watching relocation does anyone really do the " crash pad in london" bit

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Anybody see the bungalow they were building in Peckham on Grand Designs (I was switching over) - I liked that couple ... lots

this house for instance!!!!!!

not much garden I'm afraid, keep looking

At the end of the day, it was their money and their choice. Surely if they're funding the lifestyle then they can choose to live wherever the hell they like, mansion or bedsit.

I saw the bungalow on Grand Designs. Liked the house inside, hated it outside and I thought the couple were a bit wet. Especially when he started hamming it up with the tears at the end, actors [humph]

and she turned her nose up at Ramsgate and moved to Folkestone?????!

was a classic, I wouldnt move here as there is no dual carriageway

they are building one

sneer

thought he was an architect not an actor

I thought that was really sweet actually, seemed quite genuine

but I am totally gullible, I shall admit that quite readily

I thought she'd be really lonely. She knew noone where they were moving to. Would be working full time so when would she meet anyone so a lot of long lonely evenings in a huge house. I hope she employed a cleaner for her sake. The H what was he wearing, the clothes were dreadful. I agree with Mrs Big I rather Ramsgate than Folkestone any day of the week.

Do you think the programme is really trying to be 3 programmes in 1. Appeal to the smaller budget by having the crash pad, the bigger budget and then a bit of aspirational living thrown in for good measure.

I thought it was strange when they dismissed one house because their daughter would have to go in the bedroom next to them. They looked at each other and said "Ugh no, we'd have to soundproof our bedroom then."

I wouldn't want my children too far in case they needed me. I'm not talking about a cuddle or that sort of thing I'm talking about nose bleeds, sickness that sort of thing. My DD is often coming in at the moment with her nose gushing all over the house, it makes sense for her to be near for that alone.

I think it is an awful way to live - one parent away for most of the time, plus lots of travelling time at weekends, and the other virtually being a single parent. What is more important your job or your family ? And if the mother is working as well presumably the kids spend most of the time in nursery.

I certainly wouldn't want to do it.

Lifes too short and I don't many people who die wishing they had worked longer hows and spent less time with their family but hey ho their bed and choice.

To be fair, was it their bedroom, or the daughter's bedroom that would need the soundproofing?

My FIL did for years (in fact he ended up with two cwash pads as the first got taken over by children at uni etc)

He only used if he had a late meeting or a very early start though.

We organised a similar thing by buying into my SIL's flat 3 years ago so she could get a flat with more rooms. Then we didn't move to the country so was a waste of time really!

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This programme has grown so boring. It's same old, same old: picky, nippy rich people poo-pooing Kirsty and Phil's suggestions and whinging like 3-year-olds. Yawn. None of them seems to need or want help. What's the point? Let 'em get on w/it themselves.

This programme has grown so boring. It's same old, same old: picky, nippy rich people poo-pooing Kirsty and Phil's suggestions and whinging like 3-year-olds. Yawn. Ever notice how greedy some of them seem? None of them seems to need or want help. What's the point? Let 'em get on w/it themselves.

One couple I know, (used to work with the lady of the duo) have a house in the south of France, and a small London flat. He commutes (has a job with shift work) so does 4 long shifts, then 4 days off. They're weren't particulary well off people, but had built up some equity in their house and decided to rethink their lives. They did this about 5 years ago and are still happy.

Personally, I didn't like the house the couple on the programme chose. I think if you live in London (as we also do), you can get overtaken by the amount of space/rooms you get for your money elsewhere. I much preferred the Georgian mansion in Ramsgate which was stunning and (I thought) a better investment in the longer term if they were going to break their budget as they did in the end.

I love snooping around the houses, but do agree this couple seemed really strange to me. Why on earth did they want such a huge house? Does anyone know what jobs they actually did? And why would they want to soundproof either room??? Do they have a particularly weird sex life, do you think?
Would have loved to have watched Grand Designs....bloody football.

DH and I were discussing the horribleness we imagine it would be to have one of us living somewhere else during the week. We'd both miss each other and wouldn't like it at all.

Can't ever imagine having a £500,000 budget for one house and a £200,000 budget for another one. Have to admit to being a bit .

think people often struggle with practicalities of 2 homes - friends have London & country pad and had meant to mainly live in country one - still seem uttertly caught up in London life in terms of job, status etc and therefore rarely make it out of the city, except to do major renovation work. Although it does mean it's easier to escape London prices & influence properly when you do want a family house rather than getting stuck in home counties like so many..

I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets irritated by Location Location. I don't know why I torture myself and watch it. I'm getting sick of the really large budgets or the dual living - as if that is the norm for this country.

I agree that this particular couple last night seemed so full of themselves I couldn't see why they bothered to enlist help.

And that house was huge. What was the point for one child? It didn't sound like they planned anymore. Now there's big and spacious housing - which i would love to live in and then there's rattling around the house the size of a hotel - which seems plain ridiculous.

They were making the basement into a self-sufficient guest pad?!? What, they didn't have enough room in the rest of the house for guests?

Even when they moved into their new house there didn't seem to be many toys around or much evidence of their daughter's existence... and the narrator kept on making a big deal about 'adult' time.

Hmmm, I wish they'd do more realistic programmes with more normal people.

Twig - Grand Designs, He was an actor and 'inventor' [rolls eyes], and she was a dance teacher. That's why they couldn't raise a mortgage as money/work was sporadic. Bloke borrowed the money for the build from his folks. The lad helping out, Ollie something, was a friend of the bloke and was an architecture student.

I thought she looked really strained at the end when she kept saying how happy they were (after she had her hair straightened)
Mind you could just be schadenfreude (?Sp)