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Old 07-28-2022, 02:13 AM
 
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Marty McFly home 700K
Brad and Stacy Hamilton home 900K
Alf home 7 million
Blossom home 3 million
Angela Chase home 1 million

These are just a few examples.
Perhaps a middle class lifestyle is still portrayable but I doubt it.
I don't know. You tell me.
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Old 07-28-2022, 10:40 AM
 
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LA needs a sitcom or romcom about homeless people.
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Old 07-28-2022, 01:29 PM
 
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"Friends" were roommates who lived in a rent-controlled apartment.
The show was filmed in Burbank.
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Old 07-28-2022, 01:42 PM
 
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"Friends" were roommates who lived in a rent-controlled apartment.
The show was filmed in Burbank.
Was it actually stated on the show, the apartment is rent controlled?
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Old 07-28-2022, 02:46 PM
 
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Was it actually stated on the show, the apartment is rent controlled?
Yes, the show authors had to explain how "Friends" could live in one of the most expensive places in the USA. Otherwise, you would suspect that Monica had sugar daddies.
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Old 07-28-2022, 04:08 PM
 
Location: Elysium
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The Neighborhood on CBS is set in Pasadena

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Yes, the show authors had to explain how "Friends" could live in one of the most expensive places in the USA. Otherwise, you would suspect that Monica had sugar daddies.
When Tom Selleck showed up in their promos the thought did cross my mind
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Old 07-28-2022, 04:12 PM
 
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Boston is the same way. How do people children afford to live when they move out? If, they ever can. There are simply too many people coming to this country.
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Old 07-28-2022, 10:34 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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"Friends" were roommates who lived in a rent-controlled apartment.
The show was filmed in Burbank.
But the show was set in NYC....not Burbank or LA.
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Old 07-28-2022, 11:06 PM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Marty McFly home 700K
Brad and Stacy Hamilton home 900K
Alf home 7 million
Blossom home 3 million
Angela Chase home 1 million

These are just a few examples.
Perhaps a middle class lifestyle is still portrayable but I doubt it.
I don't know. You tell me.
A few others to consider:

-Sanford & Son (70's): Fred Sanford's character (played by Red Foxx) lived in Watts.
Median home price: Watts in 2022: $525,000
Median Home price: LA as a whole in 1976: $60,000

-Chico & the Man (70's): Chico (Freddy Prinze) lived in an auto-repair garage in East LA.
Median Home price in East LA 2022: $700,000.
Median Home Price: LA $60,000 in 1976. East LA would have been lower.

Rockford Files (70's): Gritty detective Jim Rockford lived in a humble trailer home in Paradise Cove.
-A manufactured home in Pt. Dume today is listed at $1.4 million.

-Brady Bunch (70's): The house sold for $3.5 million in 2018;

-Lou Grant (70's/early 80's): Newspaper editor Lou Grant lived in Silverlake late 70's/early 80's. But his character rented.
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Old 07-29-2022, 09:00 AM
 
Location: Northern Virginia
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I'm not sure why it wouldn't be possible. For one, in a movie/TV show the economics don't necessarily need to work out as you can always come up with some unique scenario that explains it. Take Bosch where the LAPD detective turned PI lived in a mansion in the Hollywood Hills, and it was explained by saying he got movie royalties.


Secondly, there's still plenty of middle-class neighborhoods in the larger L.A. metro area. It wouldn't be set in Santa Monica or Pacific Palisades, naturally, but then it doesn't really matter, does it? Back to the Future was set in what was portrayed as a fairly new suburban development in a fictional inland area whose location was never fully explained. You could make that movie still today.
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