I love this TV show. I am so prepared when I need to buy a house outside of Copenhagen for $2.5 million or an apartment in venice for $1 million. I love these people. These people could walk into the Sistene Chapel, snub their noses, and say it needs a new coat of paint, new floors too. I wish they would show us how normal folk lived in your countries.
I can very rarely watch TV at all without wanting everybody appearing on screen to be lined up against a wall and shot, but with this one I’d add chili powder on the bullets.
I’ve only seen the show once in passing, and it was quite enough. But at least now when someone complains about housing costs in MPLS, I can say, “It’s worse in Yerevan, if you can believe it.”
We don’t have cable so we ain’t never seen it. We do have houses and/or apartments in Ireland, Wales, England, Switzerland, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Australia, and an island in Greece, not to mention the salmon beats in Scotland. We really like the apartment across the street from the Rrijksmuseum in Amsterdam although I was disappointed when I discovered the Vermeer exhibit was not an exhibit of heavy duty arboriculture equipment.
Who needs cable if you have anything over a 56k modem?
House Hunters International
After looking at some of the clip and some of the photos out there, I see some of the trendy designs cheap illusions of excess. I really don’t get the reinventing of the vessel sink and some of the other design trends I have seen in the hardware stores.
Darn if I can get it to work, have to wait till the “geniuses” come home at Christmas.
Oh good, House Hunters International is online. I can check missed episodes to see who else is looking for a ground floor apartment in Venice with a nice backyard for the kids and pets and that doesn’t have basement water damage.
I liked the one in Romania or Translyvania or somewhere. The house was just a shell, the “bathroom” was a separate building, no running water (unless you count the pump handle) and there were horse drawn carts going by and chicken running around.
Now that’s my kind of living! Who needs the 5 million condo overlooking the ocean? The condo fees would probably not be worth it.
This isn’t so much House Hunters International, unless you don’t live in the USA. I hear on House Hunters, that my town is the town. Monday night, tonight at 10pm. Something tells me that they’re not looking in my neighborhood but if you want to see what West Virginia looks and sounds like, tune in.
Never seen it. Here in the UK about 30 years ago there was a rash (aha…) of people buying second homes in France. You know, the kind of people who will rub your nose in it if they can. The kind of people you would haunt if you were a ghost.
It all went pear-shaped about fifteen years later when the economy nose-dived, and these same people were horrified to learn that you can’t just sell property in France the way you can in the UK. There are lots more complicated rules about inheritance that means it can be illegal to try to sell your property. Oops!
That’s one of the very reasons we didn’t buy in France.
Well, I watched the show. Snooty people who have a need for double sinks in the master bath are alive and well in West Virginia too. The show did make mention of finding a home on level ground around here. Every time we would move, our families would say, “Couldn’t you find something on flat land?” When we finally bought a house, it was actually on flat land, my Mom said, “Does it flood?”