Bruce Springsteen was 'not comfortable' living in Los Angeles with family

Celebrities fleeing Los Angeles for other cities around the country isn’t a new phenomenon.

In a new interview, Bruce Springsteen explains his reason for leaving Los Angeles behind and returning to his roots in New Jersey.

“I was not comfortable in Los Angeles for the time I lived there,” he told The Sunday Times. “I was not comfortable in New York. I don’t think you can find photographs of me falling out of nightclubs in either of them.”

For a period of about 10 years, Springsteen and his partner and E Street Band member Patti Scialfa lived in Los Angeles.

Although the couple’s three children, Evan, Jessica, and Samuel, were born in the city of glitz and glam, neither rockstar was thrilled with the idea of raising their children among the stars.

“We were not comfortable about them growing up in Los Angeles,” Springsteen said.

“I grew up on a block that had six houses with my relatives in them, so we came back here. The kids had aunts and uncles nearby and it was a good payoff for not being where the industry is: normal life.”

Instead, Springsteen found himself at ease in his hometown in Freehold, New Jersey.

So often we find ourselves itching to leave our hometowns, but for The Boss, he wanted nothing more than to return.

“It’s certainly not Los Angeles,” he said. “I feel safe here. This is where my people are, where the folks I wrote about are. I was never a worldly young man.”

“You know, it’s funny. You grow up in a place that you weren’t so sure about for a variety of reasons. Then, whether for nostalgia or the feeling that you’re on solid ground, you find yourself returning. Now I love my home town.”