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They have the wealth and wherewithal to live anywhere they choose, and yet some celebrities are quite happy residing in the place where they were born and raised, or at least maintaining close and personal roots with the destination.
There's something about the familiarity and the warmth of a hometown that certain celebrities value greatly, despite the luxurious locations they could invest in. So, who hasn't strayed too far from home?
Click through and discover the stars who stayed local.
Steve Buscemi was born and raised in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, in 1957, and has never really left.
Although Jeff Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, his family moved to Chelsea, Michigan, when he was still a baby. The actor has lived there ever since.
Mary Steenburgen was born in Newport Arkansas, not far from Little Rock, where she now lives with her husband, fellow Hollywood star Ted Danson.
The Australian A-Lister calls Sydney his home, which is where he was born in 1968.
Uber smooth Canadian crooner Michael Bublé comes from Burnaby in British Columbia, his birthplace and home base.
Where else but Los Angeles for Kim Kardashian? She was born in the city in 1980 and despite her recent split with husband Kanye West is set to keep living in the Hidden Hills mansion they shared.
Tennis ace Rafael Nadal plays and wins all over the world but still lives in Manacor on Mallorca, one of the Balearic Islands, where he was born in 1986.
A native New Yorker, Robert De Niro has lived and worked in the Big Apple for decades. He was born in Manhattan and while he does own a house in Gardiner in rural New York, it's the city he's most closely associated with and where he co-founded the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival.
UK actress Helena Bonham Carter was born in the London borough of Islington. She lived with film director Tim Burton in the British capital for several years before their separation in 2014, but the actress still calls her birthplace home.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1930, Warren Buffett, one of the wealthiest individuals in the world, has lived in the same city all his life.
Born in Los Angeles in 1975, Angelina Jolie spent some of her childhood in New York state. But the City of Angels has always been her home.
Chicago, Illinois, is where John Cusack has always lived. The actor was born in Evanston, which is 19 km (12 miles) north of the city's downtown district.
Hammersmith in London is where Helen Mirren hails from. And she hasn't moved far. The actress today lives in a 19th-century Georgian townhouse in London's trendy Docklands district.
Born in Los Angeles, Leonardo DiCaprio is a Californian through and through. His primary residence these days is reported to be in the Hollywood Hills enclave of Los Feliz. But he also chills out on occasion at a beach house in Malibu.
Work commitments mean that Reese Witherspoon spends much of her time in California. She was in fact born in New Orleans, but these days this southern gal calls a traditional country mansion in Nashville, Tennessee, home.
Jude Law hails from Lewisham in London but now lives in the rather more upmarket neighborhood of Highgate.
Brentwood, a Los Angeles neighborhood well known as celebrity hangout, is where LA native Gwyneth Paltrow resides. She was raised, however, in Santa Monica, which is just down the road really.
West London's White City area is where Hugh Grant entered this world, in 1960. Today he lives in considerably more style in a six-bedroom house in Chelsea.
Marshall Bruce Mathers III, otherwise known as Eminem, originally hails from Missouri. During his childhood the family regularly shuttled between St. Joseph, his birthplace, and Detroit, Michigan. The rapper now lives permanently in Rochester Hills, a wealthy suburb of Detroit.
Another southerner, Justin Timberlake originally hails from Memphis, Tennessee. After spending several years in Los Angeles making a name for himself, Timberlake returned to Tennessee and purchased a property in Leiper's Fork, which he named "Millville" in honor of his childhood Memphis suburb of Millington.
Christian Slater is a native of New York City and has a home in Manhattan. But he also has a soft spot for Miami, and shares his time between the two locations.
Ben Stiller was born in New York City and raised on the Upper West Side, a neighborhood still very close to his heart. He, too, has chosen to make "the city that never sleeps" his home.
The Jonas brothers—Kevin, Joe, and Nick—were all raised in New Jersey, although it's only Kevin who was actually born there and who still lives there.
Pitbull remains close to his Miami, Florida roots. He grew up in the city's Little Havana neighborhood where the rapper still currently involves himself with educational and social activism initiatives.
While Washington, D.C. is where actor and comedian Dave Chappelle was born, he spent much of his childhood in Yellow Springs, Ohio. It's now where Chappelle and his family call home.
Minneapolis, Minnesota-born Prince never left his hometown. His Paisley Park residence served as his business hub and recording studio. And it was where he died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl aged 57 on April 21, 2016.
Canadian rapper, singer, songwriter, and actor Drake was born and raised in Toronto, Canada, where he has lived ever since.
Known for playing Khal Drogo in the first two seasons of the HBO fantasy drama series 'Game of Thrones' (2011–2012), Honolulu-born Jason Momoa has remained close to his roots. In 2019 he returned to live in Hawaii, but still maintains a home in Topanga, California.
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