Back to the country etc

Fennel

They did have a series ?Return to the Town but it didn't last long.

I missed Return to the Town Fennel

nanna8 I think it was Franbern's idea, not mine but it's a good one - however, it might find even more people wanting to go back again to the country.

They did have a series ?Return to the Town but it didn't last long.

I like that idea of Cal’s Return to the City. They could move into a small tatty house because of the cost of city living, that would be worth watching . They could show crowded streets, lots of traffic etc. Would be a lot more realistic, I reckon they would get a big audience !

They always say they want a detached house, no neighbours, and lots of land, in a totally rural area, then decide it's too solitary when they're found somewhere.

Coastpath

Ohhh it has a lovely walk in wardrobe for my extensive shoe and clothes collection.
They will spend 9 months of the year in wellies and waterproofs?

Ohhh there's a lovely big island, dining room and a terrace for entertaining.
You're moving 350 miles away from all your friends and family.

Ohhh 4 acres.
We've just seen your current garden and it's a 10 foot square paved terrace with a plastic chair and one pot in which a shrub has died.

Love it Coastpath.

I love the people who walk into a farmhouse kitchen, rather bigger than the entire ground floor of my house, and complain that it's too small. Unless they are setting up a catering business what are they planning to do in it? Then there are the ones going into raptures about barn conversions with very high open ceilings. Am I the only one thinking "How are they going to heat all that space?" At the other extreme are the ones who want a character cottage and then don't like the tiny windows and very low doors and ceilings.

DH likes these programmes.
If I watch, I make pointed remarks which annoy him
"It's just a programme, don't take it seriously"

I like property shows. If I am watching Escape to the Country TH comes in and days 'What are the poor people scraping by on now? The younger ones with a big budget always want a business opportunity which tells me they don't have that budget at all.

Beswitched - we were a retired couple as you described, in early 60s when we moved to France. We'd been watching A Place in the Sun and got carried away.
We had to compromise a bit but spent 18 very happy years there and only left for the reasons you mentioned.
Our house was much cheaper than those in Escape to the Country. A wintry view:
www.google.com/maps/place/32300+Aujan-Mourn%C3%A8de,+France/@43.3765461,0.4981663,3a,20.7y,234.3h,91.66t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s-7UqykShW7E2sWmKk0iPdw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!4m5!3m4!1s0x12a9a441563f4511:0xed325358d160119b!8m2!3d43.381602!4d0.502269

When you were describing it Miss Adventure I was but when I saw the picture I really liked it.

Like others on here I'm always amazed at the retired couples on Escape to the Country who want to move from the suburban town they've lived in for 40 years and relocate to an old farmhouse down a lonely lane, with no neighbours in site and where they will be totally car reliant in order to get to shops, doctors, or have any kind of social life. Sometimes they also want a massive garden because the husband has always wanted to use a ride on mower, or to start learning how to keep goats and chickens.

Have they actually thought this through?

MissAdventure

There was an absolute corker of a home on tv the other week.
The programme where they build or refurbish..
I can't remember the damn name of it!

They chose all coloured bathroom stuff; an avocado toilet, with a pink bath and a blue sink.

I loved it, but my boys thought it was gruesome!

I think it's gruesome too ?

It looks like a job lot of leftovers!

Of course you have to be picky, but some of these people on ETTC don't seem to have much of an idea about what they actually want/what will suit their requirements.

As someone commented (sorry, I didn’t scroll back to get your name) I too think it wise to be very picky when making the biggest purchase/investment of your life. When we’ve moved house in the past, we’ve always been very choosy - the right one (or nearly right - there are usually compromises) comes along eventually, although it’s a very stressful process. I get the impression with ETTC, that more than 3 houses are actually viewed, but only 3 shown on the programme, as they often say at the end “we’ve had a wonderful WEEK.

LauraNorderr the first house was modern and gorgeous. How much does it cost to heat these houses? Practical things like that go through my mind.

They saw a house on the edge of a village but only 2 buses a week ran- what would they do when they can no longer drive?

Where was the nearest supermarket?

I was short of 1 million to buy any of these houses.

Bugger, so busy reading the thread, I’ve missed the first two houses on today’s show.

Over the years I’ve had blue (cold), rosé pink (I loved that, saw it in a magazine and builders merchant wasn’t happy having to order it specially), avocado (of course) and pale grey. Now white.

My last flat had a baby blue bathroom suite.
They were hard wearing too.

AreWeThereYet

We used to have a jaccuzi bath. I always forgot to turn on the jets before getting in the bath. When I did turn them on I got jetted with cold water that had been sitting in the jets and had to reheat the bath water. The idea was much nicer than the reality. Only used it about a dozen times, I think.

We used it have a Jacuzzi bath. It was so noisy it was anything but relaxing.

Also, a bubble bath was out of the question unless you wanted a room full of bubbles

I love the pastel multi-coloured bathroom pic from the previous page. Friends have recently renovated two bathrooms and have taken out (and thrown away) a beautiful pale blue and an equally beautiful pale pink bathroom suite.

I did my best to persuade them to keep it. Though, when I got married almost 40 years ago, it was all chocolate brown and avocado. I searched for ages (no internet then) for a white bathroom suite.

I'd have to put some extra stuff in that bathroom, I think.
Some plants, for a start.

Love that bathroom, MissAdventure

This all white stuff needs to go . A friend has a frightfully expensive all white and chrome and clean lines. I hate it. I always feel like I'm walking into one of those autopsy rooms.

Bring back colour!

Don’t be, it means you’re still in with a chance!

MissAdventure

I get quite angry if they don't like the place I do.

I get quite angry if they don't like the place I do.

No jacuzzis for me - too many bacteria. Why does a place have to 'tick all the boxes'? Always waiting for that = so annoying.

we once went to a pub with rooms that had such a gorgeous bathroom with roll top bath. I managed two baths and one shower in the space of an overnight stay. Maybe it is a called a clean weekend