Apartments.
Your main character is a staff accountant at a Big 5 accounting firm.
He has a beautiful stay-at-home wife, and 2 kids, and is getting through his week.
After a long day, working through excel and filing reports, he comes home to this apartment, with this view on one side:
And this view on the other:
All on his $80,000 salary.
It’s fun to watch and I think we could all wish for such options on that paygrade.
But I am also sympathetic to the filmmakers task. If they had to film scenes in the actual apartment that family would be living in, they’d probably be unable to fit the camera and crew into the studio apartment to begin with.