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== American Style ==
=== [[Film]] ===
* In ''[[The Money Pit]]'', the protagonists buy a [[Big Fancy House]] for a huge discount - and the repairs become a [
* In the war movie / comedy ''[[Father Goose]]'', Cary Grant is a drifter/former teacher sailing around Southeast Asia who has pretty much nothing but his boat and a two hundred dollar debt. He gets coerced into joining the British as a coastwatcher when old friend and Royal Navy officer Trevor Howard threatens to confiscate the boat.
* Helen Hayes plays this role in ''[[Herbie Rides Again]]''.
* In ''[[Spaced Invaders]]'', the trope is [[Played for Laughs|played]] [[So Bad It's Good|so straight it's funny]].
* In Mildred D. Taylor's YA novel ''[[Roll Of Thunder Hear My Cry]]'' and its sequels, which are set in Mississippi during the Depression, the fact that the black Logan family owns its own land gives them relative freedom and dignity compared to the other black families in the area, who are all sharecroppers and thus totally beholden to the people whose land they live on and farm. ([[Truth in Television]] for the era, obviously—after Reconstruction, the sharecropping/tenant farming system that set it was in some ways practically indistinguishable from slavery.)▼
=== [[Literature]] ===
* ''To the Manor Born'' is a [[Britcom]] about the relationship between a downwardly mobile noblewoman and the nouveau-riche businessman who bought her family estate.▼
▲* In Mildred D. Taylor's YA novel ''[[Roll
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
▲* ''[[To the Manor Born]]'' is a [[Britcom]] about the relationship between a downwardly mobile noblewoman and the nouveau-riche businessman who bought her family estate.
* ''[[Newhart]]'': Dick Loudon buys a New England Inn and fixes it up. He is a subversion because the Inn is usually shown as working well and Dick becomes something of a power in the town despite being a foreigner (this is apparently one of those towns where "foreigner" means "moved in less then twenty years ago"). But earlier episodes show some difficulty in getting going including having to get the Inn working by personal manual labor rather then hiring a staff.▼
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* In ''[[King of the Hill]]'' its revealed that Bill's family is a land poor family with a European touch to it, they used to be wealthy plantation owners, but modern times have reduced their income to near nothing causing the family to live alone in a large manor with no servants and likely a rising debt.
▲* [[Newhart]]: Dick Loudon buys a New England Inn and fixes it up. He is a subversion because the Inn is usually shown as working well and Dick becomes something of a power in the town despite being a foreigner (this is apparently one of those towns where "foreigner" means "moved in less then twenty years ago"). But earlier episodes show some difficulty in getting going including having to get the Inn working by personal manual labor rather then hiring a staff.
== Japanese style ==
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* Kagome's family in ''[[Inuyasha]]'' is obviously not unusually wealthy, but they own a house with sheds, a shrine, a well, and a huge tree in the backyard - in downtown Tokyo.
** Played straight in that her family has been the shrine's caretakers for ''centuries'' - the house is just so that they don't have to live in the shrine itself (which might be disrespectful); the sheds appear to be mostly devoted to things used for the shrine's upkeep and specific ceremonies. As for it being located in downtown Tokyo, it's generally implied (and possibly explicitly stated at some points) that the city grew up around the shrine - it wasn't just built there overnight or anything. The well and the tree were included in the land set aside for the shrine because of superstition and people recalling them as being associated. It's also implied that a lot of the money the family brings in comes from the gift shop, plus whatever Kagome's mom might do for a living. Fanon holds that the family lives fairly comfortably because of the shrine's popularity as a tourist destination as well as a site for wedding ceremonies.
* In ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'', Tenchi's family owns property that apparently includes a shrine, carrot farm, lake, large wilderness areas, and a [[Big Fancy House]]. His father is a professor of architecture, and his [[Unwanted Harem]] includes a [[Super Villain]], two princesses, the granddaughter of the chief of the galaxy police, and a super-scientist. Despite this, his family can barely afford to send him to college, and his [[Unwanted Harem]] can barely afford to eat even working multiple jobs. The one time he asked one of the princesses to ask her dad for some money, ''he sent enough gold to destabilize the Earth's economy'', which, of course, they had to send back for fear of runaway inflation.
** On the other hand, it was never shown that they are indeed ''poor''
* The Tendos in ''[[Ranma ½]]'' also held a relatively large home in Tokyo, despite having very little means of support (shown that they rent out the dojo and are called to deal with things like supernatural creatures). Depending on fanon, the money comes from (eternally off-screen) students of the dojo, or Nabiki funds it with her money-making schemes. Or in [[Lemon|other cases]], some... other ways of income.
** Their dojo is in Nerima, which is a border district and was mainly farmland in the past. Up to this day it still has the largest proportion of farmland among all of Tokyo's special wards, and thus the property value isn't on the general Tokyo level. So the large estates aren't all that unusual for the neighborhood, even if it's decidedly middle-class.
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[[Category:Poverty Tropes]]
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