80s & 90s sitcoms. Middle class families from those shows would today be priced out of their houses.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Full House take place in SF?

yes!

SF is SO different from Full House's days...

They owned a painted lady house- those were always out of the reach of all but the most well off UMC families

What did the Bob Saget character do? Wasn’t he a newscaster/sportscaster? I was too old to watch that show.

yes, he was the host of a local morning news show "Wake up San Francisco."

Ok. I am officially evicting the Full House newscaster father from his multi million dollar home.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Full House take place in SF?

yes!

SF is SO different from Full House's days...

They owned a painted lady house- those were always out of the reach of all but the most well off UMC families

What did the Bob Saget character do? Wasn’t he a newscaster/sportscaster? I was too old to watch that show.

yes, he was the host of a local morning news show "Wake up San Francisco."

When the show started, he covered local sports, and already owned the painted lady house. Those jobs don't pay that well, either (I mean, they're solid jobs, but the 28yo at the sports desk isn't making bank).

The house was recently on the market for $6 million. In 1990, it sold for $725K. https://www.google.com/amp/s/money.com/full-house-for-sale/%3Famp%3Dtrue

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Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Full House take place in SF?

yes!

SF is SO different from Full House's days...

They owned a painted lady house- those were always out of the reach of all but the most well off UMC families

What did the Bob Saget character do? Wasn’t he a newscaster/sportscaster? I was too old to watch that show.

yes, he was the host of a local morning news show "Wake up San Francisco."

When the show started, he covered local sports, and already owned the painted lady house. Those jobs don't pay that well, either (I mean, they're solid jobs, but the 28yo at the sports desk isn't making bank).

The house was recently on the market for $6 million. In 1990, it sold for $725K. https://www.google.com/amp/s/money.com/full-house-for-sale/%3Famp%3Dtrue

His had help from the bank of mom and dad because they felt sorry for him and his house full of children.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we are now looking at these houses with different lenses. When you're 11 and watching a sitcom (at least, when we were watching THESE sitcoms), we had very little knowledge of the world outside of where we lived.

Think about it. Yes, the Full House family lived in San Francisco. But no 11 year old at that time sat there and thought, "Wow. No way they can live in that house. That would cost them $X million dollars!" (Apply that logic to any show you watched when you were a kid, really). Kevin Arnold shared a room with Wayne. That was probably normal for most kids in the 60s (and maybe also in the 80s!).

You knew what you knew, and you probably didn't really question much else. Your friends probably lived in houses like yours, and maybe the excitement was they got a new couch or car, something like that, but that was grownup stuff. Who cared as a kid if the couch was new (aside from not being able to jump on it). No kid knows the value of real estate. Zillow, etc. wasn't around back in the day. So unless you were from that market, you were blissfully unaware outside of something like "It's expensive to live in San Francisco."

Think about something simple like clothing when you were growing up. You thought a brand like Benetton was SO EXOTIC because it was European and you probably could only buy it if you visited a major city, or Europe. Most of us were stuck at the Gap or The Limited. Now, a Global Economy has changed all of that. Even something like a Goyard Bag could ONLY be purchased in Paris. Now, things have changed.

Amazing how information can change us, and sometimes take all of that innocence away.

Ha, I do remember kind of thinking this way when I watched Home Alone for the first time (I think I was 12). I wondered WTH the McAllister parents did for a living that they could afford that beautiful, huge house and to take their family of 7 to Paris for the holidays! I wasn't even thinking from the lens of Chicago real estate costs, just that they had such a nice house and had five kids and went to Paris! (I recently learned that the tax bill on that place is about $25k/year...oof!)

Oh that Home Alone house 😍😍😍 it was dreamy. So many rooms!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Full House take place in SF?

yes!

SF is SO different from Full House's days...

They owned a painted lady house- those were always out of the reach of all but the most well off UMC families

What did the Bob Saget character do? Wasn’t he a newscaster/sportscaster? I was too old to watch that show.

yes, he was the host of a local morning news show "Wake up San Francisco."

When the show started, he covered local sports, and already owned the painted lady house. Those jobs don't pay that well, either (I mean, they're solid jobs, but the 28yo at the sports desk isn't making bank).

The house was recently on the market for $6 million. In 1990, it sold for $725K. https://www.google.com/amp/s/money.com/full-house-for-sale/%3Famp%3Dtrue

What grandparent would not write a check to help their son purchase a home for his twin daughters?

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Anonymous wrote:I think we are now looking at these houses with different lenses. When you're 11 and watching a sitcom (at least, when we were watching THESE sitcoms), we had very little knowledge of the world outside of where we lived.

Think about it. Yes, the Full House family lived in San Francisco. But no 11 year old at that time sat there and thought, "Wow. No way they can live in that house. That would cost them $X million dollars!" (Apply that logic to any show you watched when you were a kid, really). Kevin Arnold shared a room with Wayne. That was probably normal for most kids in the 60s (and maybe also in the 80s!).

You knew what you knew, and you probably didn't really question much else. Your friends probably lived in houses like yours, and maybe the excitement was they got a new couch or car, something like that, but that was grownup stuff. Who cared as a kid if the couch was new (aside from not being able to jump on it). No kid knows the value of real estate. Zillow, etc. wasn't around back in the day. So unless you were from that market, you were blissfully unaware outside of something like "It's expensive to live in San Francisco."

Think about something simple like clothing when you were growing up. You thought a brand like Benetton was SO EXOTIC because it was European and you probably could only buy it if you visited a major city, or Europe. Most of us were stuck at the Gap or The Limited. Now, a Global Economy has changed all of that. Even something like a Goyard Bag could ONLY be purchased in Paris. Now, things have changed.

Amazing how information can change us, and sometimes take all of that innocence away.

Ha, I do remember kind of thinking this way when I watched Home Alone for the first time (I think I was 12). I wondered WTH the McAllister parents did for a living that they could afford that beautiful, huge house and to take their family of 7 to Paris for the holidays! I wasn't even thinking from the lens of Chicago real estate costs, just that they had such a nice house and had five kids and went to Paris! (I recently learned that the tax bill on that place is about $25k/year...oof!)

Oh that Home Alone house 😍😍😍 it was dreamy. So many rooms!

The neighborhood I grew up in all the houses were just like that house except for my parent's home. Our house was big, but not as large as the rest of the neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Full House take place in SF?

yes!

SF is SO different from Full House's days...

They owned a painted lady house- those were always out of the reach of all but the most well off UMC families

What did the Bob Saget character do? Wasn’t he a newscaster/sportscaster? I was too old to watch that show.

yes, he was the host of a local morning news show "Wake up San Francisco."

When the show started, he covered local sports, and already owned the painted lady house. Those jobs don't pay that well, either (I mean, they're solid jobs, but the 28yo at the sports desk isn't making bank).

The house was recently on the market for $6 million. In 1990, it sold for $725K. https://www.google.com/amp/s/money.com/full-house-for-sale/%3Famp%3Dtrue

$6 million seems low to me. I know that’s crazy but it does.

[Anonymous]

I love this site for TV and Movie houses. Lots of great information.

Home Alone house is covered here.

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Anonymous wrote:TV housing has never reflected financial reality. It’s no more realistic than Elsa’s ice castle.

Her ice castle is amazing

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Full House take place in SF?

yes!

SF is SO different from Full House's days...

They owned a painted lady house- those were always out of the reach of all but the most well off UMC families

What did the Bob Saget character do? Wasn’t he a newscaster/sportscaster? I was too old to watch that show.

yes, he was the host of a local morning news show "Wake up San Francisco."

When the show started, he covered local sports, and already owned the painted lady house. Those jobs don't pay that well, either (I mean, they're solid jobs, but the 28yo at the sports desk isn't making bank).

The house was recently on the market for $6 million. In 1990, it sold for $725K. https://www.google.com/amp/s/money.com/full-house-for-sale/%3Famp%3Dtrue

$6 million seems low to me. I know that’s crazy but it does.

Adjusted for unflation, the cost in 1990 was about $1.5 million. Shows the run up in SF real estate, but that was never a “middle class” house.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Didn’t Full House take place in SF?

yes!

SF is SO different from Full House's days...

They owned a painted lady house- those were always out of the reach of all but the most well off UMC families

What did the Bob Saget character do? Wasn’t he a newscaster/sportscaster? I was too old to watch that show.

yes, he was the host of a local morning news show "Wake up San Francisco."

When the show started, he covered local sports, and already owned the painted lady house. Those jobs don't pay that well, either (I mean, they're solid jobs, but the 28yo at the sports desk isn't making bank).

The house was recently on the market for $6 million. In 1990, it sold for $725K. https://www.google.com/amp/s/money.com/full-house-for-sale/%3Famp%3Dtrue

$6 million seems low to me. I know that’s crazy but it does.

Adjusted for unflation, the cost in 1990 was about $1.5 million. Shows the run up in SF real estate, but that was never a “middle class” house.

His parents bought him the house.

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The Cosby show house

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Anonymous wrote:Middle class TV families from the 80s/90s would be recategorized as UMC families in 2021. Families Ties, Who’s the Boss, Growing Pains, My So Called Life, Life Goes On, Wonder Years etc.

Roseanne & Married with Children are exceptions.

But they were not presented to us as UMC in the 1980s and 1990s.

Were your parents doctors, lawyers, architects, small business owners, etc?

I think when you were younger you did not catch the distinction. You just saw them as families like yours. But they weren't.

Yes. They were.

I was UMC (CFO and SAHM, one of those DC privates that no one on DCUM stops talking about) and no one I was friends with had a live-in housekeeper like Angela did.

She was a single mother, she needed someone else. If everyone one you knew had two parents, one SAH, they wouldn't need it. I had a friend who had a live in because her dad was a single father. UMC, private schools, all of that.

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Anonymous wrote:The Cosby show house

He ran his own OBGYN practice and I’m pretty sure she was a partner in her law firm. I don’t think it would be unrealistic for such a couple to buy that home.