Have you ever dreamed of being so rich and famous that you could essentially pick any
spot on the map to put down roots?
Would you set up shop in one of the world's biggest cities or hide away in a remote location?
The stars on this list have done the latter, at least by Hollywood standards.
"So many celebrities live in one of two places: They live in LA, or they live in New York
City."
"Yeah."
Woody Harrelson burst onto the scene in the hit television show Cheers and has worked
steadily ever since in a wide variety of roles.
The versatile actor reportedly had a tough upbringing in Texas and Ohio before making
it big in showbiz, but he now finds his happiness, quote, "off the hamster wheel" with his wife
and three daughters in the small community of Huelo on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
The Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning star has managed to stay relatively off the
grid thanks to a sustainable community there.
He told SF Gate in 2005,
"It's a really beautiful place.
Everybody cares about this Earth and they're all biodynamic farmers and just really cool
people.
It's really a loving community, and I'm blessed to be a part of it."
Julia Roberts: Taos, New Mexico
Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts has been America's sweetheart since she strutted her
stuff through Beverly Hills in the 1990 classic Pretty Woman, but this leading lady prefers
the wide open spaces of Taos, New Mexico to the boutiques of Rodeo Drive.
The Georgia native resides on a sprawling Western ranch situated near world-class skiing.
Oprah Winfrey got the chance to interview Roberts at her New Mexico ranch in 2003 and
noted just how remote her home felt, writing,
"Julia's hideaway is a universe apart.
Yellow and purple flowers line the dirt roads.
Majestic purple mountains stand beneath a cloudless blue sky."
Johnny Depp: Little Halls Pond Cay, Bahamas
It's no secret that Johnny Depp has struggled with being famous since reaching heartthrob
status on 21 Jump Street.
As his divorce from actress Amber Heard played out in the tabloids, Depp tried to avoid the
spotlight by retreating to his own private island, Little Halls Pond Cay, in the Bahamas.
He talked about his remote retreat with Vanity Fair in 2009:
"I don't think I'd ever seen any place so pure and beautiful.
You can feel your pulse rate drop about 20 beats.
It's instant freedom."
Reports of Depp's divorce, including Heard's allegations of physical and verbal abuse,
were coupled with reports about financial woes and lavish spending.
The Pirates of the Caribbean star was reportedly spending $30,000 a month on wine, and "[dropped]
$75 million on 14 homes."
He's since listed a number of properties for sale, including an estate in the South of
France, but Depp has kept the sprawling 45-acre Caribbean island off the market, for now.
David Letterman: Choteau, Montana
He beamed into millions of homes as one of the faces of late-night TV for 33 years, but
David Letterman can be a little hard to find these days.
Netflix series aside, Letterman has largely avoided the limelight since retiring from
the Late Show in 2015, choosing to keep a low profile on his ranch near Choteau, Montana.
Letterman blames Tom Brokaw for making him fall in love with Big Sky country.
The longtime NBC news anchor supposedly kept badgering Letterman to go, but Letterman told
the Whitefish Review that it took him a while to come around to the idea.
"I would look at [a map of] Montana and I would think, 'Good Lord!
Why would you want to go?'…
The first thing that this experience brought to [me] is, you just can't stop seeing once
you're out there."
When he's not out West, the retired talk show host reportedly resides in the small community
of North Salem, New York, where you're more likely to find him at CVS than on CBS.
Jeff Daniels: Chelsea, Michigan
Jeff Daniels comes off as a regular guy who just happens to be a major movie star.
Daniels made his breakthrough in Terms of Endearment in the early '80s and had two Golden
Globe nominations under his belt by 1986, but this actor wasn't trying to escape the
trappings of fame when he and his wife, Kathleen, moved back to their hometown of Chelsea, Michigan.
"After 10 years in New York, we said, 'Why don't we just go home and live there because
the career is going to end.
It will be over soon.'"
For all the actor's pragmatism, Daniels' career has proved long and successful, and he remains
one of the most familiar faces in showbiz.
The actor has brought a touch of Hollywood to his small town in the Great Lakes State.
According to PBS NewsHour, Daniels established the Purple Rose Theatre "and his own company
of actors and technicians, launching an apprenticeship program and commissions for new plays."
For a town of 5,000 that, quote, "used to roll up the sidewalks at 6:00 on a Saturday
night," Artistic Director Guy Sanville said Daniels' theatre "has been a great draw."
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