He would be mad to leave California...I've only been there twice - once in 1990 and again in 1996 - but I love the place...it's so beautiful. I would love to have the chance to live in California.
I have a friend (apart from you lovely friends here of course!) who lives in California and she wants to be in London! I guess we all want to be somewhere else?! Lol.
Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage has taken a pair of recently purchased San Francisco parcels off the market after briefly listing them for sale.
The properties -- a 90-year-old home and an adjacent vacant lot -- went on the market last week for a combined $9.4 million, the same price Mr. Cage paid when he bought them through a trust in September. Reached for comment on the listing on Wednesday, a spokeswoman for Mr. Cage said the lots were "not on the market anymore"; she declined to elaborate. Listing agent Mary Toboni of McGuire Real Estate, who also represented Mr. Cage's trust when it bought the parcels, said, "He's not my client."
The house, which its listing called a "Gothic Tudor mansion" and is in the Russian hill neighborhood, has views of the Golden Gate Bridge. The six-bedroom home has an arched stone entrance with a wrought-iron gate, and a master suite with two dressing rooms. The house was listed for $7.9 million, the roughly 2,400-square-foot lot for $1.5 million.
In recent months, Mr. Cage briefly listed a home in Bel-Air, Calif., for $35 million before withdrawing it. He has also bought property in New Orleans and Las Vegas. The 43-year-old actor won his Oscar in 1995 for "Leaving Las Vegas"; his latest film, the science-fiction thriller "Next," opens today.