Forget people in other countries, those shows gave _their target audiences_ (young GenX and old Millennials, who mostly didn't live in NYC, when they were 15-27

Forget people in other countries, those shows gave _their target audiences_ (young GenX and old Millennials, who mostly didn't live in NYC, when they were 15-27) unrealistic perceptions of the American standard of living. The scale of the unreality of living like that in NYC didn't register for me until I moved there (with a much more lucrative job that still didn't make that lifestyle a reasonable decision).