Location, Location, Location - What We Are Not Told About Buying a House

[eighthobstruction]

Sounds like a Heap of nonsense to me.

....my fingers have blisters from all the neading and groveling....

[oddoneout]

I think you are expecting too much from a programme whose main(possibly sole) purpose, is to entertain. It isn't a consumer guide to relocating/finding your 'forever' home(always worry that's the kiss of death when broadcast to several million viewers).Questions about building on or otherwise losing a view do arise, and as to facilities schools in particular are frequently mentioned.
If the couple had sold property(ies) they owned previously then they could well have made money enough, plus current salaries, to afford that kind of budget. My son and DIL, same age, had a similar budget for their home bought last year, made possible in large part by selling their flat in central London for silly money and moving further out.
I lived for 24 years opposite a cemetery; my in laws hated its situation,but we liked it. It was active and well maintained and we had a borrowed landscape of trees, grass and decorative buildings, to say nothing of a much lower rateable value than would otherwise have been the case which saved us quite a bit over the years. The church was in town and not adjacent to the cemetery but proximity doesn't always have much bearing on chancel tax - the property was in theory liable.

[Dave2002]

There have been English people looking at properties worth over a million who say "haitch".

That, to me, is upsetting.

Does that say as much about you as about them?

I still get upset if people say "different to", rather than "different from" and various other forms of speech, but that doesn't mean
those people deserve my opprobrium.

[Lat-Literal]

Does that say as much about you as about them?

I still get upset if people say "different to", rather than "different from" and various other forms of speech, but that doesn't mean
those people deserve my opprobrium.

I don't think it is opprobrium.

More some sort of sense of a preferred natural order linked to concepts of meritocracy.

I think you are expecting too much from a programme whose main(possibly sole) purpose, is to entertain. It isn't a consumer guide to relocating/finding your 'forever' home(always worry that's the kiss of death when broadcast to several million viewers).Questions about building on or otherwise losing a view do arise, and as to facilities schools in particular are frequently mentioned.
If the couple had sold property(ies) they owned previously then they could well have made money enough, plus current salaries, to afford that kind of budget. My son and DIL, same age, had a similar budget for their home bought last year, made possible in large part by selling their flat in central London for silly money and moving further out.
I lived for 24 years opposite a cemetery; my in laws hated its situation,but we liked it. It was active and well maintained and we had a borrowed landscape of trees, grass and decorative buildings, to say nothing of a much lower rateable value than would otherwise have been the case which saved us quite a bit over the years. The church was in town and not adjacent to the cemetery but proximity doesn't always have much bearing on chancel tax - the property was in theory liable.

Perhaps - I'm actually for Kirstie Allsopp. I like her as a broadcaster and what I know of her as a person. Less so, other presenters, eg on Coast vs Country. But I would like more explanations along the lines that you have provided. Even then, had your son and DIL been boarding school teachers in their 20s in Central London, I doubt that that they would have been in the same financial situation. It seems to me generally that there is too much emphasis in the programmes on properties that are not affordable to most people and that they are to some extent fuelling discontent. It's dream based. They don't point out many of the negatives. I write as someone who is lucky enough to own three quarters of a tiny bungalow.

[Dave2002]

....my fingers have blisters from all the neading and groveling....

Should that 'av been 'neading?

[eighthobstruction]

>>Opprobrium<<.... such lovely sounding word....worth it just to hear such a word....

....Myself, I couldn't be so contumely....

[eighthobstruction]

Should that 'av been 'neading?

kkkkkk....

one of several unintentional mistakes each day....

[eighthobstruction]

....yet another....misfire

[jean]

There have been English people looking at properties worth over a million who say "haitch".

That, to me, is upsetting.

Would it be less upsetting if they were poorer?

Or if they were Irish?

[Lat-Literal]

Would it be less upsetting if they were poorer?

Or if they were Irish?

Yes.

[Dave2002]

>>Opprobrium<<.... such lovely sounding word....worth it just to hear such a word....

....Myself, I couldn't be so contumely....

Ah - the learning experience. I'll add it to my terms for invective.

[vinteuil]

....Myself, I couldn't be so contumely....

Ah - the learning experience. I'll add it to my terms for invective.

... contumely an excellent word : Fowler in Modern English Usage discusses no less/fewer than five possible pronunciations.

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[Stanfordian]

I don't think it is opprobrium.

More some sort of sense of a preferred natural order linked to concepts of meritocracy.


Perhaps - I'm actually for Kirstie Allsopp. I like her as a broadcaster and what I know of her as a person. Less so, other presenters, eg on Coast vs Country. But I would like more explanations along the lines that you have provided. Even then, had your son and DIL been boarding school teachers in their 20s in Central London, I doubt that that they would have been in the same financial situation. It seems to me generally that there is too much emphasis in the programmes on properties that are not affordable to most people and that they are to some extent fuelling discontent. It's dream based. They don't point out many of the negatives. I write as someone who is lucky enough to own three quarters of a tiny bungalow.

Hiya Lat-Literal,

Personally I often wonder if the programme is completely staged. I doubt the prospective purchasers are genuinely looking at properties in the price range shown. I sometimes wonder if the prospective purchasers are genuinely looking to move at all.

[jean]

....Myself, I couldn't be so contumely....

...contumely an excellent word...

Unfortunately, the one thing it is not is an adjective...

[eighthobstruction]

Hiya Lat-Literal,

Personally I often wonder if the programme is completely staged. I doubt the prospective purchasers are genuinely looking at properties in the price range shown. I sometimes wonder if the prospective purchasers are genuinely looking to move at all.

.....goodness next you will be saying that those celebrities don't really want to buy antiques....whatever next....vets that don't like animals....bogus builders wanting to put in a proper damp-course which is guarenteed for 25 years....