Where Does Bruce Springsteen Live?

Bruce Springsteen, or as he is known colloquially, “The Boss,” is known for his lyrical rock and roll music that often deals with the hardships of working-class life. Did “The Boss” ever settle down, or was he always “Born to Run?”

Bruce Springsteen grew up in New Jersey and continues to live in the area, owning several properties, including a horse farm in Colts Neck, where he lives with his family. 

In addition to his horse farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey, Bruce Springsteen also sold a few properties he previously owned, diversifying his real estate portfolio. This adeptness with money might be one of the reasons that people know him as “The Boss,” but you’ll have to read on for the exact story. 

Life in New Jersey

Bruce Springsteen sure has a connection to the garden state. He grew up in Long Branch, New Jersey, in a working-class household. 

He said that his relationship with his father was somewhat fraught growing up. 

“When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar,” he recalled. 

However, Bruce Springsteen credits his early life for the lyricism in his music, saying that he wouldn’t have achieved the same level of success if he had only sung about happy topics. 

“My parents’ experience forged my own. They shaped my politics, and they alerted me to what is at stake when you’re born in the U.S.A.”

Bruce Springsteen grew up in New Jersey, and he chose to stay. 

In 2018, Architectural Digest reported that Bruce Springsteen sold his childhood home for the respectable price of $225,000. 

The home was the site of many formidable moments for the rock and roll icon, including being the place where he first saw Elvis Presley on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1956, when Bruce Springsteen was just seven years old. 

Mansion Global notes that Bruce Springsteen owned a few other properties in the New Jersey area but chose to sell some of them. 

Bruce Springsteen sold a mansion that he purchased in 1983 in the affluent Rumson area of New Jersey. The 6,000-square-foot home was valued at approximately $3 million; however, the exact sale price was confidential. 

In May 2016, Bruce Springsteen also sold a home for $1.737 million in the same area. 

Bruce Springsteen now lives with his wife, Patti Scialfa, on a horse farm in Colts Neck, New Jersey, but the pair also own a property in Benedict Canyon, Beverly Hills. 

The Boss and (Hail to) The Chief

Bruce Springsteen’s fans commonly refer to him as “The Boss.” So, why is The Boss called The Boss? 

Is it because he is bossy?

Actually, it is because of one night in the late 1960s, when Bruce Springsteen was touring with a band called Earth. Bruce Springsteen was tasked with collecting the band’s fee for playing at a venue and distributing the cash evenly among the musicians, which garnered him the nickname, “The Boss,” according to the Irish Times. 

However, The Boss has an exciting new venture with none other than the former US president, Barack Obama. 

Bruce Springsteen and Barack Obama became friends when Springsteen campaigned for Obama in 2008. In 2021, the unlikely pair of a rockstar and a politician did something unexpected: they started a podcast together. 

Their podcast is titled “Renegades: Born in the USA,” and it discusses the similarities and differences in the pair’s backgrounds and lives. 

Vulture’s culture critic Craig Jenkins said of the podcast, “[the podcast] unfolds like a series of porch front chats between old friends; these conversations feel winding and loose, sometimes almost too loose.”

The release of the podcast marked a shift for the medium; what was once flooded with shock jocks and comedy hosts has shifted into a serious territory for curious creators. 

“Renegades: Born in the USA” mostly deals loosely with politics, preferring freehand conversation over scripted stump speeches. Still, the show did touch loosely on American politics, with Bruce Springsteen talking about the meanings behind his songs like “My Hometown,” which touched on racial conflicts in the 1960s. 

The New York Times also quoted Barack Obama’s comments from the podcast on his predecessor, as he said, “I’d had to watch a presidential successor who was diametrically opposed to everything I believed in.”

The podcast deals with challenging subject matter, but if anyone is up to the challenge, it is those two renegades. 

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