I noticed during the nineties that Elfpunk romanticized being runaways, but I think adults were reading those, not kids.
Certainly it seemed that as long as you were beautiful and had cool scruffy clothes with glitter, you'd come out just fine, and discover magic and a posse and everything.
Holly Black did a beautiful job with the grit of being on the streets in Valiant. Non romanticized, convincing.
I do think that city streets in genre can get romanticized...even aside from fantasy, the sf does it: everyone is a twenty or thirtysomething, cool, no inconvenient jobs or parents or kids, everyone has a mod bod, etc etc.
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Certainly it seemed that as long as you were beautiful and had cool scruffy clothes with glitter, you'd come out just fine, and discover magic and a posse and everything.
Holly Black did a beautiful job with the grit of being on the streets in Valiant. Non romanticized, convincing.
I do think that city streets in genre can get romanticized...even aside from fantasy, the sf does it: everyone is a twenty or thirtysomething, cool, no inconvenient jobs or parents or kids, everyone has a mod bod, etc etc.