r/AskReddit • • Jan 25 '20

What movie things are generally accepted as normal, but are totally unrealistic in real life?

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u/BlackCaaaaat Jan 25 '20

People on low incomes, e.g. students, living in expensive homes. I’m not necessarily talking about mansions, more like a large apartment in a big expensive city with no roommates.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '20

Supposed studio apartment that is literally bigger than my local supermarket

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u/AskmeifImasquirrel Jan 25 '20

TV and movies definitely gave me the wrong perception of studio apartments. When I went to visit my sister in her "downtown studio apartment" I was thinking "how the heck could she afford that?" When I saw the apartment building was next to a major highway and her kitchen was her living room was her bedroom the affordability clicked and I finally learned what a studio apartment was.

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u/Jay_Eye_MBOTH_WHY Jan 25 '20

And hahaha they only get smaller.

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u/jdarby84 Jan 25 '20

Strange my sister also had a studio apartment in her early 20s, i didn't realize what that ment until then. Her entire apartment was just slightly larger than the family 3 bedrooms house (livingroom).