Relocation Decision Quotes

After living a decade in Jakarta, I chose. I chose Manila, the Philippines, for better or worse.

I'm going to take my talents to South Beach.

New York came after me aggressively and that's what sealed the deal.

When I moved to New York, I remember thinking, 'I'm never going to live anywhere else.'

When Elon was 17 and my daughter was 15, they really wanted to move to Canada, where my family is from. I said no, because I wanted to do a Ph.D. in Johannesburg, and I was getting lots of modeling work there. But Elon and I went over to visit, and while I was gone my daughter sold my home and my car and had a big garage sale with all my furniture.

Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.

Not really anything wrong with Memphis. New York is just more where I wanted to be.

I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.

There's been no real reason to move to LA. The stuff I've done for America has been done in Europe anyway. We made a decision early on that we'd find our base and not shake the children's world as much as mine.

I want to play football, I love to play football so if that opportunity is not going to be given there [Manchester City] then I'm going to have to look elsewhere and may have to make somewhere else my home.

The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.

I looked at my parents when I was 17, and I said, 'I'm moving to L.A.'

We're not in the business of taking large operations in the U.S. and moving them overseas.

And the main thing was that I wanted to live in south Florida. That's why I left the Cowboys; to live in south Florida.

My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.

I'm very cheerful about coming back to the U.K. We increasingly found ourselves gravitating towards London. There was so much going on for our business, and we had grown substantially here.

I really would move to L.A. I'm thinking so hard about it. Like, I wanna move to L.A., but I'm such a New York City girl - the fast life, the runways on the street - but I love L.A.'s vibe, so I would move here, but I'm still thinking about it!

I went to Los Angeles, because I have a manager, and - I can't remember when, but we met in London maybe six months or a year beforehand, and he said, "Listen, if you really want to get a job out of L.A., you really need to come." And I was like, "Well, can't I send a tape or something?" And he was like, "No, no, you need to come."

I had a great career in Australia, so it was a hard decision to move to America. But in 2010, I was asked to audition for the part Melissa McCarthy ended up playing in 'Bridesmaids.'

Years ago, I saw a job for head baker for The Dorchester Hotel in London, and I didn't want to move away from the North West. But then I thought, 'I've got to do this for my career,' because I was very ambitious. So I went for it and got the job.

You're the reason why I'll move to the city; you're why I'll need to leave.

If you look at only one aspect of life [taxes], maybe you would prefer living elsewhere.

At the age of 6, a teacher full of ambitions, who taught in the small public school of Biran, convinced my family that I should travel to Santiago de Cuba to accompany my older sister who would enter a highly prestigious convent school. Including me was a skill of that very teacher from the little school in Biran.

My whole plan in my head has always been, if I go a year without acting, it's time to go home; it's time to go back to Montreal.

I had decided on L.A. because I felt like I could handle the cost of living out there. It was just too difficult in San Francisco and New York.