ne'er had the opportunity to do that aliases opportunity that before," Hadid added. "Now, erstwhile anybody sees maine successful pictures, and they opportunity I look happy, I genuinely am. I americium emotion better; my bad days now were my aged bully days."

Harrelson lived successful Hawaii for galore years earlier moving backmost to his location authorities of Texas successful 2023.

Now successful the Lone Star State and surviving extracurricular Austin, the character has lobbied alongside longtime friend Matthew McConaughey to make Texas a hub for movie and tv production.

In 2025, the Texas House approved Senate Bill 22, which provides $300 cardinal each 2 years done 2035 to support the section movie industry.

In 2020, aft astir 20 years hosting "The Bachelor," Dallas autochthonal Chris Harrison near Los Angeles for Austin pinch his partner, Lauren Zima.

"What I emotion astir about the caller section is the truth that Austin is the caller Hollywood, which intends the opportunities are plentifulness here," Harrison told People.

Supermodel Chanel Iman and her husband, New Orleans Saints shot subordinate Davon Godchaux, purchased a freely ranch astir 90 minutes westbound of Dallas, Architectural Digest reported successful June.

"Texas gave america the state to dream bigger," Iman told Architectural Digest. "We emotion the land, the openness, being surrounded by nature. That's really what brought america here, and it's a dream travel true."

The prima has enjoyed visiting Austin for decades but yet decided to unrecorded location successful 2020.

"I emotion it. I've been coming present for 20 years," he told "Live pinch Kelly and Ryan" successful 2020. "I'm overmuch person to my mom and everybody. I emotion it. It's great."

The erstwhile Uber CEO announced connected the regular unrecorded video and audio podcast TBPN that he had moved to Texas successful December 2025.

Kalanick joins a slew of tech billionaires, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who person near California for greener pastures.

The erstwhile mixed martial arts combatant turned TikTok nutrient critic has group up shop successful Texas.

After surviving successful Las Vegas, Lee relocated to Texas successful November 2024. In a December video reviewing the downtown Dallas edifice The Wicked Butcher, he revealed that he now lives successful Dallas.

"One point I do emotion astir the Dallas nutrient segment — we've been present a month, a period and a half — they do person immoderate bully good eating restaurants," Lee said.

Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey and woman Camila Alves settled successful Austin successful 2012 aft buying a 10,800-square-foot mansion.

According to a 2024 profile successful Southern Living, the move to Texas was initially because of a "family crisis," erstwhile he needed to thief his mother and 2 brothers. The mates decided to enactment put and raise their 3 children there.

"Ritual came back," McConaughey said of being backmost successful Texas. "Whether that was Sunday church, sports, meal together arsenic a family each night, aliases staying up aft that telling stories successful the kitchen, sitting astatine the land pouring drinks and nibbling while retelling them each successful different ways than we told them before."

Elon Musk has moved some SpaceX and Tesla's office retired of California to Texas.

In 2020, Musk announced that he had moved to Texas astatine The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council summit.

Musk has said he owns a tiny location successful Texas, and records show he bought a location successful Austin successful 2022.

In 2022, O'Neal bought a 5,269-square-foot location successful Carrollton listed astatine $1,224,000 and sold it successful 2024 for an undisclosed amount, though it was listed for $1.7 million, according to Realtor.com.

That year, Chexy Trust, tied to the Carrollton purchase, bought a 4,670-square-foot location successful Rockwall County. In 2024, O'Neal opened a branch of his Big Chicken concatenation edifice successful Fort Worth.

As his footprint successful the region grows, he told Dallas tv position WFAA he plans to make the area his location base.

"I'm 75% going to move present afloat time," O'Neal said past June. "I person to spot what's going connected pinch TNT adjacent year, but based connected that, you'll astir apt beryllium seeing a batch much of me."

The "Twisters" star, who is besides a autochthonal Texan, precocious moved backmost to Austin from Los Angeles to beryllium adjacent to his family and amended his intelligence health.

"When each you do is devour movies and entertainment, you could go a small self-aware and possibly derivative of yourself," Powell told USA Today. "Your individual life, there's nary benignant of state there, there's storytelling astir that, and I consciousness for illustration that's conscionable not bully for you connected the agelong term."

Padalecki ditched Hollywood for Texas earlier it was a trend. The "Supernatural" star, a San Antonio native, relocated from Los Angeles to Austin pinch his wife, Genevieve, successful 2012.

In an Instagram video taken connected Austin's 24th Street successful 2020, he explained why he loves the metropolis truthful much.

"Austin brings maine a warmth and a happiness and a bid that I person been incapable to find anyplace other successful my travels," Padalecki said. "I emotion being here."

Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons, who exchanged rings successful 2017 and joined successful 2022, thought they'd temporarily spell to Texas, Plemons' location state, during the pandemic, but person since grown accustomed to life there.

In an question and reply pinch CBS News Sunday Morning, Dunst said that she's enjoyed her clip successful Texas.

"It's everything," she said. "People attraction little because it's not a movie town. They're amended pinch children, the parks are nicer."

Plemons told Texas Monthly successful a 2024 screen communicative that the mates was renovating their location successful East Austin, perchance to move into it for good.

"The group conscionable look astatine you successful a different way," Plemons told Texas Monthly. "They're not connected the hamster wheel."

In 2025, erstwhile "Selling Sunset" prima Christine Quinn relocated to her location authorities of Texas aft splitting from her ex-husband, tech entrepreneur Christian Dumontet.

Quinn now lives successful a suburb extracurricular Dallas pinch her young son, Christian.

"I americium really, really grateful to beryllium surviving here," Quinn told People successful January, adding that she's happy to beryllium person to family. "I person a sister who lives really adjacent to me, and my boy has a cousin. So it's really thing that I needed arsenic opposed to the chaos erstwhile I was successful Los Angeles."

Like galore different celebs, Rogan left Los Angeles erstwhile the pandemic hit.

In a 2023 episode of his celebrated podcast, "The Joe Rogan Experience," he explained why he ended up successful Texas.

"Then we went to the lake, and group are playing euphony and jumping successful the water," said Rogan, adding that his kids "were like, 'We want to unrecorded here!'"

"That was it. Two months later, I lived here," he said successful the podcast episode.

"The Sopranos" prima moved to Austin successful 2021 pinch her family, hubby Cutter Dykstra, and sons Beau and Jack.

"I almost consciousness much connected to my trade and why I emotion acting," Sigler told The New York Times successful 2021. "When the calls travel in, it's a beautiful surprise. I'm still connected things and I'm still a businesswoman and it's still my career, but I don't consciousness the unit astir it because we took a guidelines for ourselves and we made decisions for our families."

Noah Syndergaard grew up successful Mansfield, a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth. Drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays successful 2010, he went connected to play for respective MLB teams, including the New York Mets, Los Angeles Angels, Philadelphia Phillies, Los Angeles Dodgers, and Cleveland Guardians.

This year, the erstwhile pitcher — though not officially retired — returned to Texas, settling successful Westlake, astir 30 miles northwest of Dallas, GQ reported successful August.

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