New Delhi, June 14 -- Dennis Quaid, who left Los Angeles for Nashville in 2020 with his wife Lauren Savoie and has spent the half-decade since as one of country music's more visible Tennessee transplants, told Fox News Digital this week that the city he called home for more than four decades has "gone downhill," framing his exit as part of a broader Hollywood-to-South migration he characterized as "thousands" of people leaving.

"It used to be such a great town and the '90s was nice," Quaid, 72, said in the interview, recorded at Nashville's CMA Fest. "And then it's been kind of going downhill, and I feel like people pay these taxes for no services." The actor pointed in particular to fire response, an issue he said hit close to his Brent...