# What big celebrities live in surprisingly "out of the way" places? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 4, 2016, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134 "2016-02-04T14:20:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/41 "2016-02-04T20:24:00Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I think Neil Young still lives on the farm in California that he bought back in the 60s. Woodside is hardly an “out of the way place” being about 1/2 hour from SF. It’s exclusive, for sure, but right smack in the middle of the Bay Area. I assume his ranch is a bit up in the hills, but still… ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/42 "2016-02-04T20:39:07Z")
> [@TreacherousCretin](#): > > A few years ago we visited a friend who lives nearby (in Paonia) and was surprised when she showed us the area where JC lived. It really is way the hell away from everything. Here’s [a YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzHfMrPRFdw) of Joe’s place (he did alright). It’s a pretty area, and well away from all the ridiculousness of the ski areas along I-70. Weirdness: “You Can Leave Your Hat On” just came on the streaming radio while I was typing this. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/43 "2016-02-04T20:49:56Z")
Gary Coleman lived in a small town in Utah for the last few years of his life. ---
**Author:** ![Totenfeier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@Totenfeier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Totenfeier)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/44 "2016-02-04T20:50:11Z")
Andie MacDowell spends much of her time in Asheville, NC, I think. ---
**Author:** ![Lamar\_Mundane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lamar\_Mundane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamar_Mundane)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/45 "2016-02-04T20:52:49Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > Apparently several live in Montana > **John Elway** > [What Famous Celebrities Live in Montana?](http://www.bigskywords.com/montana-blog/what-famous-celebrities-live-in-montana) He might have a place in Montana and I think he lived there for a few years as a kid, but he’s made his home in Denver for 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/46 "2016-02-04T20:58:15Z")
Neil Gaiman lives in Menomonie, Wisconsin. ---
**Author:** ![fachverwirrt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/94ad74/32.png) [@fachverwirrt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fachverwirrt)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/47 "2016-02-04T21:06:13Z")
[Christine Brewer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Brewer) who you’ve probably never heard of if you’re not a fan of opera, but you definitely have if you are, lives in Lebanon, IL, which is basically a cornfield about 30 miles east of St. Louis. ---
**Author:** ![skdo23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@skdo23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skdo23)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/48 "2016-02-04T21:17:57Z")
Treat Williams and Jonathan Goldsmith (The Most Interesting Man in the World) both live in Manchester, VT, pop. 4,391. Luis Guzman (Raoul “El Cid” Hernandez, from _Oz_) lives in Sutton, VT, pop. 1,029. ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/49 "2016-02-04T21:27:45Z")
> [@Quimby](#): > > I’m not sure if he still does but Stephen Colbert lived in Montclair NJ which is a pretty normal small town in NJ. Yeah, but so did [Russian Mole Spies](http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/04/montclair_spy_house_for_sale_4.html). Then again, he DID do more damage… ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/50 "2016-02-04T21:30:39Z")
> [@skdo23](#): > > Treat Williams and Jonathan Goldsmith (The Most Interesting Man in the World) both live in Manchester, VT, pop. 4,391. Together? Now that would be interesting!! ---
**Author:** ![Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8491ac/32.png) [@Fool\_in\_the\_Rain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fool_in_the_Rain)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/51 "2016-02-04T21:54:44Z")
Right in my backyard, and maybe a B-lister - but Karen Allen lives in Montery Massachusetts, owns a Textile company - Karen Allen Fiber Arts in Great Barrington, MA and teaches acting and yoga in Great Barrington, MA. ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/52 "2016-02-04T22:31:00Z")
> [@Gordon\_Urquhart](#): > > Here’s [a YouTube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzHfMrPRFdw) of Joe’s place (he did alright). It’s a pretty area, and well away from all the ridiculousness of the ski areas along I-70. Very nice. Thanks for posting that. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2016, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/53 "2016-02-04T23:54:34Z")
I used to live in New Paltz, NY. When I was doing so, Robert De Niro had a home in the neighbouring village of [Gardiner, NY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiner,_New_York). ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/54 "2016-02-05T00:36:11Z")
Not sure is former Yankee pitcher Fritz Peterson is now (he may be if Ben Affleck and Matt Damon ever make the movie about Peterson and teammate Mike Kekich swapping families in 1973). But he lives in a small town in Minnesota where no one knows he is a former baseball player (lowest era at old Yankee Stadium), just Mr Peterson. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/55 "2016-02-05T00:38:16Z")
> [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](#): > > Prince lives in Minneapolis, MN. Not the milieu I would have expected him to come from, but then again, where exactly could someone as unique as him arise? I used to work with a woman whose son lived in the same general area as him, and regularly saw him at the grocery store. He would usually be dressed in a t-shirt and blue jeans, and nobody bothered him, which is as it should be. The three members of Rush all live in different places. Geddy Lee is still in Toronto, Alex Lifeson lives in southern Florida, and Neil Peart moved to L.A. when he remarried and is now an U.S. citizen. I’ve heard that a lot of very well-known celebrities live in the Chicago suburbs because nobody expects to see them there, and people totally leave them alone. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/56 "2016-02-05T00:40:07Z")
The short guy on “American Pickers” lives in a middle-class neighborhood in Davenport, Iowa. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/57 "2016-02-05T00:40:34Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > I used to live in New Paltz, NY. When I was doing so, Robert De Niro had a home in the neighbouring village of [Gardiner, NY](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardiner,_New_York). Jimmy Cagney and his wife spent the last 20 years of their life on a farm in. Stanfordville, about 35 minutes east ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/58 "2016-02-05T00:46:47Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > I’ve heard that a lot of very well-known celebrities live in the Chicago suburbs because nobody expects to see them there, and people totally leave them alone. Blues musician Muddy Waters lived in the very middle-class (and, at that time, I imagine, largely white) suburb of Westmont for the last decade of his life. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/59 "2016-02-05T00:47:31Z")
How could I have grown up in Des Moines and not remembered that this was where Slipknot came from, and most of them still live there? :smack: Probably because I don’t listen to them? Anyway, that something like that would come out of there doesn’t surprise me. Tiny Tim lived there for a while, as did Persis Khambatta from “Star Trek”. Both are deceased now. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/60 "2016-02-05T00:49:31Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > Arlo Guthrie lives in the Stockbridge, MA area. He eventually bought the church where Alice and Ray (and Facha) lived, but he doesn’t live there. Does he live in the restaurant? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134.md?page=4)