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California, and rates of alcoholism, suicide, and divorce were still above average. However, Marin's reputation for leisure and a "loose swinging lifestyle" had given way to "stress", "hyper-intensive parenting, frazzled dual-income families, exhausting commutes". The article notes, "In many ways, we haven't progressed from how we were depicted in 'I Want It All Now.' But what's missing is our sense of fun, our sense of humor."
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noted some similarities between the Marin County of 2019 and the Marin of 40 years earlier that was presented in the program. The county was still a place of great physical beauty, with a wealthy population. Housing prices were still very high, the number of therapists per capita were the highest in
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published a point-by-point rebuttal of claims raised in the program, arguing, among other things, that key scenes were staged, that interviews were deceptively edited, statistics cited in the program were misreported, and that the lifestyle presented in the program represented only a small minority
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responded that the program was "substantially without error," but that there were "a couple of places where something might have been made clearer." Edwin Newman also defended the veracity of reporting by NBC News, stating, "We were not offering a view of Marin County as a whole....We pointed that
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referred to him as a "poor, misguided, Marin County hot-tubber". After receiving criticism for the remark, Bush responded, "I apologize. I am chastened and will never use 'hot tub' and 'Marin County' in the same sentence again."
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Brad Gulko, one of the children interviewed in several places in the program re-emerged years later under unusual circumstances. In 2020, it was found that Bob Gulko was not Brad Gulko's
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