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Dennis Quaid moving to Austin
“The train is going down the tracks. We have a lot of family there and we have a really nice plot of land,” he told Extra television magazine at the Maui Film Festival. “We have 30 or 40 friends and family members within two miles of us. It’s kind of a no-brainer.” Quaid purchased the land on Lake Austin after meeting and marrying Buffington, a real estate agent, three years.
“I’ve always loved Austin,” Quaid told us in 2005. “It has a sense of community you can’t get anywhere else.”
A sidebar on media ignorance of Texas geography: Many online news sources report the family is moving to Quaid’s native Houston, assuming that’s what he meant when he said he was going back to Texas.
Photo by Sung Park at Hoover’s
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By Tim
June 16, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
Can Quaid buy Armstrong's house, and then have the latter move to LA?
By Nichelle
June 16, 2008 4:08 PM | Link to this
Welcome home Dennis and Kimberly. I am from Dennis' native Houston and I am very proud of him! As I am Patrick Swayze, ZZ Top, etc.
I can't imagine true Texans acting like he's going to bring paps with him and his family. The man is first and foremost a father and a husband! And I can say that and I've never even met him. SO CHILL OUT!
By Michael Barnes
June 16, 2008 9:48 AM | Link to this
Boy, it doesn't take much to flush out the haters. Blaming a fairly innocuous movie actor like Dennis for the Fall of Austin is stretching it, don't you think?
By stevear
June 16, 2008 8:04 AM | Link to this
just don't drag your big-time snooty friends with you or the obvious decadent lifestyle either...the lake house is already telling....yeah, that's real Austin-ish
By Moonlight
June 16, 2008 12:43 AM | Link to this
Dennis has been saying he was moving to Austin for years. Finally gonna happen because he found someone from here who would marry him. He & Meg Ryan at one time talked about moving to Austin and raising their son Jack here too. (I worked with them when they filmed Flesh & Bone in TX & also on Meg's Courage under Fire) He & Jack have always been so close, but I guess it's going to be easier for Dennis to leave him behind in L.A. than I thought it would be for him.
By Quaidless
June 15, 2008 8:40 PM | Link to this
Who Cares?
just more california fallout to the hill country...
Houston is where you should go Dennis...hope you change your mind....
By Willie
June 15, 2008 8:15 PM | Link to this
"sense of community you can’t get anywhere else.” yes an loud drunken longhorn fans, motorbikes, 100 degree plus summers and bubbas c*m yuppies ordering $35 a plate dishes they cant pronounce in bogus euro styled restaurants...why not take Sandra Bullock and move to Bastrop? More Texas Friendly.
By Dan Cain
June 15, 2008 7:48 PM | Link to this
I think his brother is a very good actor.
By Eyebeam
June 15, 2008 6:06 PM | Link to this
Welcome home, y'all. See you around.
By texmex
June 15, 2008 5:46 PM | Link to this
Hey Dennis make a hit movie and dont just be another rich caucasian on the Lake!!!
By Joy
June 15, 2008 4:00 PM | Link to this
WELCOME HOME!!!
Austin is indeed the best place to live not only in Texas but world wide. So Welcome Home to the Quaid Family.