his podcast<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday. <\/p>\n\u201cSo, you go to the beach, you\u2019re hanging out, you\u2019re going snow skiing, you get to eat an In-N-Out burger, you get to get some, you know, hot dogs downtown in Hollywood. It\u2019s great. You\u2019re having a good time.\u201d<\/p>\n
But he said once his kids got out on their own, they realized how expensive it is in the Golden State.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey realize how terrible the\u00a0politics\u00a0are and all of the other things that make it difficult to raise a family there,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
Kirk Cameron praises Nashville\u2019s \u2018good values\u2019 after he ditched his life in California over the cost of living and politics. Kirk Cameron \/ Instagram<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so all of a sudden it\u2019s like, \u2018Oh my gosh, we gotta move. We gotta go someplace where we can actually thrive and maybe even just survive.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
After having mentioned earlier that he was missing California\u2019s weather, Cameron said he hoped to return someday, \u201cbecause pound-for-pound, I think California has just so much to offer. Although Tennessee is getting better.\u201d<\/p>\n
He added that people are \u201ccoming from New York and California\u00a0like crazy to Tennessee, especially this middle Tennessee Nashville area. It\u2019s pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actor said once his kids got out on their own, they realized how expensive it is in the Golden State. Adam Carolla \/ YouTube<\/p>\n
Homeless people are seen at Skid Row on May 20, 2026 in Los Angeles. Ringo Chiu<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s\u00a0so many creatives here\u00a0that have good values. They love their family,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019re proud of their country \u2014 and the whiskey is great. So, if you like whiskey and hot chicken, Nashville is the place to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 55-year-old grew up in\u00a0Los Angeles\u00a0before rising to fame as a teenager on \u201cGrowing Pains.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kirk Cameron says he left his native California for\u00a0Tennessee\u00a0two years ago because of its liberal policies and high…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,967,139137,14906,572],"class_list":["post-337161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-entertainment","tag-kirk-cameron","tag-nashville","tag-tennessee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}