Rich house poor house wed ch5 9pm

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Two families swap lives for a week. Total opposites in the life styles

the richest 10% and a family who live on the breadline

Presumably they just have a list of good/bad areas and send out literally thousands of letters in the hope of getting a couple of people interested. It obviously doesn't reflect much local knowledge as our estate is (sadly and in a pretty damning indictment of generations of housing policy) really divided, with a 'nice' privately owned end and a 'not nice' other end, and they'd obviously done the whole lot.

Think they just mailshot "rough" postcodes or the councillors for these postcodes (parents are councillors and one has one of the most deprived wards in the country as their patch and they've had emails from production companies of these kind of things before).

but we have a bread maker!
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I live very close to where they filmed one of the ‘poor’ families in the first series, but our income is in the top 5%, so I suppose you can easily have these differences within the same area.

I am watching it now. So the couple who both qualified as vets earn a lot and the couple who didn't do that earn less. It treally is a programme about education and getting as high A levels and professional career degrees as you possibly can if you want to increase your changes of being in that upper %. So people saying the poor children go home to their house and are may be sad instead their parents could say looka t this couple - they passed all those exams and got to be vets (one of the hardest most competitive university courses in ther UK actually) and then they benefited from tha so you little boy can be a vet too - now start doing the after school work middle class 4 or 5 year olds often do and let us get you ahead of your class at times tables by the time you are 6.

the other thing I can't stand on it is the sexism! The woman doesn 't work full time and the man does. Why can't they pick couples where women earn more than men. Also the way the woman looks at the man's face when she's speaking as if she has to defer to him and he decides what she might say I don't like either nor in the other couple the fact she and the girl do the packing whilst the men mess around on a rugby field - ugh, who can live like taht ins such a sexist way? Let mr vet do the packing whilst the woman does her sport.

"Captain of the team", what a sexist man. he's obviously a kind nice father but he is very sexist. Why can't his wife be captain of the team?

I think a lot of this comes down to contraception and also sex. The reason they are in financial trouble is she got pregnant. If they had managed to avoid that eg by not having sex then they could have built things up first. The 4 generations of my family who have now managed to do better than those before have done it in part because of putting off children, getitng a lot of educational qualifications and career experience. My grandfather had my father when he was 49. My parents were married 8 years before having babies and bought a house first. We bought a house and qualified into careers before having children.

We saw this on the last series a lot too - the richer couple tend to be at least 10 years older.

..now they are putting up a tree house, which will breach planning rules and breach the tenancy agreement. I wonder who thought that was a good idea?

tree house not too bad I can see now although it will let them look over into the next door's garden so I am not sure the neighbours would be glad. It was kindly meant.

Wow Xenia, who peed in your pasty??

I thought that about the tree house too. I hope they asked the neighbours.

Xenia 🙄

I like the show but calling it 'rich house poor house' is a bit grim.

The woman doesn 't work full time and the man does. Why can't they pick couples where women earn more than men
They have all sorts of families, but in reality in many many many families the women drops hours to accommodate children. He probably has a higher hourly rate and can get more overtime.

the woman looks at the man's face when she's speaking as if she has to defer to him... erm, protecting much? Totally didn't get an abusive arse, poor controlled woman etc.

she and the girl do the packing whilst the men mess around on a rugby field - ugh, who can live like taht
They're told what day to pack. It would be beyond childish to stop the son going to football just to prove on telly that penis owners can pack a suitcase. Yeah, she should have spited her kid to please you.

"Captain of the team", what a sexist man. he's obviously a kind nice father but he is very sexist. Why can't his wife be captain of the team?
Because he's talking about how he feels about himself. Seeing himself as responsible for looking after his family doesn't mean she's just the doormat who does as she's told.

My grandfather had my father when he was 49 well that's something only really open to men isn't it so unless women marry older men then the man isn't going to be that old.

I agree this passes a strong message to the "poor" kids about what they can achieve although I wonder how much it sticks when the kids are primary school age or younger. Little Polly won't remember it much ince she's 11.

And whilst you may have a point that if no one had sex til they were 35 then they'd have more chance to go to uni, get a good job and buy a house first but that's not reality is it. Puerile have kids young and still have amazing careers. Puerile have kids in their late 30's and still live on the breadline. Not every one can work a 60k job because someone has to do the minimum wage work too.

I did week at school, went to Uni, got a decent job but the salary was still only in the £20's. Plenty of people with degrees work in lower salary jobs. We could have waited 10 years to own our own home but I was 30 and I didn't want to risk declining fertility. I'd prefer a baby to a big house.

If you go down the route of not having kids unless you own your own home and earn over X you get into the only babies for the rich. Which actually I sense you'd approve of given that you and your forefathers are clearly so much better than anyone else.

Re planning permission / tenancy, it would take a simple call to check if it was an issue. It won't overlook the garden anymore than bouncing on the trampoline will.

You seen to have missed out a moan about them paying their bills off / not paying it all off / setting up a payment plan. Surely its misogynistic of Mr Vet to swoop in and sort out the little woman's money problems of something.

MrsEricBana there was a family last season who seemed like that to start with. Dropped a £20 note and said oh I wouldn't normally bother picking that up! Made a lot of money very young, married a WAG style wife, couple of kids with celebrity names etc. But it did seen to hit home to him, I think he was probably a better person at least for a while afterwards

If they had managed to avoid that eg by not having sex then they could have built things up first

Heaven forbid poor people have sex. Lest they breed.

What a completely Cuntish train of thought.

Quite agree the plebs shouldn’t have bred. Who the hell do they think they are? Humans ? With actual human rights and feelings and values? The cheek of them.

It was obvious even before we knew what they did that the wealthy couple were just nice people full stop.

@TeisanLap Totally agree.

I remember reading a post by someone on MN a while ago and they said “Rich people make me sick”. I hope they saw this program and realised that money doesn’t automatically make you a bad person (neither does lack of it make you a good or bad person).

Yeah they were lovely, they're the kind of people I'd like to be friends with in rl. Not because they have lots of money but because they seemed like a close family, I little bit quirky (yes HP I'm looking at you) and nice.
I think most times they pick decent families

Yeah they were lovely, they're the kind of people I'd like to be friends with in rl.

I agree. You couldn’t help but warm to them if you met. them. But that said, I also liked the other couple and could make a friendship with them as well.

My forebears were as poor as anything actually in Sunderland etc etc. It was when the family started getting a btter education (on both sides of the family) and not having babies until they bought a house or flat that things got a bit better.

I tihnk that man is incredibly sexist but I accept his wife might like that kind of a relationship. She is a vet. Why isn't she working full time and out earning her "catpain of the team" and he stays home doing the packing whilst she is off doing a hobby with the child etc?

Xenia
Perhaps she doesn't want to. Perhaps they had a chat and she said I don't want Turk work full time, we can afford for one if us to drop back and I want it to be me. I still expect you to pull your weight, especially when Mr and daughter are out at archery class on a Saturday and I'm down the pub with my mates on a Tuesday night.

As opposed to Oi woman, you stay home and iron my pants, I take boy to boy activity and club the wildebeest for tea.

and not having babies until they bought a house or flat that things got a bit better you do realise that the way the market is, there are many many people who will never own their own home so by your logic they shouldn't be allowed to have children. Conversely there are lots of middle and up class females who get pregnant outside of wedlock, outside of home ownership and even (gasp) in their teens - but Mommy and Daddy pick up the pieces and no one sneers because it's just an unfortunate thing to happen to a ^nice^ girl

Yes I know. These kinds of programmes contrasting two vets with the other couples are very good and get people talking about all kinds of issues. They also show the essential goodness in so many kind people too. It is just the way the less well off army may said "she feel pregnant" as it it were some kind of thing God bestowed on the blessed virgin.

I am certainly not saying people who rent should not have children. My granny never owned anywhere and I would not alive today if she had not married at 30 and had a baby (her husband was killed at work when the baby was only 5 months old too so I certainly know a thing or two about hard times at least from family history although I do think their Catholicism which meant no sex before marriage did tend to ensure people did not have children until they earned enough to pay for them and that chastity before marriage was not necessarily a bad thing.

It is just the way the less well off army
Well what charm that education bestowed upon you eh

as it it were some kind of thing God bestowed on the blessed virgin
I think you'll find people across all sort of income streams think their God played a part in them falling / getting / being pregnant.

so I certainly know a thing or two about hard times..... at least from family history
Well aren't you the resident expert!

i tend to agree xenia, I was at an educational event recently for kids at one of the local private schools and was a bit shocked at how much older all the parents were than at the state - a lot of them must have been in their early 40s when they had them.

That's a problem of its own though isn't it, not everyone should put off having children but I agree, every minute of work experience I got before I had DC was easier to get than that post DC. Harder to do the long hours/travelling with children.

Is it suitable for an 8 year old? My child asks a lot of questions about who's rich and who's poor and how rich we are we etc and this could be a good discussion opener.