Matthew McConaughey: Why Hollywood’s Golden Boy Ditched California For Texas!

Hollywood star Matthew McConaughey said he always planned to leave Los Angeles and come back to his native Texas in a recent addition of TODAY with Hoda & Jenna. 

“This has always been home, there are multiple reasons for that,” he shared on “Today.”

McConaughey, 54 was born in Uvalde, but was raised in Livingston. He said he enjoys the slower pace of Texas.

“This is where I have a great relationship with time. Meaning 60 seconds feels like a minute, a mile feels like a mile. I like to live in a place and for a home to be a place where I have a good relationship with time,” he said.

McConaughey also expressed that “family unit is here” in the state, including his 92-year-old mother and two older brothers. He said he wanted to move back to Texas once he was ready to raise his own family with his Wife Camila Alves.

“I wanted them to have what I grew up around… There’s a solid… amount of common sense that runs through it, it’s untalked about, but we understand it here,” he said.

He now lives in Austin with his wife and three children. He said the city is “very creative” in a “state that is very structured,” where people are accepted for who they are.

“The rule in Austin is ‘Be You’ – that’s always been the rule in this city – and we should make sure that that remains the rule – just ‘Be You,’ he said.