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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.[b] 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!"[/b] (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. [/quote]
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!)[/quote]

Oh that Home Alone house 😍😍😍 it was dreamy. So many rooms! [/quote]

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. :(  [/quote]

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