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

I haven't seen episode 3 yet but the famly where the parents were 2 vets i don't think were particularly extremely wealthy.

Haven’t seen that one yet, 2 vets or 2 people with professional jobs would be much better in terms of role models. There aren’t that many of us that have written software and sold for millions, but plenty of IT professionals with very nice lifestyles.

Depends what the programme’s for I suppose, but surely if you just want to see mansions that’s what all thre property programmes are for?

Must be 4th, first prog: software company, sold for m and retired, second prog: logging firm, sold for m and retired, third prog: captain of industry, retired and now ceo of charity!

www.thesun.co.uk/living/3278107/rich-house-poor-house-spoilt-brat-shopaholic-lashes-out-at-single-mum-angela-in-row-over-dog-poo/

not surprising - the programme makers were probably rubbing their hands with glee when they came cross Kaylee. It's probably some deliberate strategy on her part to get herself onto a reality tv programme...

Actually I think some people on here are watching series 1 and some of us are on series 2 may be hence the confusion.

This is s3

I’ve been away on holiday

Was it not shown last wed as not on my planner

So 3 is on this wed

It was last series so thankfully doesn't seem to have worked.

Yeah episode 3 of new series is this week

well, i'm glad to find that I've got several more to watch with DD! makes a change from disney teens. sleeping I'm glad to hear that too, hard to believe someone could really be like that!

Tonight’s swap is an 8 bedrooom
House swapped with 3 bed council

What’s the betting the 8 bed family won’t have same number of children as 3

Most rich families seem to have 2 children in this series or less

Be good to make them share a bedroom etc

There was large family last season, 6 kids or so but they swapped with another large family so they had enough beds

WHo saw last nights?

I will have a look and report back as am about to eat my lunch.

Wayching tonight, after the baby toddler is asleep

okay finished eating so will have to watch the rest later....

1. Intersetingly in my view the very poor couple who are graduates are a higher class than little miss rather common fake tan and her cockney accent ( think) retail husband cash machine.

1. As ever the less well off coupld had babies far too soon they say - which will be the reason for their poverty - contraceptive failure at Glastonbury although wisely they both did complete their degrees so well done to them for that.

1. The richer couple moved. I was not so far from the less well off couple and I moved and ergo I did well. My ancestors moved to the NE for jobs in their time some from Ireland. It tends to make you better off if you move and if you take risks but this couple chose not to , May be they should consider a move.

1. As ever there are weight problems for those with no money. Skipping a meal a day might be a good start although I accept if life is very hard often your food is the one thing keeping you going.

1. Why did the less well off couple have a third child, something the well off ones have not, when money is so tight? I also think their rented 3 bed house looks really smart. I am surprised they can afford the rent on it unless rent in the NE is very cheap. The standard compared to houses I have lived in and owned is very high so things could be worse for them.

I will have to watch the rest later as I work half the year to pay tax and the other half once i've fed myself to keep the children to try to give them a better life (trying to ensure 2 graduate debt free at the moment).

Anyway good programme as ever and they picked some lovely people although I don't like the way the richer father criticises his wife within the first few minutes even if he is "joking". What about a bit of self deprecation? I suppose his lack of that or his insecurity just reveals his lower class despite his money.

Wait... I forgot my usual point too. Yet another set of 3 people where women serva and men earn even where the wife has a degree! Where does this come from?> For 4 or 5 generations women work in my family including uin the NE and I earn 10x what my children's father earn. Surely the mother of 3 with the degree might be able to out earn her supermarket working husband? I think if they both moved from the NE they might both get graduate jobs in the SE and build a better life by both working full time.

And where will they get the money for deposits, rent etc to just up and move three kids. Plus the actual cost of moving, new uniforms etc.

How can they afford to up and down the country for interviews to get jobs before they move?

And unless they're eating for five main meals a day, missing meals is the worse lose weigh advice you can give

Love your insights @zenia

Yes they said their children were accidents after Glastonbury. But that’s the first. So they decided to have another 2yrs later and then a 3rd once the older two at school - again wondering if was a happy accident .....

If struggling and have two kids why have a 3rd

But good for them to finish their degrees

I did think the proposal was lovely tho hated the ring 😂😂

I did weirdly enough look at those after df proposed - window look lovely. On finger look like a knuckle duster 😂

Plus very cheap £650. Obv low carots

Rich mum lovely and stuck to budget esp after car troubles

Why the dad sauntered off to work. Assume own job.

I did think who needs 8 bedrooms and bathrooms when 4 in the house

And amazed no swimming pool pmsl

I still haven't finished it so proposal is a spoiler but don't worry. I need to break off again for work. i assumed both were married.

the richer retail man is a like a few very successful men in retail - i was talking to my son about that actually the other day - it seems to be a sector where you can rise up from different kinds of backgrounds more easily than some careers so you get a fair few not so well off men and women made good in that sector (and good for them).

I see the richer wife does do the husband's admin so not entirely not working and she used to be a teacher and is fed up that she is constantly a single parent although if she had also progressed in a retail career she could be earning what her husband does and more so completely her sexist choice. My husband followed my career hundreds of miles as a trailing spouse.

Yes a lot of bed room when you have 2 children but it's their money.

I am afraid I am just astounded by the Hartlepool council house even if it is only worth £63k. The standard of everything in it is nothing like I would have expected so at least they are reasonably housed

Swimming pool for the richer ones? Depends what yo like. A lot of houses on my road have pools but I'm not that into swimming so I don't have one.

Sleeping, missing a meal is now regarded as best practice. The Newcastle study on diabets and weight loss even puts people on 800 al a day actually and has found rapid weight loss can work very well despite the older idea that you must have a big breakfast. I agree it is not easy to move but I suspect this is one of the differences - soe of us who do better than others are prepared to do things others aren't. We lived apart to start with. I shared a bathroom in a very grotty bed sit. I found my records this weekend. the rent was £200 a month and my net salary was £333(at the start of my career). i took 2 weeks annual leave only when I had a baby and always worked full time. The cost of our childcare was 50% of the net wage of each of us. I am not saying everyone will make a lot of money if women do what I did but it is often what you see - this chap works away a lot, put his career first etc and he has the money. The other man and his wife have decided she won't work and that he will not work away or travel for work.

So it sounds like they had a baby whilst they were studying but completed their degrees. They probably then get a council house in Hartelpool. The husband or wife could have moved away to work as I did however hard that is and commuted. We have Yorkshire relative who had to get a first graduate science job in surrey at the moment as that is where the jobs was not in Bradford.

Ah he's going to buy her a ring - nice kind man although definitely a silly purchase in their situation. £800 in the bank against emergency car repairs as he needs his car for work or to cover travel costs to interviews all around the country over the next 6 mjontsh would be a much better way to spend it. Why even bother with an engagement ring? Total waste of money and if it's not insured and it's stolen not a good idea at all.

Why didn't the teacher have her children in the library rather than in the playgrond in the rain? I huge3 parts of mmy childhood totally free of charge (in a sense even free heating) in Newcastle libraries. And hartlepool has them. they may not be open every day but they could make that their trip on say 3 days a week for a start.

www.hartlepool.gov.uk/directory/9/library_locations_and_opening_times/category/100

Could he not work on the oil rigs? Lots of people do from the NE who are in engineering.

i don'[t understand why the richer lady thinks you have to do expensive things all the tiem. We are quite well off but that kind of constant spending is just pointless. Things you can do like reading, singing, drawing at home, boxed games, walks - that doesn't cost anything so I don't think the fact you can't go say bowling is a big deal. You 'd have to pay me to endure bowling.

I assume they aren't allowed to bank the money from the show so a kind of spend it or lose it agreement.

Our depend what's important to you. Being together as a family or Dad living away for months trying to get a job in the SE, not being able to afford to travel up or see the kids only to potentially end up else off if he can't find a wage that covers the bills better than they do up north. It is possible to get good jobs up north too, so surely he'd so better trying to improve the job he has here.

If my DH moved to SE id get more help through benefits as I'd be a lone parent but we'd lose DH's wage temporarily so no better off. He'd then need to find a deposit for his bedsit / room and rent etc whilst job hunting. What is to say that he'd get a "Better" job down there, where he'd need to earn more anyway to cover the higher cost of living? He'd then need to save up another deposit for a family home and the cost of removal. Moving hundred of miles from family would make it harder for support etc for me to then get a job.

Unless one of us had a niche qualification for a niche career the move wouldn't make sense

Agree about the activities though, but many middle and upper class families absolutely fill their childs itinerary with tutoring, sport, music lessons so they're in school full time then 8 extra curricular activities on top. It's not a healthy balanced childhood imo, children need down time, need to be bored, need to use their imagination