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

To pp who asked if they put flyers through doors, no they email via casting agencies.

Hat Trick Productions, an award winning television Production Company, the makers of Dinner Date, Have I Got News for You and Outnumbered are making another series of Rich House Poor House.

We are looking for families to take part in a heart-warming and thought-provoking series where you get to see how the other half live. In the documentary you will swap homes, budgets and lifestyles for a week in a real-life AirBnB arrangement.

The ambition of the programme is to look at how much money matters to happiness through the eyes of two families, each experiencing life at the other end of the wealth divide.

No matter how different their financial circumstances are, the two families in each programme have shared values and common ground that they discover across the week’s swap.

We’re eager to hear from families from all types of financial backgrounds so please don’t hesitate to get in touch with me if you are interested in hearing more. Please call or text Claudia on 07401 296315 or email [email protected]. Please contact us for any questions, no matter how big or small!

WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU!

Btw am not suggesting anyone applies, my dd is with a casting agency and we sometimes receive random emails like the above.

"I hope Mike can pursue the career path he wants"..... what about his wife? Sexism at the heart of all this. She has a degree too . Why can't she pursue the career she wants too? We did well because my mother in the 1940s in the NE forged her career. Are we really still so far behind that in 2018 women are still not working?

Some of us non working women are perfectly capable of making our own decisions for the benefit of our own families. I no more need a man telling me I need to stay home than I need a women telling me I should work.

Practically DH should have quit to be a SAHP not me but not every decision in life is based on money

I actually think the so called ‘poor house” was pretty nice.
I know well of professionals living on London who would kill for a house like that.

‘Well off’

Many social housing properties are lovely, well kept homes that their residents are very proud of

Xenia rapid weight loss is dangerous and can cause illness

They do leaflet the affluent/less affluent areas. I received a letter with the wording above. A lot of the locations in the last programme were very familiar to me.

I was not so far from the less well off couple and I moved and ergo I did well
Because no one in the North can possibly make a success of their life...

men earn even where the wife has a degree!
Well he can't breast feed the child that she's still breast feeding so short term at least there's things he simply can't do as a SAHP. She worked written the others were little soup presumably she'd look at going back again once the baby is older.

Why the dad sauntered off to work I imagine it's harder to get time off in rich Dad's job and poor Dad probably hadn't got enough leave left

although if she had also progressed in a retail career she could be earning what her husband does he earns so much because he travels the world, he's only home half the time. Even if she was interested in a career in retail, how would both parents having a career like that work with two kids? Should they shove then both in boarding school just so they can make more money??

missing a meal is now regarded as best practice by whom? Even on a low cal diet, its little and often

Why didn't the teacher have her children in the library Yeah that was very odd.

Surely they'd have been better in the house than in the park.

Could he not work on the oil rigs? because some people want to see their children grow up? Rich Mom said herself she didn't like him being away, rich Dad largely thought he was making the right choice but accepted he missed the family.

Xenia rich Dad said re poor Dad's career because he'd meet with his friend and discussed his frustration over not pursuing it. There was no conversation about Mom wanting to pursue any career let alone her degree so such a comment about her would have been weird and would have been "man thinks he has a right to tell woman she should leave her kids in childcare to work". We don't need men, we have Xenia

I just find it fascinating and how they never seem to question it. I know someone who was pregnant at university and yet still did work after - a friends of one of my children. It doesn't have to end like it did for that couple and just because you are female does not need to mean the man earns more. Let us see if we have a woman earning a lot next week. I think in the previous series there was one or two and a few in this series have managed the properties they let out although if it's just 2 flats it's not really proper work.

(I don't think this is the thread for intermittent fasting discussions but it's how mankind always ate and it's what a lot people now think we are better off eating particularly if we are short of money and have weight to lose as it costs nothing and it works and it gives your body a rest)

She did work after the first two kids, she hasn't worked since she had the baby she's still breast feeding.

Rent in that part of the NE is spectacularly low due to supply outstripping demand thanks to low house prices (compared to the rest of the country) and buy to let LL from outside the NE taking advantage of this. Some streets areas are exclusively rented properties. It's something the council is trying to crack down on as it's having a massive effect on the town.

The buy to letters who thought they were buying a nice home by the sea for a nice family eventually end up letting to anyone and everyone just to cover the mortgage and you end up with high concentrations of addicts in one area who really need to be in social housing, where they'd get more support and be more spread out.

That particular town also has a great vocational college with an excellent engineering department, so engineers are ten a penny, whereas jobs for engineers are not. Nissan making job cuts, steel works closing down etc has made job hunting especially hard. Yeah, loads of people do work on the rigs but again, supply of engineers and people wanting to work on the rigs outstrips demand making a really hard job to get into.

I ajm certainly not saying it's easy and I'm a Geordie so not exaclty unknowledgeable about that area. It sounded like they were happy with their choices too - much less work and time with the children.

Sleeping, I expressed breast milk at work when I had tiny babies but I accept that is not for everyone but it is one reason I earn what I do now.

Money isn't the be all and end all Xenia. I'm sure you have a lovely life and your children have lovely lives but money isn't the bee all and end all. I'm sure I'm pretty much the kind of person your would despise / despair of but there's no way I could have left my sin in hospital for months without me beside him just to go back to work. I could have played the system and kept my job and stayed with him but I'm not like that and it wasn't how I wanted to live (although financially I'd have been better off). I gave up my career over my husband giving up his job because one of us needed to be home full time and I needed it to be me, I simply an not strong enough to let DH give up work.
Perhaps you're right that that makes me hopeless and destined for a crappy life financially but I'd rather my son know I was there in those early months than be able to go to private school and skiing

the questions should be asked at least though - the number of times you see threads on here where someone takes a year out of a degree for a baby - I wonder howmany of those degrees end up being completed. It's too unquestioned - especially as getting a degree is important for future earnings.

TV programs aren't great at asking people to justify their decisions in any detail.

Should a show like this be asking people to justify their actions?

Should someone be asking rich Dad to justify being away from home so much, leaving his wife feeling like a single mom and the kids missing him?

Justify why poor Dad got any job local rather than leave his partner with one or two very young children to make a life down South (although I will concur with Xania somewhat re moving, really something they needed to do after graduation if he knew that's where the jobs are)
Justify why rich mom vet wants to work less hours than Dad vet when working more could make them richer?

There obvs is some prompted discussion s they all having meaningful loo chats but I'm not sure it should be about the poor family justifying their life

equally - no, agree, my point was that most of these programs accept people's decisions at face value and that can lead to things looking as though outdated stereotypes are being perpetuated.

Doesn't it all come down to whether it was a thinking or an unthinking choice? Clearly in your case sleeping, and mine, we made reasoned choices rather than accepting our lots.

Ah yes, I agree. Where was the toilet cm of Mom reflecting on her life choices

"The rich family carried it to the local tip having broken it into pieces and I was thinking well anyone would have done that - what stopped the "poor" family doing that, it cost nothing"

Were they really walking distance to the tip? If not, it does cost.

Sleeping I don't despite anyone and money isn't the be all and end all particularly when other people make choices to work full time which means those who don't do not need to work as hard I suppose.

However it does come through on alomost every episode that women not working or people having too many children or having children too young seem then to do less well.

Therefore all our teenagers just need to be shown that certain choices can make life harder than other choices, that's all I'm saying.

(The sofa example - yes walking distance and there were 3 huge teenagers to help the father if I remember correctly and the usual family in that house had little ones so I can understand why they were less likely to move it themselves or saw it up into bits. I seem to spend a lot of time sawing stuff up and taking it to the tip so it's obviously an issue I am often having to think about - how to break things into pieces etc).

when other people make choices to work full time which means those who don't do not need to work as hard I suppose
Do you mean the other partner or the good tax payers funding lives of liberty?

I do agree re teenagers and aspiration etc. Ine of the best contraceptives for teenagers is ambition. Young people are less likely to have a baby (be that not get pregnant or not complete the pregnancy) if their aim in life is other than leave school, have babies, be a mom.

As an ex youth worker we always tried to show the girls in particular what their choices are