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

Yes, I would lose every pennty to stay healthy.

I am watching it at least now. They both seem very jnice families. Yet again we have over weight less well off family and normal sized well off one which just reflects Britain's weight balance so no surprises there. As ever the women don't work other than the dog business which doesn't I presume make much money.

Interestingly this time the rich couple don't haev a high income. I am trying to work more out about that. Criminal legal aid barristers do not earn much at all. I would guess he earns about £30k a year before tax but may be a bit more and the children's school fees are paid from the sale of the painting - the trust money which will protect that mother's inheritance from her relative from her husband were they ever to divorce so sounds a wise thing to have done with the money although that may not have been why they set up the trust. So you probably children whose parents are in the class status of a lot of people in private schools and able to afford the fees and with a nice house but probably not the income of other parents but then they let a property in the grounds of the house I think so that might well get their income up quite a bit even after tax is paid on the rent at 40% or whatever. I'm just guessing here.

Again we have a couple who are less well off in part because they married young and some sexism already! The rich mother said the room is what a girl's room should look like (pink etc!) she is therefore bringing up her daughter to think like that and follow mummy's model of stopping work whilst daddy earns. Ugh.

It's really sad how ill each of the women has been or now is. Interesting the "rich ones" don't have games consoles at home so the less well off ones have stuff they don't.

They are saying the father is good for doing low paid legal aid work but I suppose that choice is enabled because they have the inheritance that pays the school fees.

Finished. It was lovely. What nice families and very positive too and nice about each other as well.

Yet again we have over weight less well off family there was only Dad who was overweight, mom looked fine when she was at yoga. Amazing the difference a good gym membership can have!

I assume there's savings from when mom worked, probably paid of much of the mortgage when they were both working as her earning far more.

Not sure its fair commenting on the women not working given its both because of ill health and its well established that the richer family could risk a business because they were richer to start with.
Reckon rich people and pampered pooches might be quite a money spinner.

The rich mother said the room is what a girl's room should look like (pink etc!) I took it more in the sense of the dolls house and all the space nd yeah the pretties

is therefore bringing up her daughter to think like that and follow mummy's model of stopping work whilst daddy earns. Ugh.
Sorry but I think that's an appalling leap.

1. It's possible to be very girly, pink, pretty and work. It's a ridiculous leap to assume that liking a pink bedroom means her daughter will be raised to sit around all her life being dependent on a man.
2. She worked up until her illness stopped her. She forces herself through the pain to still do the school run etc but you expect her to also go out to work with chronic nerve pain just because that's the only way to not raise a lazy daughter?? She isn't well enough to work but clearly that isn't good enough for you. She didn't get pregnant, quit work and demand he keeps her!

I agree re consoles, I think not being able to afford a laptop bit having numerous game consoles etc is ridiculous but it seems common in areas where people are less happy to have their kids playing outside / people are less tolerant of kids playing outside.

We have no way of knowing id the inheritance allows him to or if their quality of life would simply be different if they didn't. Even with the inheritance many people still wouldn't work that job because it doesn't earn the mega bucks.
However, given their disposable income after bills and mortgage is paid is around 80k a year, he definitely earns more than 30.

I watched this today. Nice families.

The disposable income included the school fees which were paid by the painting. So actually considering the disposable income of £1700 per week included the painting, rent from the outbuilding and wife’s dog grooming business, I can see how the husband could be earning quite a low amount as a legal aid barrister. Most of this family’s income is coming from inheritances and passive income rather than wages I think. Nice little example of how having wealthy parents gives you a massive leg up in life!

Yes, it is true both mothers were or had been ill so presumably if instead their husbands had been they both might have been working full time whilst the men were at home and the ex barrister lady was doing the dog business too so still working. You are right the mother who is ill is not particularly over weight and given how ill she is who could blame her if she were and there are plenty of fat rich barristers (male and female) too for that matter.

It sounded from the family friend like the trust fund could be used for school fees and I presume it helped buy the house which had another property in the grounds they let out and got income from. Also I suspect the barrister couple both worked for a lot of years before having their daughter so probably built up savings, possibly bought a flat each etc and then the wife was lucky enough to inherit the painting and they could set up the trust.

I'd love to know what the picture was and how much it sold for!!

@sleeping. What you say is true. Money wouldn’t make your child not be ill but money would help to not worry about bills /working etc

Yeah I did say we'd stress less about money etc, it certainly would make the practicalities easier, especially given hour expensive hospital life is

i wish they'd put a few more stats in - how many people in the UK are receiving substantial yearly incomes from their wealth as opposed to earned income? And why they don't tell you their exact position in the disposable income percentiles beats me, do people need to be continually dumbed down to?

Even as a fraction of the 'top 10%' it can't be many living on investment income. This programme is propagating the stereotype (among other stereotypes) that there are lots of people as rich as that in the UK but I bet the IFS would say different.

The reason I don't like it is because you could get a terribly overly simplistic impression that the 'rich' is people on over 1m etc and if those people just pay more, life would be great for everyone, but isn't it more the case that if you earn £30,000 per year (not counting what you've got as disposable), in Scotland at least you're richer than 70% of people.

I think they try to avoid being too political although I feel they prompt the less well off to say things like they would not be prepared to work as hard as the richer ones, which always feels a bit forced when I hear it (and plenty of not well off people work just as hard as the well off).

yeah, not a statement I've ever heard someone make IRL, agree Xenia 'rich people work so much harder than we do' - erm, never heard that.

yet I've heard it on the programme, although on the episode I remember the two graduates in the NE it was true her husband chose not to take jobs that would involve them having to move and the other couple had had to move to other areas so I suppose in the context of that programme it was correct. Had the 2 graduates moved for work they might have been doing financially better.

I think the work comments were around the dad who was always travelling for work and mum felt like a single parent. I think there are lots of people who wouldn't split their family up just to make more money, and wouldn't want to miss out on the children growing up by travelling extensively to be home for a few days a week just to earn more money.

So not about them working harder

Has series already finished?

I don't thjnk it's finished as a series. I just wrote finished because I'd finished watching one episode.

It’s not on tonight

Think they usually have 4 episodes

E5 is on Wednesday so hasn’t finished yet

Prob be another £2k v £150

Back on tonight. I know where the rich house is this week...not me, though, as I'm not quite rich enough!

Oh. You know the street /people?

What's going on with the 'rich' ladies face..?!

oh my God the rich woman's face........Jesus H ! money can't buy you class.

Rich lady is a cosmetic doctor - perhaps she practices on her own face.

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