A favorite pastime for many New Yorkers is to study and laugh at the homes of Manhattanites on television. They're all huge and the characters couldn't even begin to afford them. Those on "Friends" are particularly absurd. Those on "Seinfeld" were a bit better size-wise but you can't exactly afford to live alone on a mail man's salary.

It turns out the the folks at Sex & The City actually thought this over. The homes of Samantha, Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte are all designed down to the very last detail. I don't know, though. I still think Carrie's pad is more than she could afford. It ain't small by Manhattan standards and it seems to be in the 80's off Madison.