Is the premise of the show realistic ?

HELL NO!

But its still a good show, I guess.

Its different. I respect anything that has the ball to be different on TV and its funny sometimes. The premise itself isn't that unrealistic but all the characters are.

The biarre situations they find themselves in and how they react to them is all overly surreal on purpose. It reminds me of Daria.

The premise of the show is completely unrealistic. I live in the US and I honestly don't get it.

We typically move to the suburbs for less crime, better schools, more house for the $ and the sometimes mistaken belief that it's better and safer for our children. I don't think that George will really have a hard time with Tessa wanting to get back at him by being a "bad" kid. One main reason is because she has plans for her life and acting out would only make her goals more difficult to achieve. As the show goes on you'll see how George and Tessa's relationship changes but not without some hard times and arguments as every family goes through to some degree.

I live and always have lived in suburbs in our southern state (big difference in people and lifestyles up north and those in the south. Even our terminology is different.) and in many ways it is like this but the show definitely makes it larger than life. It's really a tongue in cheek show of exaggerated scenarios of life in the suburbs. However moving to the suburbs is so popular that urban sprawl has become a big issue. Some cities are smart enough to invest in urban renewal of the downtown areas. Downtown and midtown are extremely popular areas for liberals, with old but distinctive homes. Yuppies love to live downtown/midtown in what were factories 100 years ago. LGBT's and "tree huggers" live in midtown where they are rarely judge. It isn't a "lovely" area but it's certainly more interesting, has more arts available and walking is possible there. In my city the renewal brought back so many people that the city built a yuppie community right on the river bank and updated old houses which are now 2,3 x's more expensive than outside of the city and are typically smaller. Before now the bluff houses were exclusive to the rich but now that the yuppie community has been built and the area slightly more affordable people are enjoying living there and more and more people are choosing to return to the city. It is a status symbol to live there now but was the east suburbs for years. The suburb we live in is nice, family orientated with bike trails and parks. The burbs even have the largest park in the state and not too far with a 45 minutes commute. They have much bigger homes and acreage for same price as a small home downtown. With a significantly lower crime rate (only 3 murders in 15 years) it's tempting to many families, whereas couples w/.out children like to live in midtown/downtown area. We bought our home in the suburbs leaving an area that was being incorporated into the city which would mean higher taxes and poorer schools. Really bad schools. We moved strictly for the later. Here many people move to suburbs because they don't wish to live in socially diverse areas. I hate being a part of urban sprawl. As for here the suburbs are safer, cleaner, have better schools and more house for the dollar. That's for this southern city, I don't know about others.

Some of the show rings true. People tease wives about being a "Germantown housewife" because they do live somewhat like Dahlia and their only work is staying trim, spoiling children and always making themselves and their homes more attractive. They do luncheon dates with other housewives and set up play dates for their children who are dressed to the nines even at a park and heavily involved with their child's schools. Where I live it is unfortunately a more conservative group in the burbs and everyone goes to church. But it's mainly for looks, status and business contactss but not too much for seeking the true worship. Burb families typically only worship high end stores, $100+ salons and high end spas.

So for me I disagree with the other posters who say it's not even in the realm of reality. Funny part is I grew up with Chris Parnell, we attended church and school together, his sister being my best friend. His family was ahead of the curve and was one of the first families I knew to move to the suburbs! Oddly enough we have gone full circle here with urban sprawl. People started in the northern area of a different state, then off to the south side, from there we migrated east which kept getting further and further away from the city. Now my family and many others are back to the same area in the north part of adjoining state that we lived in as a child. But the biggest difference between those who find a ring of truth to the show and others who saw "no" strongly is likely where they live in the US. Living in the south is a whole different world! I've lived in both and could never enjoy being up north because it was a culture shock in many ways! No matter how we view our suburbs the fact is many of us enjoy the show because we're poking fun at ourselves. I hope this extremely long explanation helps!

I re-read my post and must apologize for my poor grammar and overall writing. Words are missing or misspelled making it difficult to follow what I'm saying. I do so apologize! I'm learning that 1am post are not as clear and accurate as earlier post! Bear with me as you read it!!

I am around the same age as the actor that plays George. I really think who wrote this is his age trying to possibly write something that happened to them, but they wrote it for modern times. It's funny there's really not much internet and cell phones. Why didn't they have any issues with cell phones being used in class and princesses like Dalia thinking they can do that because they think they can do whatever they want. A big clue is the way Manhattan was depicted is very outdated. George says that he doesn't eat that stuff because he's from NY. Everyone in NY eats the vegan and organic crap. They cleaned up the area where they were supposed to be from, so I wouldn't think there would really be homeless people on the street there. The homeless people are on the subways and a lot of them sleep on the floor in the bus and train stations, like if you walk through penn station late at night near the Amtrak, it's NOTHING but homeless sleeping on the floor.

I grew up in a suburban area that was a LOT like this one. One thing that wouldn't be accurate is people who live just outside nyc, go into NYC and when you live close you don't say "I'm from NY." You say, "I'm from the city." Even in Queens we say, "go into the city" or Manhattan. I used to say Manhattan but now I say the city. The hair bump makes me think of the big hair popular in the 80s and that's what I bet it was from.

it's a comedy tv show i dont think it is meant to be taken seriously :)

"One rule: We live or die together." - Joshua Nolan to Irisa Nolan, Defiance

No, it's paper thin. According to the show they still have a short train journey away from New York. This is one show you really shouldn't overthink.