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Posted : 2/1/2007 9:27:56 PM

ORIGINAL: chelsea_b

in manhattan a studio costs that much

I'm sorry, but this made me laugh hysterically. You can't even get a studio here in Southern California for 800 or 900 a month (well, you can, but it'll be in the ghetto. []). But Labcrab already responded with NYC prices...

Well then i think that the person i knew from NYC got a really good deal for her studio [

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Raja19

Posted : 2/1/2007 11:41:38 PM

How funny my mom was just talking to me about this and especially on Super Nanny, how they also have nice homes and big ones too!!
Also has anyone else realized the parants are never Divorced???

Doesn't it seem like parents that are still together should have better behaved children, then single parents???

gayle

Posted : 2/2/2007 2:33:38 AM

Doesn't it seem like parents that are still together should have better behaved children, then single parents???

not necessarily, i was a single parented child for most of my childhood, and i was extremly well behaved, for the most part.

i can see how having both parents would could cause "bratty child syndrome", usually one parent babies the child, whereas my mom was very strict with me and i had no one to run to when she said no.

i noticed that alot of the reality shows are in fairly well of homes. extreme makeover home edition used to anger me, alot of the houses they knocked down i would give anything to have had.
one of the nanny shows recently had a family in hawaii that had 2 kids sleeping in the living room because it was a 1 bedroom house. i don't really know how it was setup or anything though, my dad had told me about it because we were having this exact same discussion.

Raja19

Posted : 2/2/2007 3:15:39 AM

gaylemarie- Yes thats true I (am) raising in a single parent household and I was always much less bratty then my other friends and other class mates.

One thing that bugs me about Extream Makeover Home Edition is that I think they should give them more modest homes, then these extravegant homes, and then they could do more familes' homes. Like why not make them nice homes but do they have to be totally customed and huge???

angelabarry

Posted : 2/2/2007 7:41:35 AM

Extreme makeover did a house here in Maine for a family where the husband had lost an arm in a lobstering accident.
I heard that the house was so big, that he couldn't afford to pay the taxes on it, nor afford to heat it, so he ended up selling it and buying a smaller house more like the one he had before.
I think building smaller, more reasonable homes would be a better idea, but I guess it wouldn't make for as good television.

snownose

Posted : 2/2/2007 8:17:10 AM

I think building smaller, more reasonable homes would be a better idea, but I guess it wouldn't make for as good television.

It's all about the ratings[

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labcrab

Posted : 2/2/2007 8:47:24 AM

I'm sorry, but this made me laugh hysterically. You can't even get a studio here in Southern California for 800 or 900 a month (well, you can, but it'll be in the ghetto. []). But Labcrab already responded with NYC prices...

Well then i think that the person i knew from NYC got a really good deal for her studio []

Espencer, your cousin lived in The Bronx though, no? No offense to anyone living in the Bronx, but it's certainly NOT Manhattan in terms of cost of living.

Back OT - the bottom line with these shows is ratings!!! Extreme Makeover Home HAS to build an extravagant, completely over the top house in order to woo viewers. The Nanny shows.. Lets face it, they're trying to appeal to the middle class audience, the ones with the spoiled kids! Oh and the swap shows (Wife Swap or whatever), ever notice that they always swap the high income suburbs with the low income small towns? It makes it more interesting. Everyone is dying to see how the privileged princess will deal with living like a "normal" person for a week!

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