This makes Texas the second-most popular destination in the US for movers, just behind Florida, which had about 739,000 inbound movers during the same period.Several celebrities are among the hordes of movers to Texas. This reflects a broader trend of wealth realignment in the United States, where even the proverbial Joneses are moving to areas where their money goes further and the weather is more favorable.Consider supermodel Bella Hadid, who moved to Fort Worth, Texas, this year to live with her professional horseman boyfriend, Adan Banuelos. Roseanne Barr and comedian and podcast host Joe Rogan have decamped from LA to Austin in recent years.Many other stars have also relocated to Texas.Business Insider has compiled a list of 16 notable celebrities and businesspeople who have moved themselves — and in some cases, their businesses — to the Lone Star State.The list is presented in alphabetical order by last name.Roseanne Barr traded the Hollywood Hills for 30 acres in Texas Hill Country.Roseanne Barr.Araya Doheny/Getty Images for DailyWire+Roseanne Barr's son, Jake Pentland, told Us Weekly in June 2025 that his famous mother had traded the Hollywood Hills for Texas Hill Country, a region in central Texas that includes cities like Austin and New Braunfels."My mom lives with me, my wife, and my two daughters — she's the best grandma," Pentland told the magazine.In a separate June interview with Fox News Digital, Barr said living in Texas is a "dream come true" and described what her new life looks like."I'm doing a lot of mowing.

I've got a really fantastic tractor out here, and I'm mowing," Barr said. "The only problem is I don't clear the trees quite as good as I should, and I'm always hitting a tree and knocking it over, and it always hits me in the head."Haylie Duff admitted it took a while to realize she could still have an acting career without living in LA.Haylie Duff attends the LA Premiere of "Mira, Royal Detective" at Disney Studios on Saturday, March 7, 2020, in Burbank, Calif.Mark Von Holden/Invision/APA native of Texas, Duff decided with her fiancé Matt Rosenberg to pack up the kids and leave California once the pandemic hit.At first, she was nervous that the move would hurt her career."I think so much of my fear of moving out of Los Angeles was that my career was there and that I would never work again or something like that," she told Fox News Digital in 2022.

"And, you know, I think this has all taught us that Zoom certainly can be a very powerful tool. And we can, you know, very luckily for me, get to continue to work from here, and I get to live near my dad. I haven't lived, here, near my dad in a really long time."Scott Eastwood loves living in Texas because it "slows life down."Actor Scott Eastwood.Willy Sanjuan/Invision/APThe son of Clint Eastwood, Scott has been methodically building his own career, showing up in the "Fast and Furious" franchise and Guy Ritchie movies.During his downtime in Texas, he does everything from fishing to hunting."I think that's why people who come to Texas really can fall in love with it," he told Flaunt in 2021 from his home in Austin.

"There's more community, people are more neighborly, people are nice. It slows life down a little bit. It's not this fast-paced living in a big city like New York or Los Angeles."Adrian Grenier's acting career is thriving in Texas.Adrian Grenier speaks onstage during SXSW.Gary Miller/The Hollywood Reporter via Getty ImagesIn 2020, "Entourage" and "The Devil Wears Prada" star Adrian Grenier left the Hollywood Hills for a 46-acre sustainable ranch in Bastrop, Texas, a city about a 40-minute drive southeast of Austin.W