Social Justice Project Bullet Point #7

Recently, I watched the well known John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The three main characters (Ferris, Cameron, and Sloane) live in the suburbs of Chicago. Ferris's mother works at a real estate firm and his father has a white collar job in the city, though it is not revealed what he does. Ferris also seems to have a lot of money. In one day he took his friends to a fancy French restaurant, went to a Cubs game, see the Field Museum, and take taxis everywhere.

First of all, why is the "perfect teen life" set in suburbia. I live in the city and I seem to be having a fairly good life. The white collar, high paying, bourgeois jobs the parents have seem slightly unrealistic. That brings me to the money Ferris carries around. He seems to have more than enough money to pay for an expensive day out with him and his three friends.