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== [[Truth in Television]] ==
* "Planned communities," such as [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Seaside,_Florida Florida|Seaside]] and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Celebration,_Florida Florida|Celebration]] in Florida, are particularly subject to this trope.
** It could be argued that such communities (also called Master-Planned Communities) actually attempt to use this trope [[Invoked Trope|on purpose.]] More than 25% of Orange County, California is made of such communities, with the crown jewels being [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Irvine,_California California|Irvine]] and [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Viejo:Mission Viejo|Mission Viejo]], which regularly top the FBI's Safest Cities in America list. See also [[Hollywood California]] for some useful notes on Orange County's lack of personality and vapid suburban sprawl.
*** One thing that both renders them extremely safe but also extremely monotonous is the sheer amount of these communities being started for religious purposes. Granted, sometimes the founders genuinely ARE that religious and not out to create a cult-like Wretched Hive. Both Amish and Mormon communes qualify well under that regard.
*** Or note that the [[Hollywood California]] entry is explicitly describing the way ''Hollywood portrays California'' rather than how it actually is. Orange County is highly sub-urbanized and generally politically conservative but, just like everywhere else, the people who live there are varied and pretty much like the people who live everywhere else (i.e.: they're people).
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