15 Celebrities Who Moved to Texas on Why They Did It

Roseanne Barr’s son, Jake Pentland, informed Us Weekly in June 2025 that his well-known mom had traded the Hollywood Hills for Texas Hill Nation, a area in central Texas that features cities like Austin and New Braunfels.

“My mother lives with me, my spouse, and my two daughters — she’s the very best grandma,” Pentland informed the journal.

In a separate June interview with Fox News Digital, Barr mentioned residing in Texas is a “dream come true” and described what her new life appears to be like like.

“I am doing loads of mowing. I’ve acquired a extremely improbable tractor out right here, and I am mowing,” Barr mentioned. “The one downside is I do not clear the bushes fairly pretty much as good as I ought to, and I am at all times hitting a tree and knocking it over, and it at all times hits me within the head.”

A local of Texas, Duff determined along with her fiancé Matt Rosenberg to pack up the youngsters and go away California as soon as the pandemic hit.

At first, she was nervous that the transfer would damage her profession.

“I feel a lot of my worry of shifting out of Los Angeles was that my profession was there and that I’d by no means work once more or one thing like that,” she told Fox News Digital in 2022. “And, you recognize, I feel this has all taught us that Zoom definitely is usually a very highly effective software. And we are able to, you recognize, very fortunately for me, get to proceed to work from right here, and I get to dwell close to my dad. I have never lived, right here, close to my dad in a extremely very long time.”

The son of Clint Eastwood, Scott has been methodically constructing his personal profession, exhibiting up within the “Quick and Livid” franchise and Man Ritchie motion pictures.

Throughout his downtime in Texas, he does every thing from fishing to looking.

“I feel that is why individuals who come to Texas actually can fall in love with it,” he told Flaunt in 2021 from his dwelling in Austin. “There’s extra group, persons are extra neighborly, persons are good. It slows life down somewhat bit. It isn’t this fast-paced residing in a giant metropolis like New York or Los Angeles.”

After spending most of her life jet-setting all over the world attempting to overcome the modeling business, Hadid determined just lately to take a while away from the highlight.

In early 2024, she spoke to Attract about shifting to Texas to deal with her psychological and bodily well being (she was recognized with Lyme Illness in 2013), and be along with her cowboy boyfriend Adan Banuelos.

“Simply as I’ve styled myself for years now — which I nonetheless do — I really like having the ability to do my very own hair and make-up, be pleased with how I look, and prepare with my girlfriends right here in Texas,” Hadid told Allure. “We’ve got the very best time, and I by no means really feel like I have to do an excessive amount of.”

“For the primary time now, I am not placing on a faux face. If I do not really feel good, I will not go. If I do not really feel good, I take time for myself. And I’ve by no means had the chance to do this or say that earlier than,” Hadid added. “Now when anyone sees me in photos they usually say I look blissful, I genuinely am. I’m feeling higher; my unhealthy days now had been my outdated good days.”

The star has loved visiting Austin for many years however lastly determined to dwell there in 2020.

“I like it. I have been coming right here for 20 years,” he informed “Live with Kelly and Ryan” in 2020. “I am a lot nearer to my mother and all people. I like it. It is nice.”

The previous combined martial arts (MMA) fighter turned TikTok food critic has arrange store in Texas.

After residing in Las Vegas, Lee relocated to Texas in November 2024. In a December video reviewing the downtown Dallas restaurant The Depraved Butcher, he revealed that he now lives in Dallas.

“One factor I do love in regards to the Dallas meals scene — we have been right here a month, a month and a half — they do have some good superb eating eating places,” Lee mentioned.

Oscar-winner Matthew McConaughey and spouse Camila Alves settled in Austin in 2012 after shopping for a ten,800-square-foot mansion.

In response to a 2024 profile in Southern Living, the transfer to Texas was initially due to a “household disaster,” when he wanted to assist his mom and two brothers. The couple determined to remain put and lift their three youngsters there.

“Ritual got here again,” McConaughey mentioned of being again in Texas. “Whether or not that was Sunday church, sports activities, dinner collectively as a household each night time, or staying up after that telling tales within the kitchen, sitting on the island pouring drinks and nibbling whereas retelling all of them in several methods than we informed them earlier than.”

In July, Elon Musk vowed to move two of his companies, X and SpaceX, out of California and into Texas. He already moved Telsa to Texas in 2021.

In 2020, Musk introduced that he had already moved to Texas himself at The Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council summit.

Musk has claimed to personal a tiny home in Texas, and data present he bought a house in Austin in 2022.

In 2022, O’Neal purchased a 5,269-square-foot dwelling in Carrollton listed at $1,224,000 and offered it in 2024 for an undisclosed quantity, although it was listed for $1.7 million, in accordance with Realtor.com.

That 12 months, Chexy Belief, tied to the Carrollton buy, purchased a 4,670-square-foot dwelling in Rockwall County. In 2024, O’Neal opened a department of his Huge Hen chain restaurant in Fort Price.

As his footprint within the area grows, he informed WFAA he plans to make the world his dwelling base.

“I am 75% going to maneuver right here full time,” O’Neal mentioned in June. “I’ve to see what is going on on with TNT subsequent 12 months, however based mostly on that, you may most likely be seeing much more of me.”

The “Twisters” star, who can also be a local Texan, moved again to Austin from Los Angeles just lately to be near his household and for his personal psychological well being.

“When all you do is devour motion pictures and leisure, you could possibly turn into somewhat self-aware and possibly spinoff of your self,” Powell told USA Today. “Your private life, there is not any form of freedom there, there’s storytelling round that, and I really feel like that is simply not good for you on the long run.”

Padalecki ditched Hollywood for Texas earlier than it was a development. The “Supernatural” star, a San Antonio native, relocated from Los Angeles to Austin together with his spouse, Genevieve, in 2012.

In an Instagram video taken on Austin’s twenty fourth Avenue in 2020, he defined why he loves town a lot.

“Austin brings me a heat and a happiness and a peace that I’ve been unable to seek out wherever else in my travels,” Padalecki mentioned. “I really like being right here.”

In 2025, former “Promoting Sundown” star Christine Quinn relocated to her dwelling state of Texas after splitting from her ex-husband, tech entrepreneur Christian Dumontet.

Quinn now lives in a suburb outdoors Dallas along with her younger son, Christian.

“I’m actually, actually grateful to be residing right here,” Quinn informed People in January, including that she’s blissful to be nearer to household. “I’ve a sister who lives actually near me, and my son has a cousin. So it is actually one thing that I wanted versus the chaos once I was in Los Angeles.”

Like many different celebs, Rogan left Los Angeles as soon as the pandemic hit.

In a 2023 episode of his in style podcast, “The Joe Rogan Expertise,” he defined why he ended up in Texas.

“Then we went to the lake, and persons are taking part in music and leaping within the water,” mentioned Rogan, including that his youngsters “had been like, ‘We wish to dwell right here!'”

“That was it. Two months later, I lived right here,” he mentioned within the podcast episode.

“The Sopranos” star moved to Austin in 2021 along with her household, husband Cutter Dykstra, and sons Beau and Jack.

“I virtually really feel extra linked to my craft and why I really like appearing,” Sigler told The New York Times in 2021. “When the calls are available in, it is a stupendous shock. I am nonetheless on issues and I am nonetheless a businesswoman and it is nonetheless my profession, however I do not really feel the stress round it as a result of we took a stand for ourselves and we made choices for our households.”

A 12 months after renewing his vows together with his spouse, Kimberly, in Austin, the “Dawson’s Creek” star moved the entire household there.

They now dwell on a 36-acre property.

“We wished to get the youngsters out of Los Angeles,” Van Der Beek told Austin Lifestyle in 2021. “We wished to present them area and we wished them to dwell in nature.”