I read that he stated that he didn't want to live there because he was afraid of being robbed...Apparently it was supposed to be funny...I thought it was...
Pope Francis says he has no wish to live in the apostolic apartments inhabited by previous pontiffs “for psychiatric reasons”.
“Why don’t I go to live in the Apostolic Palace? For psychiatric reasons!” Francis told students from Jesuit schools at the Vatican.
“I need to live with other people. I don’t think it would be good for me to live alone,” the 76-year-old Pope said.
http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/pope-francis-shuns-papal-house-for-psychiatric-reasons-377045