Think about it a bit, it's a place of interest. It's a stereotype. If they portrayed it the way it really was, it wouldn't be entertaining. I mean, which is more interesting/entertaining? Watching some group try to beat the system when the setting is a glamorous, fast-paced, over the top, extravagant, anything goes arena where the people are beautiful or a tacky, too bright, too loud, dirty, cold-hearted and impersonal gilded cage where the inhabitants are tired middle-aged or retired individuals? The fact is, what they present sells and if they switched it to presenting real life without embellishment and enhancement or downright exaggeration, it would cease to be entertainment and become what we use entertainment to escape--real life. They're selling us the vision of what we wish life to be--exciting, exotic, beautiful, and glamorous.
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