Miranda Hobbes is a career-minded lawyer with extremely cynical views on relationships and men. In the series it is said that she graduated Harvard Law School in 1990, yet in SATC2, Carrie explains that she met Miranda in 1986/1987 in New York, when she heard Miranda crying in the next changing room at a department store (an allusion to her earlier masculine and questionable fashion sense). As Harvard Law School is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts it is unlikely she yet lived in NYC three hours away, unless she was simply in New York at the time and was friends with Carrie during her last year of college. It is more likely a mistake of the writing. Miranda is from the Philadelphia area, and is Carrie's best friend, confidante, and voice of reason. In the early seasons, she is portrayed