Ever noticed how people on TV own houses bigger than most peoples? And tv never follows the story of someone who buffs floors, or cleans windows.

This must be why tv tells us to be unrealistically happy all the time.

The only people working dead end jobs I can think of on tv are the guys in Fight Club, and Rey from Star Wars before things get moving.

I’m content with my two up-two down, terraced house because it’s home and a 15 minute walk from the beach. But I’ll never have a spacious, well decorated home that TV says everyone has because that’s not the real world.

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DrWatson · 70-79, M

In the early days of television, back in the 1950's, there were a few shows like that.

I remember Abbot and Costello, in which the two characters were regularly broke and often had to deal with a landlord threatening to evict them due to unpaid back rent.

The Honeymooners was a show about blue collar people, living in a very modest apartment.

But shows like that are a thing of the past.

And then there was the movie "Fatal Attraction", made in 1987. It was essentially a remake of a 1971 movie "Play Misty For Me". But the earlier movie was about working-class characters, while the remake was about rich people.