to keep watching property programmes when all I do is swear at the people on them?

[spinaltap]

Location Location Location is on and I'm already that the househunters have £250K to spend on their WEEKEND COTTAGE.
I've got to stop watching these programmes - Escape to the Country makes me particularly annoyed: "Oh our budget is only £80000000000000. We'll really struggle to get what we need for that."

How do these people have so much money?

Methinks perhaps I should get a life and stop being jealous of those who can afford a lovely kitchen the size of my entire ground floor.

Am just jealous can't get close up to Phil

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm Phil

I do always wonder where their money comes from, but I don't find the rich ones quite so annoying as the ones with about £2.50 to spend who complain about the 'busy road' or 'being overlooked'.

Half on them are such numpties I wonder where they get the cash from. U reckon it's all Bollocks half the time.

I hate the ones who have £150K to spend and they always want a des res in LONDON with "outside space" (grrr hate that term), airy feeling rooms, in a "happening" area.

My theory is that if they're willing to put themselves forward for Location Location Location, they're the type tossers who are not backwards in coming forward so either have had the sort of upbringing where everything was handed to them on a plate or are very successful.

Hence the ££££££.

Do get some serious house envy sometimes but also can't believe some of the houses.

They're always bloody pregnant as well.

Am I the only one who thinks theres something to be said for going on Location with a fictional budget and back-story just so I can have a poke around homes of the rich?

ethelina, I suspect that all of the ones who "couldn't settle on a property" in the show, yet curiously when Phil goes back to visit them a year later, they are weirdly shacked up in a residence aeons away from their brief. I suspect they just fancied larking about with P&K for a week and never had any intention of buying on the show.

I have never considered this, just to get close to Phil...

No matter what their budget is, Kirsty will always persuade them to go over it.

They all drive me mad as well but isn't that the point?

"Well we want a fifteen bedroom detached house very close to transport but not near any noisy roads, near the very good schools but with an orchard and cider mill but close to a Zone 2 tube, in Edinburgh, but near our family in Wales. And no matter what our budget is, we will always point out some minor flaw that costs about £5 and takes 5 minutes to fix and treat it as a Deal Breaker"

ROFL @ Tondelayo

I am jealous cause I miss Phil and Kirsty

I swear that half of the couples who do the Australia / Cananda / Spain or GB progs are just after a free holiday. None of them ever choose to settle abroad in the end.

I thought these shows were supposed to be funny? Have I got this wrong?

After years of avoiding I have started watching Grand Designs religiously, it is always full of pretentious pseuds with a massive budget of unclear origin building houses out of straw and lentil. Brilliant.

A house in my village was once featured on - move to the country.....the couple wanted a period house....now although i do live in the arse end of nowhere with fields all around - there isn't a house in my village built before the 1960s.

It just makes me wonder at the authenticity of much of it.

I only ever saw one Grand Designs - he had half a 1960s mini as the desk in his office

So glad I'm not the only one who would like to do unmentionable things to Phil. I had assumed there was something wrong with me

I saw one the other week where an ugly box apparently made of cardboard and balsa wood with a puddle in the middle of it had been put up in the middle of a beautiful London street of Victorian terraces. The planning officer needs shooting.

Ahem. Planning officer here.

Believe me, balsa wood and cardboard would look better than a crappy pastiche of a Victorian terrace.

Honestly. You simply can't build them like that any more.

Disclaimer, I wasn't the planning officer in question, but I can see the beauty in modern stuff where many people can't. The shock of the new and all that. I would choose either to live in a period or architect designed bespoke modern house. No inbetweens. Local government salary doesn't really stretch to that though.

Vicky2011... I can't imagine there is anyone who doesn't want to do unmentionables with Phil

I appreciate modern architecture. That particular house was seriously ugly, and appeared to wobble while whatshisface was looking around it at the end.

I agree with Marjori - I live in a terrace of late Victorian / Edwardian houses and the end house is a 1970s pastiche which also includes a strange 70s sloped roof that goes to the first floor. Awful looking. Whereas some of the houses nearby that have been modernised have beautiful wooden cladded extensions or steel exteriors or glass boxes and they look lovely. They have more integrity as you can read the building and see its history.

Well IMO. And I am quite pretentious - my dream house would be a concrete bunker with floor to ceiling glass windows and one mattress in the middle of the reclaimed limestone floor.

Ooh, you've just reminded me!

My Aunty has her house on the market and Location rang up about a month ago to arrange a viewing this Saturday.

My mum is rather aggrieved that she can't be there when it happens!

BTW - you are joking about Phil aren't you? He's so slimy. I would rather give one to Pete Doherty.

Everyone fancies Phil. He is utterly utterly shaggable.

Will Phil be there?