Dennis Quaid Left Los Angeles Because It Was ‘Going Downhill’: People Pay Taxes ‘for No Services’

Dennis Quaid is looking back on his decision to say goodbye to Los Angeles.

“It used to be such a great town and the ’90s was nice,” the actor, 72, told Fox News on Saturday, June 6. “And then it’s been kind of going downhill and I feel like people pay these taxes for no services is what it gets down to.”

The Parent Trap star and his wife, Laura Savoie, relocated to Nashville, Tennessee amid the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. However, he still owns a home in Brentwood, California — which he was forced to evacuate during the devastating Palisades fire in January 2025.

“The fire happens and it kind of exposes all those things that go on that should have been taken care of. So people are — people are angry, half angry and they’re half kind of feel like giving up, to tell you the truth,” he told the outlet. “I’m just one of thousands who have left, and I don’t know, I hope the town comes back. I really do.”

Quaid, who endorsed former reality star Spencer Pratt during the recent mayoral election in Los Angeles, previously told Variety that Hollywood lost its “sense of community.”

“It’s always been about people in their cars, but today it’s even more so. People stay in their trailers, they’re on their phones. There’s not the same kind of communication there once was. LA has been very good to me, and I have great friends. But it is hard to make friends. There is a lot of self-involvement,” he said in 2023. “In Nashville, you know your neighbors. People come to Hollywood to reinvent themselves. Playing a role. People come to Nashville to create music where you have to be yourself. So, you become more of yourself. And that’s reflected in life here.”