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American Pie, Home Alone, Planes, Trains & Automobiles
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diffusionx
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Yes and no. USA is huge with lots of land. In lots of states huge swathes were developed and they put up massive houses that are often tacky and not very well built. They're called McMansions. But a really nice house like the one in Home Alone, surrounded by other large, nice houses? That's a lot of wealth. You go to places like northern New Jersey and Westchester NY and the nice suburbs of Chicago and they're very very expensive.
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My wife and I have this conversation every Christmas lol.
diffusionx
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The last one is the fatal flaw of this show, especially watching as an adult. If I was in Al's, ahem, shoes, I would be giving Peg the business very very VERY frequently if you know what I mean.
SJRB
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The genius of Married With Children is that when you watch it as a kid you think Al is a loser and his wife is a whining bitch, but when you're an adult you realize this fucking guy carries the entire family on his shoe salesman salary, they have a huge house, he has awesome friends and Peggy is hot as fuck.
We are all agreed that Modern Family is just Al later in life right???
Kelly settles down eventually, Al divorces Peg and hooks up with a smoking hot Latina, and Bud......well, we all saw it coming
Krappadizzle
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Jeeesssuuus chhhrriiisst, you ever find a room you totally forgot about? Or have a squatter family living there for a few years?
If I had a 5000 sq+ place I'd be terrified of wings of my palace left neglected with monsters moving in
TheAtomicPile
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At least for Home Alone and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, the answer is John Hughes is from Gross Pointe, Michigan. If you ever drive through that area, it looks a lot like the neighborhoods in all his movies.
You do get the impression from his written and directed movies that he may never have actually set foot outside Grosse Pointe or Chicago.
You do get the impression from his written and directed movies that he may never have actually set foot outside Grosse Pointe or Chicago.
AJUMP23
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It is big. But I know where everything is.Jeeesssuuus chhhrriiisst, you ever find a room you totally forgot about? Or have a squatter family living there for a few years?
If I had a 5000 sq+ place I'd be terrified of wings of my palace left neglected with monsters moving in
my master has 3 closets.
SJRB
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It is big. But I know where everything is.
my master has 3 closets.
Bitch, your wife has like an entire second family up in that house...It is big. But I know where everything is.
my master has 3 closets.
MayauMiao
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Probably won the lottery.
AJUMP23
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I’m just answering the op. Took me 20 years to get here.
StreetsofBeige
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Its just hollywood making the tv show or movie have a nice home so everone feels good about it. It would be weird to show a family living in a sketchy ghetto. Also, for sake of ease and camerawork, most of the time the floor/layout is shown as one big long flat when in reality most people's homes are more square shaped, but if they made the tv set like that you cant pan the camera left to right. You'd have to move in and out or change camerawork to a new room. Often, you'll see the tv show layout being [Front door --> Livingroom --> Kitchen] as if every house is lone long thin line that is open with no walls or doors. Most homes arent like that.
Most of the time in hollywood, the homes will be super neat and tidy too as if the family buys nice stuff and cleans the place everyday. And they always wear shoes indoors, which I have never seen ever in life.
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Dacvak
No one shall be brought before our LORD David Bowie without the true and secret knowledge of the Photoshop. For in that time, so shall He appear.
Y’all remember a couple years ago when they ran a contest to stay in the real Home Alone house with Buz for a few days? I wanted to win that contest so bad.
E-Cat
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I think Kevin's dad was an ad exec of some sort, so was probably getting paid exorbitant sums of money.
AJUMP23
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Snow shovel guy was doing pretty well for himself too.
Dirk Benedict
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Yeah.. she was a fucking milf. Her appearance was exaggerated and was very animated due to her attire, IMO.
demigod
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Where the hell do you live? 5200sq ft is upper class here in Texas.
Sybrix
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nush
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Sorry to tell you, the "Real" Home Alone house was a set built in a school gymnasium.
Dirk Benedict
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Daaaamn. Imagine Home Alone in this place? That shit turning into Temco's DeceptionYou're right, this is mine:
Kenpachii
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The 8,000-acre estate features 250 rooms spread out over four stories, including 35 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms and 65 fireplaces. It has an amazing library consisting of 10,000 volumes, many of them gilt-edged and leather-bound, and a Banquet Hall with a 70-foot ceiling
Dirk Benedict
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Ok. I am impressed. Especially T The library. Also lol@having a member called T The
The 8,000-acre estate features 250 rooms spread out over four stories, including 35 bedrooms, 43 bathrooms and 65 fireplaces. It has an amazing library consisting of 10,000 volumes, many of them gilt-edged and leather-bound, and a Banquet Hall with a 70-foot ceiling
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Kenpachii
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Always blew my mind how big those houses where even when i was a kid lol.
ManaByte
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AJUMP23
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The south.
I had a house sold it for profit bought a bigger house with some acreage. It is a good place.
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ManaByte
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A 5200sq ft house in Tennessee is over a million dollars.
AJUMP23
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In Nashville and probably Memphis. I am not in either of these areas. And location does affect price.
Also not a new build.
Grildon Tundy
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Average home size and price in the UK is ~800 square feet & ~$400K. Average home in the US is 2,200 sq ft and $500K.
$400,000 / 800 = $500 per square foot (UK). $500,000 / 2,200 = $227 per sq ft (US)
$500 / $227 = 2.2x more square footage per dollar in the US vs the UK.
But that's not all: Median net household income in the UK: ~$30K. Median net household income in the US: $75K (2.5x that of the UK). You get more square footage per dollar in the US, and American households have more net income to put towards homes.
The typical houses aren't as big as the ones you see in John Hughes films, but, yes, Americans can afford bigger homes compared to the UK.
$400,000 / 800 = $500 per square foot (UK). $500,000 / 2,200 = $227 per sq ft (US)
$500 / $227 = 2.2x more square footage per dollar in the US vs the UK.
But that's not all: Median net household income in the UK: ~$30K. Median net household income in the US: $75K (2.5x that of the UK). You get more square footage per dollar in the US, and American households have more net income to put towards homes.
The typical houses aren't as big as the ones you see in John Hughes films, but, yes, Americans can afford bigger homes compared to the UK.
AJUMP23
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We don’t live in an island. And there is a vastness to America that people don’t understand.
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Trogdor1123
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I always thought it was the mom that made all the money in the show.
E-Cat
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She certainly wore the pants in the family.
Xdrive05
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I have 4000 sq. ft. and I'm lower middle class. It's called having great credit and getting a fixed mortgage when the interest rates are low enough to allow you to lock in around 2%. So, hard work, responsibility and a generous dash of luck doesn't hurt.
My wife's Home Alone headcanon is that Mr. McAllister is mobbed up with Chicago organized crime, maybe like Jason Bateman's character in Ozark or something.
My wife's Home Alone headcanon is that Mr. McAllister is mobbed up with Chicago organized crime, maybe like Jason Bateman's character in Ozark or something.
GymWolf
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I thought it was canon.We are all agreed that Modern Family is just Al later in life right???
Kelly settles down eventually, Al divorces Peg and hooks up with a smoking hot Latina, and Bud......well, we all saw it coming
Cyberpunkd
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There are Hollywood folk imagination of the American middle class which probably held true till the end of 1990s.
Where is that graphic showing single woman paying less in taxes than a family of four?
I've never seen anything that really directly references MWC on MF, like another actor popping up for a cameo. But the Jay backstory (other than his now wealth) maps to it pretty well. Didn't think Shelly Long was particularly channeling Peg either, maybe just a bit. If they could have gotten Katy Segal for that role though.....particularly had her looking like she did on Sons of Anarchy....that would have been GREAT!