What is something that TV/Movies/Books/ETC have romanticized or glorified that are overwhelmingly disappointing in real life?

I live in Alaska and yeah… its fucking beautiful and it really does occasionally softly drift to the ground and makes everything bright even in the middle if thr night and it cuts down all the noise and makes the world slow and silent and glow… but then you have to shovel it off your porch and dog out your car, sooooo…