"Escape to the Country" (TV programme)

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Annoying.

Need I say more?

Mind you, people can be very unreasonable on Location, Location as well. They get shown a perfect house that meets all of their requirements on a very limited budget and then moan that when the wind blows in a certain direction they can hear a bit of traffic from the road. Kirstyalways looks like she wants to strangle them at that stage.

Agreed, don't know how Kirsty stays polite to the ones who are clearly driving her bonkers!
Anyway, back to Escape to the Country, I hardly ever get to see it but switched on today to find it was near me! Recorded it and can't wait to have a nosey later on.

I know someone who went on the Home or Abroad (?? something like that) programme just to get a holiday to Italy. No intention of buying a holiday home.

Good for her, it worked.

When they did one in the county I live in, I just knew they would take them to a pork pie making place

To Buy or Not to Buy showed a house about a mile away from me the other day. They said they were going to buy it, at the end the presenters said they had put an offer in, it had been accepted and they were going to move in shortly! The house is still on the market, has been for about 2.5 years, so I guess they changed their minds then!

I loved these shows - not seen for a while.

Grand designs
Location location
Escape to the country
Homes under the Hammer
To buy or not to buy

In that order.

Always disappointed if it's a small budget - like to see dream homes.

Also hate it on homes under the hammer when the chap who buys a scrap of land and has big hopes is still standing on said scrap of land on the catch up explaining where it all went wrong. Though the scraps of land are good when the estate agents come to value it and have to look like they're looking around.

Location x3 is so much better- sometimes they even actually buy one of houses they're shown In Escape To The Country they get all humpy and just go "Yeah, you've given us a lot to think about..." and that's it.

I also love that Kirsty in Location... has such an expressive face and clearly wants to tell most of the buyers to catch themselves on, stop being so picky and have some fucking vision.

Catherine Thingy does 60 minute makeover now!

Someone on homes under the hammer was wearing the exact top as me once, while I was watching it.

I really love George whatsit's new show, Small Spaces, or some such title! It's great to see people with imaginations doing really clever things with moderatish budgets and tiny spaces. So much better than those with hundreds of thousands who just make vast concrete and glass monstrosities!

There was an episode of relocation where they wanted to buy a house in Harrogate. They managed to find them a fabulous place, with a massive garden that needed work doing.

The wife was such a snooty mare. She refused to live in the house whilst it was being done up, refused to have any role in managing the project, but yet wanted her dream home...now. Kirsty looked like she could have murdered her.

When they showed them a council flat in Chalk Farm for the, 'London pad', she looked like she had just found a shite in her shoe.

Fabulous viewing.

ey'd pick a couple of rooms in someone's house and give them the Colin and Justin treatment.

I used to like that.

argghh I cant remember are you sure it wasn't 60 minute make over but I am sure you are right I don't think it was

If the idiots who appear on this show all "ticked all the boxes" and bought the places they look at the countryside would be full to bursting with alpacas.

I watch it for Jules Hudson. Bet he's fun pissed.

They always do loads of entertaining don't they ,and have lots of friends round.

They should make a reverse one called Escape from the Country, where a wide-eyed young couple from Ambleside or Leominster are shown around tiny penthouse flats in central London, with excellent night life and 24-hour cupcakeries and police incident tape wrapped around everything.

I love Escape to the Country because the houses and locations are so beautiful, it's my ultimate comfort TV. The people on it drive me up the wall though so we play Escape to the Country bingo and get points for every time they mention:

• Period features
• Kitchen where they can chat to their guests while they cook because they love to entertain
• Imagining how lovely the house would be at Christmas
• Range cookers
• Room to grow veg
• Keeping chickens/a few animals
• En-suites/utility rooms/massive guest bedrooms ie rooms that most people would count as a luxury but to them are an absolute necessity

None of them have a clue about living in the country either - it's like they want to live in a sort of countryside theme park but as they never tell us whether any of the people actually buy the houses we don't get the chance to find out how they get on.

you are right it wasn't I am sure justin called everybody darling including the builders google it cos it is annoying,

I am always amazed that the dullards who go on this programme have so much bloody money to spend on a house. [cow]

have so much bloody money to spend on a house

and room in the 'budget' to add a few hundred thousand to get the right forever home