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Post by sparklymouse on Apr 1, 2009 19:21:18 GMT -5
Personally I thought every area was rich.
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Post by greer on Apr 1, 2009 19:49:22 GMT -5
^That too.
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Post by wenonah4th on Apr 2, 2009 6:21:58 GMT -5
We know that Bradford Ct. was a bit more modest or else Kristy wouldn't have pointed out the contrast.
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Post by greer on Apr 2, 2009 8:46:29 GMT -5
Modest in comparison to Millionaire's Row, yes--but how modest compared to the average American family? Mr. Kishi is an investment banker, Mr. Spier a lawyer. All of the houses seem to have four bedrooms at least.
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Post by wenonah4th on Apr 2, 2009 9:30:08 GMT -5
We don't know how old those houses are, whether they're old enough to date from earlier in the century when houses were moreoften built with more bedrooms.
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Post by greer on Apr 2, 2009 10:30:04 GMT -5
Actually, we do. They are relatively new. They were all built by the same guy who "didn't have much imagination," and are laid out exactly the same. So I would take that to mean that they were 60s-70s houses. Houses weren't built so much alike before, say, the 50s. We're not talking about sprawling Victorians here. The presence of "dens" and "rec rooms" also screams 70s to me.
The number of bathrooms also points to this. Older houses tend not have things like master baths, and there's generally a full bath upstairs and a half bath downstairs. Only the Johanssens seemed to have only one full bath, and they had a cape cod house which was probably older.
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tiff85
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Post by tiff85 on Apr 9, 2009 17:05:49 GMT -5
Oh. Interesting. Since Charlotte's mother was a doctor, I always assumed she lived in a mansion. From what I saw on the BSC show, the Johanssens home looked like a mansion.
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Post by wenonah4th on Apr 10, 2009 5:38:25 GMT -5
If we don't know how long the Johanssens have lived there, it's possible that they lived there from early in their marriage, or that they deliberately bought a smaller house so they'd be able to pay off medical school loans, etc. I'm thinking of a relative of my mother's who's a doctor but has always lived in a house more modest than most people would imagine. Their priorities for their money just haven't been to have a bigger, flashier house!
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Post by greer on Apr 10, 2009 6:32:21 GMT -5
There is a stereotype of doctors being frugal. Also, with both parents having demanding careers and only one child, they could have figured that they weren't going to live in something bigger than what they needed, so that their time off work could be spent on something else rather than home upkeep and they wouldn't have to hire a housekeeper.
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Post by Kylie90210 on Apr 30, 2009 23:39:16 GMT -5
^ Still, it is strange the Doctors, Lawyers and Investment Bankers live in the 'modest houses'. What do the millionare's do? Where do the Garbage Collection men live? How about the Teachers?
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Post by alula on May 1, 2009 0:07:04 GMT -5
The Gardellas in Stacey and the Missing Ring and the family in Dawn Schafer, Undercover Baby-sitter both live in mansions that probably aren't in Kristy's neighborhood (at least, it doesn't say they are). The one in M25 borders on the ridiculous, really.
Sort of related, I just reread New York, New York! and the kid who adopts Sonny (the dog) lives in a "rundown" apartment four blocks from the Dakota, which sounds wrong to me. I don't know New York as well as some other cities, but I'm having trouble picturing four blocks with that big a difference in housing. Or maybe Kristy has just gotten jaded from living in a mansion.
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Post by greer on May 1, 2009 5:40:11 GMT -5
^ Still, it is strange the Doctors, Lawyers and Investment Bankers live in the 'modest houses'. What do the millionare's do? Where do the Garbage Collection men live? How about the Teachers? They probably don't live in Stoneybrook.
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Post by kleb on Oct 27, 2009 14:56:10 GMT -5
I adore this book for the cuteness factor and the star wars refrence! Ricky has his face made up at Pamela's to look like Darth Vadar! XD
Also this book was too cute! :-) But I find the fact that the parents went along with everything a bit unrealistic...but this is stoneybrook! I still find it remarkable that the boys actually wore the suits, if I was them...I would of rebeled!
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Post by wenonah4th on Oct 27, 2009 17:04:37 GMT -5
I imagine a lot of the parents were a bit baffled, especially the parents less closely connected with it.
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Post by supprazz on Jan 31, 2010 5:05:55 GMT -5
omg if this was taking place now, Pamela probably would have had a superstar circus party and gotten a britney impersonator to do Circus hahah Lol, I'm in hysterics trying to picture this ;D. glad I made you laugh I feel a bit funny now, talking about 7 year olds at 27 and their "relationships" hahah Maybe it's the Laine Cummings in me telling me not to....
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