Location location location/and or other U.K. property programmes...secrets

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Sorry if there’s already a thread been reading the CDWM thread with interest...but would to know any secrets about locationx3
I would love to have a budget big enough to go on it one day but they all seem to have 500k at the age of 21 these days 🤔
Any secrets kirsty and Phil seem lovely I hope they are as nice in RL

"I read on the thread slagging off Kirsty’s iPad breaking situation that Phil and Kirsty hate each other confused" Yes, and someone who knew a relative of Phil's said it is completely untrue and K&P find it amusing that this rumour has gone around.

I’m always baffled by the short term thinking on Escape to the country. A couple in their 60s buy a massive, multi-floor property in the middle of nowhere. Maybe I’m cynical but I’d love to see them revisit these people in 10-15 years time when they’re pushing 80 and looking to buy a ground floor flat with good bus links to the nearest hospital! ‘Escape back to the City’ anyone?

Does anyone remember when Catherine Gee was doing ETTC and there was a Welsh woman on who wanted to rip out the Adam fireplace, astroturf the garden, remove the wonderful wood panelling from the dining room so that she could mirror one wall and put up a glitter ball? I thought it was a spoof at first. Poor CG could hardly contain her horror. Wish they would repeat it as I'm sure some friends and family think I am making it up.

DH always chortles when the couple say they 'want space for entertaining,' He says they all say that.

I remember that one Alleycat. It was jaw-dropping.

What an awful sick man to hunt and kill animals. I used to like him not anymore. I have never liked the way Kirsty talks to him and founded very strange the way he reacts as he seems to enjoy being treated badly by a woman. Now I get it ....not much of a man with a woman but a real man when viciously killing defenceless animals. What a bastard!

Not sure why people have a problem with hunting deer and pheasants with a rifle and shotgun respectively. It's a far nicer way for them to die than queuing up at the abbatoir after an uncomfortable and frightening 40 mile trip in the back of a lorry. @Joe66 couldn't agree more. We live in a part of the world where hunting's really common - loads of squashed pheasants as roadkill - and we actively seek game out from the butcher because the welfare is so much higher. A game animal gets supplementary feed, absolute freedom in nice conditions, and then shot on home ground (and not all are shot, either - the clever ones escape). It's as natural a death as the wild offers. You don't get middle aged wild animals; other predators get them first. It's so much kinder than the horrible, concentration camp conditions most meat animals have as their only life experience in modern factory factory farming, and most abbattoirs are brutally cruel places. Will never fathom how people happily feed their kids KFC or McDonalds, but pearl-clutch over hunting. Vegans, and fair enough. But otherwise? Really odd.

We just saw last week’s episode as we live in Bromley. The budget would get them what they wanted in a lot of areas, so Phil’s “I don’t know what to show them”was a bit “really?”

@user1476013826 hope you are vegetarian then.

Kirstie and Phil talk to one another the way they do because they are very old friends who have known one another and worked together closely for a VERY long time... I do hope those getting their knickers in a knot over Phil hunting UK game are vegans.. or the hipocrisy is eye-watering!

On ETTC why do older people want acres of land away from other houses, do they not realise the down sides? I was amazed to see an older very overweight couple on it once who looked like they had spent their lives on the sofa, who wanted loads of land for a small holding to keep lots of animals. Both looked on the verge of a heart attack so I have no idea how they would cope with all the work involved. I think they were deluded...or on it for a couple of days out and to be on the telly.

Alternatively, beachcomber, they may have been on medication that made them like that and knew that they were coming to an end and that the weight would be lost.

Does anyone remember To Buy Or Not To Buy? The houses were usually over budget or not at all what the potential buyers wanted. I can’t remember anyone actually buying a house on the show.

The couple from Bolton a few weeks ago bought the last house they viewed on my street. They are massively refurbishing it at the moment. Funnily enough I was at work when it was shown and got an excited text off my 2 dcs telling me I’d been filmed carrying shopping into my house and sent me a photo shot to prove it. Never realised I looked like a bag lady !

One side of my family hunts, mainly moose and deer. They do not live in this country but somewhere else with a vast wilderness. They have to apply a permission from the council for the hunting season, this also ensures the moose and deer numbers don’t expand/diminish as it’s thightly regulated. All of the animal is also used. Your average Brit is far removed from this culture though and don’t understand that this is the most ethical way that there is.

I love property programmes. Homes Under the Hammer is my favourite, but I'll watch any old shite. I do think that the market/sentiment has changed hugely since the start of LLL and the days of property ladder. The worst one I have ever seen was an episode of Sarah Beeny's Double your house for half the money. She told a couple that they'd increased the value of their house by X and was banging on about how much they'd made (although they hadn't because it was only a valuation), and then they said they'd spent £50k on credit cards and borrowing from family and friends. Just awful.

And yes to the 60+ couples looking for places in the middle of nowhere. Not taking the access to the amenities into consideration, they also forget that it is an absolute pain for anyone else to come and visit them. When DH and I are older, I want to live in a smart flat, city centre’ish and have max 2 loos to clean!

I didn't think it was possible for anyone to find Phil attractive until I read this thread. Does that smarmy smile not put you off? I can't stand the pair of them. I do like looking at houses though.

I remember to buy or not to buy! Guilty pleasure tv that was as good as Homes Under the Hammer! So sad though about Kristian Digby he was a great presenter he used to really make me chuckle . Yes I cannot fathom out peoples reasoning buying a large isolated house in the country with land and animals when you are in your 60’s and their current house is always a 3 bed semi in the suburbs! I really think an Escape to the City programme would go down a storm.

Our house was for sale on escape to the country about 16 years ago. The family moving out of there flat in London with no garden didn't like the garden as it wasn’t big enough. I thought a 3rd of an acre wasn’t that bad myself!

The programme I get a bit fed up with is A Place in the Sun, great when it’s a decent budget but often it’s about £45,000 so instead of getting my property porn fix of lovely villas in the sun with pools I get horrible one room apartments decorated circa 1982 located in Costa Dullsville that have a view onto the car park. I love Jasmine though I want to be her friend! she had such a lovely manner about her and is totally lovely to the prospective buyers.

Phil Spencer is the son of a landowner/ farmer and would have been brought up with animals, animal husbandry and hunting. I am sure his dealings with animals are responsible and in keeping with country codes regarding livestock. Farmers love their animals and know that predators have to be kept down. They are also keepers of centuries of rural custom and practice. It rather behoves country people to retain the customs of the country and for urban dwellers to keep their breath to cool their porridge. I am sure that not alll the ‘ kill Phil’ posters are vegetarians anyway.

‘alll ‘? Sorry, ‘all’.

I love Love It or List It. I can't look on Rightmove without bringing up the floor plan that's available to see where I could be knocking down walls/generally rejigging things.

Watching with interest.

‘It’s grand designs where they say

“I’m a professional basket weaver and my wife is a stay at home Mum and our budget is £900,000...”*cracked me up