Quote Originally Posted by Groundbeef
I grew up in an area (and went to school) with lots of kids who lived in homes like those in 16 Candles/Pretty in Pink/Breakfast Club.

Just because people have money doesn't preclude them from having problems. In some ways the money exccaserbated problems, because they were "priviledged". I think it's fairly common for people to wonder why rich people have issues, I often daydream about winning the lottery because "it would solve everything". But it doesn't. And living near very wealthy people and going to school with their children only made that clear.

I liked the Breakfast Club, and frankly I thought it was pretty spot on.
LOL. That's exactly my experience. I grew up in a lower middle class neighbourhood. When high school came around, my parents shipped me off to a school in a much wealthier part of town hoping that something (not sure what) would rub off on me. What I learned was that rich kids had the same problems as all my other friends, only often the problems were worse because people did expect more from them because of their wealth.

I also learned that rich kids could afford better drugs and were very generous with them. Which was a great irony since one of the reasons that my parents shipped me off was to get me away from that sort of thing.