While Bitlife is rather unrealistic in most aspects, there are sometimes surprisingly accurate depictions of your (mis)fortunes.
- Having a criminal record makes it much harder to get jobs, due to the belief that such a person will relapse back into their life of crime, even if they're making a genuine effort to reform themselves.
- Politics is just as much about good publicity as it is about your intentions. Tarnishing your opponent's reputation and having good PR can go a long way to endearing yourself to possible voters.
- Kids Are Cruel sometimes for no reason. Bullies will find any excuse to pick on others and they'll always exist, even in the workplace. Fighting back or telling adults isn't always helpful, and can make you look bad in their eyes.
- Supporting an LGBT family member will always give you positive appreciation from them, due to the stress and stigma that can occur from coming out of the closet. Feeling validated removes almost all that stress and even if you weren't on good terms with them, their view of you will be greatly improved.
- Step parents and step siblings don't always get along. This can be due to the lack of biological relationship and resentment about helping raise someone else's child. While the interactions are usually Black Comedy, the hostility is sadly not unheard of in Real Life.
- Childhood romances don't tend to last long. Children and teens aren't usually the best at long term plans and are still figuring themselves out, and relationships at this age can end for the pettiest and dumbest reasons.
- Unprotected sex isn't a good idea. Your character does not have STD Immunity and will get their health negatively impacted if they continue this. The risk of pregnancy is also there, so expect to bear or have many children if your life consists of dozens of one night stands.
- Confronting strangers isn't always the best idea. People can be aggressive or on drugs and behave erratically. The police aren't always the most helpful, and could turn on you for reporting altercations, even arresting you for Killing in Self-Defense.
- Drugs Are Bad. Period. Drugs in bitlife increase the risk of addiction and can severely reduce someone's health. Heroin and meth will almost always kill the player in a few years.
- Wild animals are dangerous. Confronting a lion, tiger, crocodile, bear, or gorilla will almost always end in your character embracing a bad case of Too Dumb to Live.
- The legal system is flawed. A mass murdering mobster drug dealing troublemaker can become a Karma Houdini with enough money. The police are sometimes corrupt, and will occasionally accept bribes, though like in real life, most officers will do their job and arrest you for bribery as well.
- The mob is cutthroat. Any signs of betrayal or insubordination are dealt with harshly and swiftly, with fatal consequences. Lifelong imprisonment or death are as common in the criminal underworld as making huge amounts of money.
- It's just as hard to make money in the real Italian Mafia as it is in this game. In a real Mafia family, the bosses don't pay you to help them with their businesses (at least not regularly); you pay them to help you with yours. The Mafia is essentially a criminal guild that only provides protection and connections; every mobster has to have his own source of income and give a percentage of it back to the bosses for the privilege of being under their umbrella. This is reflected in-game by the fact that lower-ranked mobsters only get to keep a small percentage of everything they earn, despite being the ones who do everything and take all the risks. The difficulty in climbing rank is also very accurate to real life, as it's not unheard of for gangsters to spend 20 years as associates before getting made.
- Looking up your character's symptoms on the web will almost always result in your character thinking they have something much worse than they really do. Unless you really are terribly, terribly sick.
