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Original poster

to get irritated with the people on Escape to the Country

54 replies

wetaugust · 20/12/2013 14:58

They never look at a house and say - Yes! This will suit us beautifully.

No. They always have to 'change' the kitchen, or 'move the bathroom, or redesign the garden' or 'build en extension'.

Today's lot want a vegetable car, a garage fopr his sports car and a library. Makes a change from wanting a 'music room' I suppose.

They are just never happy are they?

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DidoTheDodo · 20/12/2013 15:00

Neither do they understand the concept of mud.
When they have lived through the first thunderstorm in the country, they will know what mud really means.

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 20/12/2013 15:01

They also only ever have £800k ++ to spend and can't possibly anything, the poor loves.

Bit like Location Location.

GinAndIt · 20/12/2013 15:07

YANBU.

I want a vegetable car too, though! Grin

Fairylea · 20/12/2013 15:07

Their budgets are £££!

I guess that's what makes it interesting... If they came to where we are and looked round a load of 3 bed semi's for 140k ish it'd be pretty boring but still.....!

HECTheHeraldAngelsSing · 20/12/2013 15:09

Do any of them ever actually buy?

I think they just want a turn on the telly, tbh.

It's not hard to find a house. They just want their 15 minutes.

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 20/12/2013 15:10

I like that they make them do an activity and they have to pretend to be enthusiastic about it.

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wetaugust · 20/12/2013 15:11

Ooops! Grin vegetable patch obviously. Grin

She's now wanting a quiet space to retreat to - shr and her husband are rattling around a 4 bedroom house FFS! It shouldn't be that difficult to find a quiet spot.

And they always think the house should cost £47 15/6d.

Why do people take part in this program? It is just ego-mania?

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HesterShaw · 20/12/2013 15:12

And then they never buy anything anyway!

I remember some daft bint looking round with her daft mother. They went into a beautiful house and looked all round it. It was perfect for them. And yet all the daft mother said at the end was, "It will need A LOT of work" with a cat's bum mouth.

No it won't you stupid woman. A LOT of work means a new roof, or rewiring. You mean it isn't decorated to exactly your no doubt awful taste.

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wetaugust · 20/12/2013 15:12

"Tally ho" They are off to visit the Mystery House now.

Pass the sick bag please.

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revivingshower · 20/12/2013 15:14

I have never seen one of these where they actually buy the house either.

Pobblewhohasnotoes · 20/12/2013 15:16

In ever understand people who look round the house and say they don't like the decor, as a reason for not buying it. You're not supposed to like the bloody decor, you're supposed to redecorate! It's what people do!

SuffolkNWhat · 20/12/2013 15:18

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Fecklessdizzy · 20/12/2013 15:20

I saw one of these where they went into the kitchen, which had the same ( ancient ) units as mine, and just as I was thinking " Oooh, that looks rather good, maybe if I ... " They all chorused " Ghastly! Have to rip this lot out, obviously! " Sad

Salmotrutta · 20/12/2013 15:24

They always think the bedrooms are "too small" Hmm

Even if they look perfectly fine.

Do they all want to host a barn dance in their bedrooms or something? Confused

randomAXEofkindness · 20/12/2013 15:25

It strikes me that they are deliberately negative about the properties they see to send the message to the viewer that they are worth more fyswim? Probably not, sometimes I talk a load of shite Grin

Like saying "Ooh, it's a bit outdated..." tells the viewers that they are on-trend and modern. "It's cramped" - "I'm loaded and important and therefore used to and deserving of spacious surroundings". "We could remodel the kitchen" - same as before.

When really, this particular viewer is thinking "You spoiled whiny twat, how on earth did you get £800,000?"

HECTheHeraldAngelsSing · 20/12/2013 15:26

They have to have reasons why they aren't going to buy.

I think they come up with anything. They can't really say oh, it's perfect in every way but we're total fantasists with 47p in the bank and a credit score in minus figures but we really wanted to get on the telly. Grin

PresidentServalan · 20/12/2013 15:28

I have tried to watch it but it gives me the rage!

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wetaugust · 20/12/2013 15:31

This lot today did intend to buy one of the featured properties - and then found out it would be too difficult to extend the kitchen Confused

This is where the program is a total load of wank. Either the kitchen should be so high up your priority list that you only consider houses with a good kitchen or it's so low down your list you take it as it is.
Don't say it's perfect, we want to buy and then Oh dear - kitchen's crap.

I too wonder how some of them got their dosh.

I console myself by thinking their current houses are probably tips (like mine)

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UsedToBeNDP · 20/12/2013 15:36

I think it's a case of "bigger budget, bigger wish list". The more you have, the more you expect it to buy you.

I look at £1m+ houses on rightmove (as you do) and think, "I'd change X, Y & Z" too (kitchens / bathrooms / layouts) so I can see where it comes from. Your expectations grow with your ££ but unfortunately it's not always quite enough.

Some of them are shitbrained arses though, OP

eurochick · 20/12/2013 15:39

I think it's self-defining in that the only people who go on these shows have already seen most properties in an area and found them in some way lacking and are therefore "difficult". The couple today were more enthusiastic about the properties than most people who go on the show.

TheCrackFox · 20/12/2013 15:41

They always seem to be about 28yrs with a budget of £800k. Unless they have been drug trafficking I can't understand where they have got the money from.

UsedToBeNDP · 20/12/2013 15:42

That's it, euro. They go on it thinking that the shiny faced gnome man can pull a previously unseen miracle property out of his fishing rod.

reup · 20/12/2013 15:43

Lol at barn dances in the bedroom.

Ive seen people on that or location complain about the furniture! It doesn't come with the blooming house!

reup · 20/12/2013 15:44

I never understand where they get their money so young either.

HesterShaw · 20/12/2013 15:49

The Kirsty and Phil couples are always stupidly young and wealthy.

The ETTC couples are generally retired baby boomers who spent £4000 on their semi in Surrey in 1972 and are now selling it for three quarters of a million