Celebrities Who Have Decided to Move Away from Los Angeles: James Van Der Beek and More

Several A-listers have decided to say goodbye to Los Angeles and grow roots elsewhere.

Years after This Is Us came to an end, for example, star Chrissy Metz relocated from the City of Angels to Nashville.

“I was in L.A. for 21 years, but my family is in Florida, where I’m from, and during the pandemic, I could drive to them from here,” Metz explained to People in April 2025. It’s just a better quality of life here. Everything is 15 minutes away, and it’s just so much less stress.”

Metz is hardly alone. Ian Somerhalder and Nikki Reed, who share two kids, left behind their Hollywood life for a farm.

“Walking through the farm with kids and dogs and family, every stop, you’re pulling off of trees or off of bushes, pulling up out of the ground and feeding everyone as you’re moving through the farm,” Somerhalder said in a November 2023 interview with E! News, adding that farm living is “a lot” of work. “It’s unbelievable when you see these amazing creature life forms and how they all live on the farm together is really special.”

Scroll down to see which celebrities chose to move away from Los Angeles: