Laravel 5.0 - Calling the use in basecontroller?

Here is my Controller.php that all the other Controller extend from. I was hoping to do that

<?php

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\User;
use App;
use URL;
use App\City;

use Illuminate\Foundation\Bus\DispatchesCommands;
use Illuminate\Routing\Controller as BaseController;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Validation\ValidatesRequests;

abstract class Controller extends BaseController {

    use DispatchesCommands, ValidatesRequests;

}

But looks like it doesn't work. I need to call use App\User in each controller that uses it even if it is extending the basecontroller.

This doesn't work:

<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;

class HomeController extends Controller { .... }

But this does:

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use App\User;
use App;
use URL;
use App\City;

class HomeController extends Controller { .... }

Is this normal? Does it has to be that painful :-) There are some Classes used in every Controller, it is just a bit surprising I need to call them every time.

Note: I am migrating from 4.2 and want to go with namespaces Thanks!

via Chebli Mohamed