General Hospital stars Rena Sofer and Kirsten Storms both made headlines in 2025 for separately announcing that they were leaving Hollywood. While both actresses assured fans they planned to keep working on GH despite relocating to New York City and Nashville, respectively, their decisions to move across the country signified a huge shift in the soap industry. In any other era, it would probably be impossible for soap cast members to live anywhere other than the cities where their shows were filmed because of the demanding grind of shooting a daily drama series.