# 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:** 5
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/81 "2016-02-05T20:42:44Z")
As far as I know, Gary Larson (Far Side) still lives on Orcas Island in Puget Sound. ---
**Author:** ![Charlie\_Wayne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4bbf92/32.png) [@Charlie\_Wayne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Charlie_Wayne)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/82 "2016-02-05T20:50:29Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I believe Randy Quaid lives on Mars. Nice one. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/83 "2016-02-05T20:59:14Z")
> [@Trom](#): > > Bob Dylan lives on a farm/ranch outside of a small town in Minnesota. He did at one point, but sold that some years back. The township is in the metro area and being developed a little more than when he bought it. His Wiki page seems to think he may live in California. ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/84 "2016-02-05T21:36:32Z")
> [@Loach](#): > > That is hardly out of the way. It’s a 45 minute commute to NYC. A lot of TV people who work in NYC live in Montclair. Yogi Berra lived there too. > > Speaking of New Jersey Bonjovi still lives in Middletown. Springsteen lives in Rumson. All of North Jersey is an easy commute to NYC. My point was it was just a little town like every other one around it. ---
**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 5, 2016, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/85 "2016-02-05T22:16:54Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > I believe Randy Quaid lives on Mars. Quaid also believes this. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/86 "2016-02-05T22:32:02Z")
The following infobits could be between 15 and 30 years out of date: Martina Navratilova and Rita Mae Brown live (lived? It’s been a while) near Charlottesville, VA. Roseanne Barr, post-TV show, owned a big house in rural Iowa. Last time I was in Atlanta, a friend pointed out Elton John’s condo on Peachtree Rd. You’d expect Vaclav Havel to live in Prague, but did you know he lived next door to the [Dancing House](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_House)? Carrot Top, Britney Spears and Shania Twain all live in Vegas, quite near one another. Not a big shock, I know, but how did he get into their hot tub? ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/87 "2016-02-05T22:40:14Z")
A lot of celebs live/have lived in Taos, New Mexico. David Soul used to live there but apparently he’s moved to London and now has British citizenship. Gary Purghoff, Radar from MASH, lives in the little mountain town of Paradise, California. He’s a certified wildlife rescuer. Tom Selleck has a place up there, too, but I don’t think he lives there full time. ---
**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 5, 2016, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/88 "2016-02-05T23:12:13Z")
> [@Crafter\_Man](#): > > I believe Woody Harrelson lives around Lebanon, OH. Ay…? Oh…? Woody Harrelson’s in Ohio…? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/89 "2016-02-05T23:22:48Z")
Long departed, but Susan Hayward lived in Carrollton, GA for most of her final years. Her last husband was from there. It was reported that she married a Georgia car dealer and farmer, which made people there laugh- he owned many businesses and farms and calling him a car dealer would be kind of like calling Tim Cook a computer salesmen. (He probably wasn’t _that_ rich, but he was very wealthy.) Generations ago there used to be a Hollywood colony in Cuernavaca. They owned vacation houses there and spent months at a time in residence, where they could keep a big house with a large staff for a fraction of what they’d pay in Beverly Hills, and socialized there. Names I remember are Merle Oberon, Helen Hayes, and Maurice Evans, but there were more. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/90 "2016-02-06T01:31:54Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Roseanne Barr, post-TV show, owned a big house in rural Iowa. She and Tom Arnold started building a huge house near Ottumwa (they split up before it was completed; I understand nobody else wanted it and it’s basically a ruin) and also owned a restaurant in the small town of Eldon, which is better known as the town with the “American Gothic” house. As an aside, that house was inhabited in recent years by the author of this book, which was a best-seller a few years ago; she has since moved. > **[Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie: Howard, Beth M.: 9780373892570:...](https://www.amazon.com/Making-Piece-Memoir-Love-Loss/dp/0373892578)** > > Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie \[Howard, Beth M.\] on Amazon.com. \*FREE\* shipping on qualifying offers. Making Piece: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Pie Tommy James, of the Shondells, also lived in rural Iowa for some years, and may still. He married a woman from that town, and that was where they wanted to raise their kids. ---
**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 6, 2016, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/91 "2016-02-06T03:07:18Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > As far as I know, Gary Larson (Far Side) still lives on Orcas Island in Puget Sound. Interesting. I wonder if Doper (and my cousin) P\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ knows about this. He and his wife live on Orcas. ---
**Author:** ![Time\_Like\_Tears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@Time\_Like\_Tears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Time_Like_Tears)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/92 "2016-02-06T14:12:15Z")
Ted Turner lives about 20 miles from my house in Florida, and though it’s about 30 minutes from Tallahassee, it truly is the middle of nowhere. That part of the panhandle isn’t exactly a booming metropolitan sprawl, in fact it’s the exact opposite. Town called Lamont, off US-27. ---
**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 6, 2016, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/93 "2016-02-06T18:16:58Z")
> [@eulalia](#): > > My nephew’s wife helped Pam Cocker decorate that place. My nephew got to meet Joe. We were all jealous. Where does your nephew ('s wife) live? Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/94 "2016-02-06T18:20:03Z")
Alan Alda lived in Leonia, New Jersey for decades. Wilson Picket lived in Englewood, New Jersey. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/95 "2016-02-06T19:01:22Z")
Hardly an active celebrity (I think he teaches acting classes or something) but Spencer Milligan (the dad on Land of the Lost) lives near Sturgeon Bay, WI Brian ---
**Author:** ![coremelt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@coremelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coremelt)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/96 "2016-02-07T03:48:39Z")
Olivia Newton John lives in Byron bay, Australia a small tourist town known for it beautiful beaches. ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [February 7, 2016, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/97 "2016-02-07T03:59:51Z")
Little Richard lives in Lynchburg TN, a town more famous as being the source of Jack Daniel’s. ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/98 "2016-02-11T22:05:35Z")
I hesitate any of these spend “most” of their time in North Central New Mexico, but a fair portion of their time, yes. Julia Roberts Neil Patrick Harris Val Kilmer Demi Moore ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/99 "2016-02-11T22:23:36Z")
For a while, Erin “Joanie” Moran lived in a trailer in [Indiana](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/10/erin-moran-happy-days-star-homeless-broke-recluse_n_2109722.html) with her husband and mother-in-law. Then there was a drunken fight, and Moran relocated to living in a hotel, also in Indiana (I want to say French Lick, but not 100% sure). I don’t know where she is, currently. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134/100 "2016-02-11T23:08:04Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Tommy James, of the Shondells, also lived in rural Iowa for some years, and may still. He married a woman from that town, and that was where they wanted to raise their kids. Funny what a small world it is sometimes. James’ family moved to Niles, MI, when he was about 10-11. I think they came from Ohio, originally, if I remember correctly. Tommy’s last name was Jackson, and his dad, Gary Jackson, was my dad’s barber for years. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-big-celebrities-live-in-surprisingly-out-of-the-way-places/745134.md?page=6)