Fizzbuzz wrote:Well, they all have different kinds of houses. Rainbow Dash's house is made of clouds and floats on the outskirts of Ponyville, Applejack lives in a barn with her siblings and grandmother, Rarity's house is also the heart of her business operations, Twilight Sparkle used to live in a tree and now lives in a crystal castle made by a magic tree, and Fluttershy has perhaps the most "normal" house out by the edge of the Everfree Forest. Compared to them, is it really that odd for Pinkie Pie to live right above the city's hottest bakery and social venue?
If anything, I think Fluttershy's house is the strangest, if only because it's not too clear how she affords it. The other five have very obvious careers (apple farmer, queen of a burgeoning fashion empire, baker and party planner, Wonderbolt, and princess of friendship) but we still don't quite know what Fluttershy does for a living.
I swear we went over this before.

Given a Library by a Princess, now lives in a giant magical castle/library given to her by a Tree. No payment, it's all magic and Spike.

See Above.

Works for the weather service, probably just scraped up loose clouds and made a house. The pittance she makes can afford her sparse furniture but mostly goes to Wonderbolts memorabilia.

Probably gifted her house/business by her parents, but actually manages to run it successfully.

They don't live in a literal barn, come on! They live on a farm, in a farm house, passed down for generations (like.. 4 generations?)

A NEET, probably had her parents buy her a house when she wouldn't shut up about the birds, bees, squirrels, and bunnies. Maybe supplements that from untrained animal care and grooming, but we never see anyone pay her.