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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!

You ever been to Columbia Road? Overpriced general east-London urban trendyness...

And terraced houses in Hackney cost a fortune (why we decamped to south London from N16).

What did he do exactly? I like the country for the odd weekend but I always think its pretty extreme just to decamp there and, who can be bothered to do the housework in a 7 bedroomed house? we laugh at this programme every single week. Im amazed by how young the couples seem to be.

He has a vintage retro type interiors shop.

well, goes against hte grain but i prefer it when they ahve hugemungous budgets and complain about the paddock being east facing. more entertaining than a couple in slough with tuppence ha'penny looking for a bedsit.

i thought the woman last night was v. attractive but the guy reminded me of the market seller in that horrific cbeebies show about the childminder.

and they are not actors, i once recognised a woman who had been in my active birth yoga class

Hmm. I thought it was entirely plausible actually. If you sell a good size terrace in London you are going to be able to buy a mahoosive house in Norfolk. It's all economics, innit.

Thought woman last night was ve attractive - fascinated by her whitened teeth. He was def punching above his weight - but am sure he knows that.

(But obviously could not hold a candle to the delectably fragrant Kirsty. She is so pretty . )

how come none of these "contestants" are called sharon and des and have 4 kids under 10. they want to buy a house in surrey but only have 200 grand. Des drives a tesco lorry and sharon has a part time job in a petrol station. Where are the normal people???

Instead we get cuthbert and harriet with £800 grand and 16 white ponies who need a 6 bedroom country manor with 24 acres within 1 hour commute of London and a country bolt hole in cornwall blah, blah, blah...
Give me a fecking break

They happen to be very good friends of mine and they are not actors - just a genuine lovely couple who have worked really hard as high fashion model in vogue in the 8o's and working in fashion afterwards and film maker as well as vintage shop owner, so both really deserve the wonderful new life they now have in norfolk. If I was them I would do exactly the same

What humptynumpty said.

I stopped watching this show years ago because it's ridiculous.

MOST people work hard in life, I don't see what that has to do with anything.

Maybe you find them lovely, bantham, but it appears you're in the minority .

Haven't seen it yet (Sky+'d) but am presuming that they didn't buy anything cos they never do anymore! Phil and Kirsty must just be cringing with emabarrassment that they have a zero success rate this series! My personal favourite was the other week when a couple NEEDED a 10 bedroom house. Arseholes!

bantham - what's his shop called?? I missed the beginning but used to live in East London so was trying to guess which one it was - really like some of their stuff too!

Nobody seems to be buying a property on RR lately.

Maybe I could go on asking them to find me a 16 bedroom pile, with land, quarters for staff, stabling etc with an unlimited budget.

Then after viewing 23 beautiful homes when Kirsty and Phil ask me which one I want them to offer on say "sorry? I have to buy one? With real money? Oh I didn't know that was how it worked..."

right am gonna check out these others in a minute... just watching one on 4oD with woman who doesn't want any noise except birds tweeting.. so far turned down houses because of a barking dog nextdoor, faint traffic noise etc...
I feel like slapping some of these idiots, most people would like to live somewhere without a crack den round the corner or nextdoor to a chip shop/off license open half the night surrounded by swarms of agressive teenagers or with a dual carriageway over the back fence....
But not these feckers, no dog may bark within earshot of my house...

Oh well if they are real fair enough, I do think it goes to show how few people are prepared to pay the inflated prices at the moment, especially people with plenty of wealth they want to keep hold of it.
It also goes to show what for the sake of just another 20% of the price of our house would buy you. We paid a huge amount for a 4 bed semi in the north west and it appears that just a relatively small amount extra would buy me an acre of land and a 7 bed georgian detached.
Seems once again the little people are paying rather a lot.

I never get it when people say they have "worked hard all their lives" so have nurses and the woman stacking shelves in Tescos, who would be lucky to get even a council house in London. I find it very patronising. I bet you 9 times out of 10 the people on this show have had family money, a leg up somehow. I know from my own friend's children who now own massive pads, intially the wacking deposits came from bank of mummy and daddy. It would be great to see normal people on this show for a change.

'He has a vintage retro type interiors shop.'

We all know what major money-spinners bunting enterprises are, too! Cupcakes, kitchsy houseware boutiques, etc.

they do have ordinary people sometimes but it is dull. i never watch unless they are ridiculously wealthy

I never saw anyone ordinary but once, they featured a couple with a budget of £150,000.

In Edinburgh.

Other than that it's all been 'budgets' the size of lottery jackpots.

what did they get for 1500000 in edinburgh? a basement flat in pilton?

They got a fixer-upper in E. Lothian, IIRC.

I was figuring they'd get a wheelie bin in Leith if they tried to stay any closer.

Just watched it - the guy looked like the lovechild of Richard Stilgoe and Michael Flatley!

pmsl @ undercova

Please stop being so precious, Kirsty, house is not pronounced 'hice'. It seems the more 'posh' the couple are, the more she slips into her 'upper classness'

Ooooh, have just thought of something

I HATE the fact that everyone on these programmes refers to houses and flats as Properties .

No, it's a HOUSE ffs. Am wondering if the house-hunters are told to do this, or whether they simply see houses as commodities rather than homes.