19 Things Australians Think NYC Teens Do Thanks To "Gossip Girl"

    Totally accurate, right?

    1. It's perfectly commonplace to wear high heels to school every day.

    2. Living in Brooklyn = social suicide.

    3. It's totally normal to have multiple school fashion shows.

    4. It's also totally normal for the entire city of NYC to be following the lives of a bunch of teenagers via an anonymously written blog.

    5. It is expected that you'll be wearing head to toe designer clothes every day and never repeat an outfit.

    6. The only way to get around NYC is via private town car.

    7. School dances are formal AF and include choreographed group dances.

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    8. ...and there are like 100 dances and parties to attend yearly.

    9. It's totally normal to marry your high school sweetheart.

    10. You can get into college without studying or attending class, basically.

    11. ...unless you're poor, in which case you'll need to bust your ass to earn a scholarship.

    12. Teenagers don't decorate their bedrooms with posters of their faves, but rather, have artsy paintings and perfect wallpaper.

    13. When teens turn 18, they're given full access to their multi-million dollar trust fund.

    14. Despite fighting with your BFF like every week, you will be friends forever and definitely not drift apart after high school.

    15. Attending a private school means you have a uniform, but apparently the school doesn't care how short your skirt is or whether your tie is done up?

    16. If you don't have a live-in maid, you're poor.

    17. Everyone drinks on school nights but rarely, if ever, suffers a hangover.

    18. Everyone has amazing fake IDs. Either that or no one actually cards them.

    19. And everyone has an amazing breakfast table laden with croissants and fruit and pancakes and orange juice and bacon but they only eat berries and the occasional waffle.