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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PicturesOfABetterTomorrow · 41-45, M

Two things going on here.

First, yeah there is not a whole lot of working class anything in tv and movies. See friends where they live in massive apartments in Manhattan and drink coffee all day except when they occasionally remember they have jobs for a plot device.

Part of that is wish fulfillment in movies and TV, People escaping real life.

The other part is especially years ago camera equipment was huge. So you needed a bigger set just to fit all the equipment out of frame and still have enough room that your sitcom was not happening in a postage stamp on the floor.