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Patricia Heaton explains why she left Los Angeles for Nashville in podcast interview

Actress Patricia Heaton explained why she left Los Angeles during an interview with Dave Rubin, citing homelessness, taxes, crime and having filmed outside of LA for recent projects.?

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Actress Patricia Heaton explained why she left Los Angeles in a podcast interview Monday, citing crime, homelessness and high taxes.

Heaton spoke to host Dave Rubin on "The Rubin Report" about filming her movie "Unexpected" in Oklahoma and said she had also worked outside Los Angeles.

"We had filmed it in Oklahoma, and then we were filming something somewhere else, and it was outside of LA. And we just thought that the taxes are high. The crime is high. The homelessness is high, and we're not working in LA as much as we're working outside of LA. So, why don't we leave?" she told Rubin.

"And so we just said, ‘Let’s go to Nashville because we were familiar with it.’ We had friends there and, you know, we really haven’t looked back.

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"And when I go back now, I think, ‘Does it feel different to me because I’m not working here anymore or has it really changed?’ And I think there is a little bit of a sadness about it that I think is real, and it’s not just because of my experience," Heaton added.

She said a lot of writers from her previous shows — "Everybody Loves Raymond" and "The Middle" — left and went back to their hometowns.

"We just got an email from a writer saying, 'You got out at the right time,'" Heaton said. She noted that there were now sound stages in LA that were empty. 

"Where we shot ‘The Middle,’ which is on Warner Ranch, which is around the corner from Warner Brothers. And it used to house like the ‘Walton’ house and the ‘Lethal Weapon’ house and the ‘Bewitched’ house and the ‘Friends’ Fountain was all there. And that was all razed to the ground, and they built a ton of soundstages. And then the pandemic happened and the strikes all happened, and there's just a bunch of empty soundstages there now," she said.

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