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Old 02-13-2008, 02:08 PM
 
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Does anyone in San Fran live like the cast on full house? I can assume not..

First off they live in a house with a backyard. That house must cost 4 million
Second they come off as normal income kind of people.
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Old 02-13-2008, 02:34 PM
 
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No, we do not live in a TV show.
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Old 02-13-2008, 02:58 PM
 
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Does anyone in San Fran live like the cast on full house? I can assume not..

First off they live in a house with a backyard. That house must cost 4 million
Second they come off as normal income kind of people.
LOL... I used to say that ALL the time! How the heck can a single dad, with 4 kids & 2 permanent couch-surfers (Jesse & Joey, who were only briefly employed) afford a place like that?? Not to mention, they always showed the 5 ladies @ Alamo Square in the opening shot, and if that's where they lived, we're talking $4-5M EASILY for that house.

Now, let's pretend they're a real family and rationalize this... Danny was a morning show host, which probably pays in the low six-figures (unless he was really famous, like Regis Philben or something), so that's decent but not a ton in San Francisco. He also had a dead wife, so it's possible she had a good life insurance policy, or family money that went to Danny & the kids? Other possibility is that their home was in the family for generations, which is how many older people live in nice homes here - that's the case with my friend's grandparents, and I think they paid way less than $100K for their home (a gorgeous Victorian in Richmond Heights) a million years ago. Anyway, it is pretty ridiculous, but TV people always live FAR beyond their means... like, how did the "Friends" folks afford a gigantic apartment in downtown NYC? They were barely employed, let alone making millions! Guess that's why it's fantasy, huh?
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Old 02-13-2008, 03:00 PM
 
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P.S. Can you tell I was a child of the '80s? I'm actually the same age as DJ Tanner (the oldest kid), so I literally grew up with that show... it was so lame, but I still loved it!
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Old 02-13-2008, 03:19 PM
 
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yeah that show was great. Its just so weird how they make those cities out to be on - Affordable to normal people and crime free.
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Old 02-13-2008, 03:31 PM
 
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P.S. Can you tell I was a child of the '80s? I'm actually the same age as DJ Tanner (the oldest kid), so I literally grew up with that show... it was so lame, but I still loved it!
At least they used real exteriors for your shows... if there was a show based in Pittsburgh, PA -- they made it look like Brooklyn. And they talked like they were from Brooklyn.

There was a TV show called Hope and Gloria, set in Pittsburgh. Enrico Colantoni did a half baked Brooklyn accent as a Pittsburgh accent.

And we knew at the beginning this show was doomed when the characters called the inclines "funiculars". No one -- BUT NO ONE -- in Pittsburgh calls the two remaining inclines funiculars. I don't think they'd even know that's what they are.
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Old 02-13-2008, 04:03 PM
 
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Actually, I know several people that have homes with yards in the city. Some are the old Victorians that have been turned into multi-family units, but some are single family homes as well. SF has more "back yards" than any other city I can think of.
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Old 02-13-2008, 04:33 PM
 
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Maybe if the morning show was on a network he'd be able to do better. I remember hearing what KGO anchors made about ten years ago, and it was about 500,000... of course these were the primetime folks doing the 6 and 11, back in the Ana Chavez to Terilyn Joe years. I also remember hearing that Pete Giddings made about 300,000 in the late 1980's, just as the weatherman, so there's a possibility that they could, under the right conditions, have a nice house. But of course, they wouldn't have been so "aww shucks Levi 501" in their demeanor.

I also believe that it was never suggested that they lived in one of the 5 ladies, because they always showed a different house for the "exterior shots" when coming back from a commercial... I heard where the real house was once, but I forgot.

It's just like Kramer... never worked, yet had plenty of money.

Can you tell that I lived off of Full House also as a kid in the 1980's? I made the mistake of watching it a few years back in syndication... man it was awful.
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Old 02-13-2008, 08:00 PM
 
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At least they used real exteriors for your shows... if there was a show based in Pittsburgh, PA -- they made it look like Brooklyn. And they talked like they were from Brooklyn.

There was a TV show called Hope and Gloria, set in Pittsburgh. Enrico Colantoni did a half baked Brooklyn accent as a Pittsburgh accent.
LOL... my mom's from Philadelphia, and people ALWAYS ask if she's from New York. Isn't the caaawfee (coffee) a dead giveaway? For cryin' out loud, they even had a Saturday Night Live sketch about that!

One of my favorite shows, Qu@@r as Folk (sorry, they censor that word!) was set in Pittsburgh, but really filmed up in Toronto - is Pittsburgh that bad??
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Old 02-13-2008, 08:03 PM
 
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Actually, I know several people that have homes with yards in the city. Some are the old Victorians that have been turned into multi-family units, but some are single family homes as well. SF has more "back yards" than any other city I can think of.
I have a yard! Well, sort of.......

http://i131.photobucket.com/albums/p302/gizmo980/SF%20House/backyard.jpg (broken link)

It's not much, but big enough for my dog to go potty!
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