She buys a mansion but is so broke she has to take the bus to work. This makes no sense. Why wouldn't she buy a car and a home in her price range. That mansion was worth over $500k. How is a wellness center office clerk supposed to pay a mortgage that high?
shareIt was hardly a mansion. More like a dilapidated, century-old, upper-middle class house. Did you notice all the broken windows and flaking paint? Her contractor brother even said something like, "I thought you said it needed a LITTLE work!?" I doubt after the price was dropped dramatically that it would've been too far out of her price range, especially considering she probably got a pretty sizable divorce settlement to use as a down payment.
As for the car, they are astronomically overpriced. I just went shopping a few months ago to replace my 2008 SUV, which needed new A/C and shocks that would cost more than its worth. The note on a smaller, bare-bones, domestic SUV was literally HALF the amount my family's mortgage payment. I can see why she'd opt to take the bus, rather than take on a car note.
Well, yeah, but she could have purchased a less expensive used car at least with out needing her brother to give her one. And it sure seemed like a huge house to me. I would really like to own a house like that...not a haunted one of course. I especially liked that attached greenhouse with the glass ceiling. I'm not the OP by the way.
My major complaint is how silly then ending was with the daughter falling down the steps like a sack of potatoes and only having a few bruises and needed a sling. She would have broken her neck ten times over in a fall like that. Still, over all I did enjoy the film and give it a 3 out of 5.
I used to ask those same questions all of the time in the 70s and 80s. How can Grace afford a two story home, a single Mom on her salary. How could Alice a waitress afford a nice apartment also single mom, how could Roseanne and Dan afford their house. Something those not in the know didn't know about or understand at the time. In most of these stories these characters have investments in the stock market and budget their earnings, or they have family inheritance money that is dole out in increments from centuries of wealth that has been built up so maybe they receive 10,000 every year or five years etc. which is why some of the wealthy still feel poor and that they have to look for jobs that pay a lot of money, or the family owns land that they sell wood off of or Christmastrees or sell their items to stores they get money from that, some have oil leases etc etc. See us lowly ppl just have our jobs. The majority doesn't have wealthy families that they can lean on who are partitioning out anything piecemeal so yes when we see shows like this we're wondering how in the heck they can afford something off of their salary. And then you have the generous family members to account for also like her brother.
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