Since “Home Alone” was released in 1990, many have wondered how the McCallisters could afford their house or to travel with a large family for Christmas to Paris. The question is, how rich are the McCallisters?
The McCallisters are the 1 percent, according to the New York Times. The biggest clue is the house as to how much money the family has.
The house at 671 Lincoln Avenue in Winnetka, Illinois, is a real house and is one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the country, according to Realtor.com, per the Times.
“In 1990, the house was affordable only for the top 1 percent of Chicago household incomes, and that would still be the case today, according to economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago…the home would have been affordable to a household with an income of $305,000 in 1990 (about $665,000 in 2022),” the Times reported, according to Variety.
This means that Peter (John Heard) and Kate McCallister (Catherina O’Hara) …