Modern Family’s Ty Burrell is joining a growing list of celebrities who have decided to trade in Hollywood for a simpler lifestyle. Burrell left LA behind in 2020 with his wife and two teenage daughters, Frances and Greta for Salt Lake City, calling the move “spectacular.” “We moved here right after [Modern Family] ended, and I don’t have any regrets. It’s been lovely and a great place to raise the kids.” Burell told People. His family has also embraced a more active lifestyle than Burell is used to. “My parents weren’t really those kinds of people. So at first, when we moved here, it almost felt like cosplay, like we were pretending to be people who were outdoorsy, and now we really truly love it,” he said.

Burrell and his wife, Holly Burrell, have been married for 25 years. Speaking with People, Burrell shared how they make their relationship work. “This is probably connected to the really old axiom of ‘Don’t go to bed angry,’ but we force ourselves to talk about stuff. Both of us make sure that if something’s wrong, by the end of the night, we have at least had some discussion about it,” he said. “Neither one of us are silent treatment people, and I think that’s a real benefit, because I think that can be really hard on a relationship, when you don’t talk about things.”

Burrell has kept fairly quiet since Modern Family ended, where he played the character of Phil Dunphy for 11 seasons. Burrell is currently doing voice work for the podcast series “The Good Life,” which is loosely based on his childhood. Of course, he hasn’t completely written off performing onscreen again. “I’m starting to get the itch again to perform,” he said in an interview. “I’ve mostly done voiceover work and things like this podcast. And if it accidentally works, I’d love to do a second season. It was such a fun process and has so many great people in it,” Burrell added. “I hope people check it out.”

Burrell isn’t the only Modern Family alum to leave Hollywood behind. Ariel Winter, who played Alex Dunphy on the show, also left behind Hollywood for a quieter lifestyle after spending her tender teenage years under intense scrutiny. “It was just everywhere,” she told People magazine. “It was every headline I read about myself, like, grown people writing articles about me saying how I looked terrible or pregnant or like a fat s—. I mean, I was 14. It totally damaged my self-esteem.”