The “friends” of David Crane and Marta Kauffman are one of the great sitcoms of Hange of all time. Built around six young actors extremely attractive and talented, the series offered an energetic portrait of the X generation X of twenty years / thirty years. His characters were not necessarily aimless, but they certainly did not have it together. What they had was the other, which was an essential weekly TV Balm for souls of many of Gen X-Er crossing similar tsuris in the 1990s and 2000s.
While viewers around the world could relate to the difficulties of Monica (Courtney Cox), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Chandler (Matthew Perry), Ross (David Schwimmer), Joey (Matt Leblanc) and Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), there were aspects of these lives that were hard from Tadre. Of course, many of us knew what it was to fight to get out of it in a lively metropolis like New York (I lived there during the summit of popularity of the series), but none of us could never hope to slip it while living in an incredibly spacious apartment in the West Village. As a person who made a lot of apartments during this period, I will tell you that if a broker (which I could not afford in the first place) showed me a similar dish in place of Monica and Rachel, I would have struck them in the face for having tried to humiliate me. It is the apartment of a rich person.
How rich? This is a question that many people have asked over the years, and although we cannot give you exact figures for fictitious housing, we can stade it. Prepare to be surprised.
Monica and Rachel did not pay the market value of the apartment
According to Digest ArchitecturalMonica’s “Shabby Chic” and “Countrycore” would have triggered an auction war the second where it hit the market. So, how did Monica won Manhattan real estate? Her grandmother illegally sublet her!
According to the program cannon, the apartment is controlled by the rent, which means that the rent increases in the unit were reasonably increasing so as not to chase the non-argumentary tenant (in this case, Monica’s grandmother) of his residence and, potentially, in the streets. This means that Nana, who had withdrawn in Florida, occupied this apartment for a while and, as a senior citizen who collects social security in the state of Sunshine (like her right as an former worker American), probably did not need to invoice the market value of her granddaughter for unity.
Once you have taken this into account, you are too good in the obstacle to the obstacle to Hollywood Entertainment, like the unemployed protagonist of Adam Sandler in the beloved of Paul Thomas Anderson “Big Daddy” living in a Loft of Manhattan because he put a massive regulation of a minor accident. At this point, you should probably raise your shoulders and enjoy the fantasy, which is easy to do because “friends” was an always hilarious show with very few failed episodes. But you should always know, right? Spoiler: Monica and Rachel would never have sniffed an apartment in Manhattan of this caliber.
Monica and Rachel fell $ 200,000 to be able to afford their apartment
In 2024, the architectural digest Smart real estate concierge companyWho used the current statistics of the Ministry of Labor to determine that the occupants Rachel and Monica – who worked, respectively, as chief and waitress at the start of the series – won $ 120,000 per year. They then focused on the 12a apartment at 136 Waverly place in the West Village as a replacement for the unit (estimated between 1,125 and 1,500 square feet) and decided that Monica and Rachel should have reduced at least $ 321,429 combined to allow the right rent. If they wanted to buy the unit, they should earn $ 782,379 to cover the dollars that it would be on the market today. Obviously, any member of the “Friends” distribution could afford to buy the whole building these days.
If Crane and Kauffman had adopted a realistic approach to “friends”, they would have placed Monica and Rachel in a rail apartment somewhere at Alphabet City, which would have lent to the show a resolutely grainy air which would probably not have called on people who like the parameters of the sitcom to be aspirant. Given the circles in which the “Friends” gang has traveled, there would also have been more employment bearing and abundant consumption of cocaine. Again, because I lived in New York at the time, I would have loved it. I suppose, and it’s just a supposition, it is that NBC may have frowned in such a representation.
