I mean assuming the 40K on shoes isn't an exact figure, the rent figure could be off considerably without really changing much. It sounds like the character probably makes like 100K and spends money on shoes instead of saving I never watched the show thoughhttps://twitter.com/Sharronica/status/1312910456160485376 …
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
This is a good thought for people talking budgets about fictional characters generally but these figures come from an episode where Carrie specifically is going over her finances in detail with her friends to try to count everything up accurately for the first time in her life
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Because she desperately wants to get out from under her landlord and is shocked to step back and think about the fact that she is in fact a famous celebrity whose career is the envy of most of her colleagues yet she has so little financial freedom
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Anyway the apartment is rent control This is a typical dodge in NY-set TV shows to explain exactly this kind of situation where someone seems bizarrely "house rich cash poor" but I mean it does happen irl, it's a kind of winning the lottery thing
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
Realistically if you were in that situation you really should just never move Like that's objectively better than owning your own place No matter how much of a passive aggressive ass your landlord is (I mean that's exactly why he'd be an ass and trying to pressure you to move)
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
But Carrie was dead set on "finding her freedom" and moving to a place she could own anyway Because, well, the show is about her being incredibly entitled The resolution in that episode was Charlotte just straight up giving her the money to buy a condo with
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BootlegGirl
The thing I picked at when the show was a thing that people insisted on talking to me about, was Carrie is a reasonably famous writer who has a column about her dating life in the mass media of the day. Why would anyone take the chance on her when she's gonna rinse you?
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Replying to @Teknogrot @BootlegGirl
The question "Do all the people in Carrie's life actually read the columns she writes about them" is one of those fundamental problems with the premise like "Does anyone actually watch the documentary footage they're shooting on The Office"
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It's why they seem to kind of vacillate from episode to episode over how famous and successful she actually is and whether a random New Yorker can be expected to have heard of her
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This isn't super far from teh premise of Seinfeld.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
I thought it was pretty explicit that Jerry isn't meant to be "Literally Jerry Seinfeld, just as famous as he is in the present day in real life", I thought he was meant to be a mix of Seinfeld and Larry David both at earlier points in their careers.
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