Some people pay $ 100 for cable tv every month.

The TV in my house hasn't worked for almost five years now.

People buy too much into tv advertising...If you can live the life how you want, that seems to me you are retired. 

They even had that tv show where a woman flipper was running around Cleveland, holding her power tools awkwardly, while rehabbing beautiful houses with aplomb.

@John Cornelius one thing we did years ago when we were under some severe time constraints (I’m also in the tv biz and my wife is an accountant with a busy season), but still wanted to eat good food at home was actually a personal chef that came and cooked 5 meals in one day.

The "motivated seller" concept - as sold to millions of late night TV watchers - is a relic from the pre-computer age. 

There are exceptions, but I see most of them like toddlers mashing buttons on a video game controller with no regard for the object of the game.Maybe they have good intentions, but often that road leads to hell.I do not live in California, and I imagine that a lot of what we see on tv I sensationalized.

Speaking of Seattle, a local TV station put together a production that is on youtube-called 'Seattle is Dying'.

A kindergarten in similar neighborhood asked students on TV if they know what a bullet found at playground is.

I suggest you read this article and its all over the news on TV today.