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[ThatVikRinA22]

where the heck do they get these people? where do they get £750,000 to spend on a house?

it makes me laugh - they walk into these massive 7 bedroom houses and go "oh its a bit small"

i want to slap them!

Yes, dh has been ranting.

Every week I have to say to him 'Well, they have to have sex with each other whereas you get me. See? No need to feel jealous.'

I'd love to have their budget. Don't think it will be in this lifetime though.

Haven't been watching tonight (football on...) but I'd drag the process out just to spend some more time with Phil...

haha, too big, too small, ideal, just right... and they end up renting a 3 bedroom house.

I would never stretch myself to that sort of budget, it would cripple you in monthly payments.

That 7 bedroom house with playroom in Sporle is my 'if I won the lottery house', it's in my favourites. They wander in and turn their nose up. Different worlds.

I am usually vindicated when I say "they haven't got that kind of money..."

and they don't actually buy anything by the end of the programme

and the dream to have a London crash-pad gets shelved too

fantasists, ain't they...who wanna get on telly

I think they regretted it at the end and looked like they had made a mistake with the whole relocation.He was full of loving the two house lifestyle whereas she had a surly look like she was homesick.I am always amazed when they say too small and it is the size of a bloody shopping centre.Selfish

maybe when you get to spend 750K you expect it to be bloody massive...I would

but the houses were bloody massive! one was 7 bedroomed! how big do you need when there is 3 of you??

oh gosh I would need at least 10 bedrooms, 2 kitchens (one for the staff) at least 5 reception rooms...really the list could go on....

Why are you being so harsh about having 750K to spend on a house. You saw their house in London.Most 3-4 bed terraces in expensive parts of London are 550-700K . Not an amazing leap. They weren't teenagers and had been working in a trendy, expensive business.
They were unrealistic in many ways and yes having that amount of money to spend on a house makes then fortunate but certainly not eextraordinary in London.

im not being harsh, on these programmes their expectations are always stupidly unrealistic though.

i just know if i could afford a beautiful house in a fantastic part of the country i would feel very fortunate and not walk into every massive beautiful barn conversion and then moan!

people have no idea how lucky they are.

Oh I don't mean to be harsh, I'm just jealous. And desparate to buy our first house, which won't be 750K or that big.

Didn't watch it tonight, but generally, regardless of budget, a lot of them just come over as very very spoiled.

I am always deeply suspicious of these couples who want a "London crash-pad" as well as the country home. One suspects that Piers will be spending most evenings there with a variety of silly nubile wenches, while Araminta spends all his money and bakes cupcakes in their Cotswolds home.

I agree, they do get dopes on there and you do wonder how much effort they have put into finding their own home before acting the diva for Phil and Kirsty.
I don't find the budget ridiculous just the fact that they couldn't find something to suit them.

I'm all for a bit of property porn, but the couple tonight...sheesh.

Didn't see it but not all properties for £750K are big. Ours is worth about that I think and it's not big. Also, there are a lot of cash poor, property rich people in the UK. My third house I bought (and struggled to pay the mortgage on because I was right out of uni) for £30K then sold it for £120 five years later. Had no money in the bank, just a house in a desirable street,

Property prices are just an indication of how much people are prepared to pay to live in a certain place, there is very little difference physically between a three bedroomed detached in footballervillage and central Manchester, yet the price tag is very different. If you are desperate to live in a certain style of house in a certain place, you have to stump up that cost. It's nothing to envy, personally if my family are safe, warm and happy I don't give a stuff how much my house might be worth and I pity people who are so obsessed with such things.

However, I agree you've got to question the level of twattery that would choose to get someone else to film them wandering round critiquing someone's upholstery though.

They were a hard couple to warm to somehow. A bit moany and humourless. But maybe they were just uptight in front of the cameras, they seemed sweet with their DD.

I loved one of those barn conversions! Always attracted by that modern look, all open-plan and galleries. Used to live in a very old house and got quickly fed up with 'character' which did indeed mean that holy grail a 'lovely fireplace', but also meant rats in the loft and damp spidery corners.

But they have chosen to buy into a lifestyle - They don't need a 7 bedroom house and several acres.

Love the word twattery tho. There was a lot of it today along with mutters of 'Come the revolution...' here in Sarf London.

Sorry, that was directed at Whomovedmychocolate...

I dont think these people are real .....I once saw a man on one of these shows who had also featured in 'cleanaholics'....and he wasnt married then with a child ....i think they are actors!!

I agree ... an ex model my arse and since when do shop keepers own £750k houses, I think it's done to make people feel better about having to borrow 10 x their salary to buy a shoe box in Reading, because one day they will be in the mansion. To quote Shrek .. like that's ever gonna happen.

I think they are all actors too. I dont think any of them really have the money they say they have.

Im glad its not just jealous old me