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Hollywood vs. Reality

Has anyone ever really noticed of how lower class people are depicted or not depicted in TV and the movies? Have you ever noticed that no one on TV has a home that looks real or a realistic job? I mean, Roseanne in the Eighties came close to a family struggling to get by, "Should we get brakes for the car or DJ to the dentist?" but they still managed to live in a house with a second story to it and a basement. If you look at the rest of TV, every other family is talking about "belt tightening" and "cutting back," but they still manage to live in mansion-sized homes and bring home groceries on a weekly basis. Why can't we see a TV series in a real neighborhood: no second story homes on the block, a crawlspace under the floor, no garage, the laundry room is off the car port, the house is scattered with toys and dust in crevices, dad doesn't work in an office or company nor owns his business and mom and the neighborhood ladies balance jobs and favors with each other transporting each others kids for extra cash. I noticed this first in the Scream movies as Ghostface had plenty of places of hide and jump out from because his victims lived in huge homes with myriad halls. My Lord, in my neighborhood, his choice would be the bathroom that hasn't been cleaned correctly in over a year or the closet stuffed with junk or pushing all the boxes out from under the bed or risking the thick insulation of the attic. Trust me, no one is going to see any real homes on Army Wives, Ghost Whisperer or Desperate Housewives, but more on Wife Swap and maybe on Ghost Hunters.