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Mark Wahlberg ‘happy’ his family left Los Angeles for Las Vegas

In this Dec. 18, 2017 file photo, Mark Wahlberg arrives at the world premiere of "All the Money in the World" at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)

Mark Wahlberg has no regrets about leaving Los Angeles for Las Vegas.

“Everybody’s adapted nicely. The kids are all out at school, and everybody’s happy,” the actor told PEOPLE magazine in an exclusive report.


Last year, the actor told The Talk that he moved his family to the Silver State to give his kids a “better life.”

Mark Wahlberg hosts the opening of F45 Training at Miramar MCAs, the first fitness franchise on a US military base on June 11, 2021 in San Diego, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for F45 Training)

Wahlberg is married to model Rhea Durham and the couple has four children.

“I want to be able to work from home. I moved to California many years ago to pursue acting and I’ve only made a couple of movies in the entire time that I was there,” he said at the time. “So, to be able to give my kids a better life and follow and pursue their dreams, whether it be my daughter as an equestrian, my son as a basketball player, my younger son as a golfer, this made a lot more sense for us.”

Months after Wahlberg revealed he moved to Nevada, actor Dean Cain announced he was moving there too.

In an interview with Fox News  back in June, the “Lois & Clark” star revealed he moved to Nevada because of his issues with some of California’s “policies.”

“I love California. It’s the most beautiful state,” he told the network’s Brian Kilmeade on Wednesday. “Everything’s wonderful about it except for the policies. The policies are just terrible. The fiscal policies, the soft-on-crime policies, the homelessness policies.”

A month prior to Cain’s move, Scott Baio announced he was leaving California after 45 years citing a KTLA story about homeless encampments in Beverly Hills.

From his X profile, Baio currently resides in Florida.