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Lots of recent TV paints living in a large apartment building as a completely normal thing to do.

• Red_Leaves_Flyy 5y ago
  Living as a SINK/DINK? Yeah sure. Look at just about any show about raising children at or above the replacement rate and the vast majority are all in homes. Even the family in shameless had a home. The only counter example I can even think of is smilf.
  • jeffbee 5y ago
    Apartments are homes. You're right that families with children living in multifamily dwellings are under-represented on American TV, but that's not because they are rare in real American life. I can think of a few examples of course, like "The Jeffersons", the whole premise of which is how their success led to moving from a house in Queens to an apartment in Manhattan.
  • davidw 5y ago
    Your very language belies the ingrained attitudes we have. A single family unit is a "home". An apartment is ... something else. In reality, both are homes.
• asdff 5y ago
  Everyone does it in their 20s. Everyone likes being walking distance from the bars at that age. Few last into their 30s or 40s with kids in tow unless they are very wealthy or too poor to afford the high upfront costs of moving to a cheaper area.
  • Broken_Hippo 5y ago
    There is more to life than bars: More likely, where I am, you are walking distance from grocery stores as bars aren't peppered everywhere. (Going to bars is an expensive hobby in Norway, and pre/post drinking is quite normal). Also, you can't bring the kids to the bar in most places (It used to be legal in Tennessee to a point) So sure, they aren't going to bars. But they are going to work. They are living in areas where their 6-year-old child can walk to school. Where they can take public transportation to work. And so on.