Previously: Next on Black Mirror.
Coming Ashore In Caracas
Surfing enthusiast Ken and graphic designer Miranda are looking for a house with beach views and American-style air conditioning for less than $800 a month. Miranda throws herself face-down on the kitchen floor of the second house after she realizes there is no garbage disposal installed under the sink. She refuses to move as a form of passive protest. Her common-law husband Ken looks nervously at the camera and says “It’s always been my dream to be a stay-at-home dad” four times. He’s starting on a fifth when on off-camera production assistant asks him to stop. Real estate agent Brian is doing his fucking best, and loosens his tie as he walks through the door of his own apartment every night before putting a careful smile on his face. Brian never lets his work interfere with the way he acts at home. His kids think of him as a happy man. His wife thinks of him as a tired but happy man. Brian feels like nothing in the world.
Lonely No More In Lagos
Chad’s company has sent him overseas, which means a brand new adventure for his family. The problems start mounting from day one, when Chad’s wife Denise finds herself unable to step foot outside of the airport. The children are able to pass through the barrier freely, but Denise is physically unable to walk past the terminal doors. Chad’s status at work is seriously compromised due to his “airport wife”‘s inability to attend company parties. Denise becomes convinced the barrier is a physical manifestation of her husband’s lingering doubts about their marriage.
On A Budget In Brasília
Newly-married Kim and Bianca form a suicide pact after realizing that none of the houses in their budget have touchless faucets. They are buried anonymously in a local potter’s field. A briar of white roses springs up from Kim’s grave; a briar of red roses grows from Bianca’s. The briars eventually grow together. According to local custom, any virgin wishing to found her own Fortune 500 company has only to pass a single night under the briar canopy, where she will dream of the name of her future business venture.
Adding Up In Addis Ababa
When the Army offered Daniel a position in his native Ethiopia, he jumped at the chance. The first house offered breathtaking city views and a doorman, but disappeared into a mysterious fog as soon as he crossed the threshold back into the street. Daniel clutched at a terrified passerby and asked him what day it was. One hundred years had passed while Daniel had been marveling over the crown molding. A gold ring suddenly appeared on Daniel’s left middle finger, and he found he could not remove it. He felt a slight ringing in his ears and was suddenly quite sure that he did not need to breathe if he did not want to.
The next day Daniel reported for work.
Keeping Things Under Budget In Kyoto
There are no houses for Cara and Stanchworth, who are forced to return home.
Looking For The Brass Ring In Medellín
Stephanie and and Charles are looking for an apartment that delivers world-class views without breaking the bank while they teach English in Colombia’s second-largest city. The episode’s narrator finds herself slowly falling in love with Stephanie’s sweet inner strength, but cannot bring herself to speak. The third apartment is filled with lavender roses – Stephanie’s favorite.
When Stephanie dies unexpectedly at 38, a masked voice strews lavender roses across her grave.
Bound For Bern
“What is it that you do again?” Realtor Brian asks Andrew and Kirsten as they stroll through the city’s historic shopping district. Andrew and Kristen open their mouths and emit a wordless scream before vanishing into nothingness.
The third house had a lovely open floor plan, but nobody ever saw it.
Tags: house hunters international, television
First Chopped, now this.
YOU HAVE TO STOP CONVINCING ME TO WATCH BACK-SEASONS OF REALITY SHOWS MALLORY I HAVE A FAMILY
Re: Chopped, it seems like sometimes they forget to tell their judges the premise of the show. Like, if you feel the need to tell all four contestants that the gingerbread syrup is just too sweet, maybe that’s a sign that the producers screwed up by throwing it into the appetizer round.
My fiance and I just watched the burger-themed episode where not a single one of the contestants (including the ones who worked at a steakhouse and another burger-heavy restaurant) could get the meat grinder to work in the appetizer round. One of the judges kept going on about how you need fat to emulsify the ground meat, and we weren’t buying it. Someone fucked up with the grinders, which *MAGICALLY* worked perfectly for everyone in the main course round. COME ON.
A guy I know who was on an episode a few years ago confirmed this to be true… they fuck with the equipment routinely. Not enough to give any one contestant a considerable edge, but to add to the drama.
Why don’t we have a Haunted House Hunters International? It’s high time for an unholy SyFy-HGTV alliance anyway.
“This house has only a family ghost when I was looking for a ghost and a poltergeist and some unexplained phenomenon. Can we get some frogs falling from the ceiling?” ” It would be really hard in your price range…and this is a vintage ghost, great resale value.”
“We might be able to find blood seeping from the wainscoting, but since you requested unadorned walls to reflect the barren hellscape of your soul that might be a little difficult.”
**grimaces, nods knowingly**
That’s New Orleans, right? I think I saw that same apartment when I was down there a few weeks ago.
It is! I took the picture when I was there in December.
I LITERALLY WAS JUST ABOUT TO POST THIS EXACT PHOTOGRAPH (or rather, my version of it that I took a few weeks ago)
ALL HAIL THE TOAST HIVEMIND
I think there was an episode of “The Librarians” like that a few weeks ago.
THIS WOULD BE AMAZING I WOULD ACTUALLY FIND A WAY TO WATCH IT WHEN IT AIRS.
I have worked on shows like this AND grew up on fairy tales, so I love this more than words can possibly say. Why isn’t the Toast a place I can move into and live in forever?
Kim and Bianca sound like my kind of people.
ETA: After reading this, I turned on Netflix and the first “Recommended for You” title was House Hunters International! MALLORY HAS STARTED CONTROLLING MY FATE.
You act as if that was never the case.
I love watching watching House Hunters International and trying to guess what kind of blood-sucking jobs these people have where they can retire to Belize at 36 and live in a beachside neighborhood where they never have to look at the locals. But I also love watching regular House Hunters and burning with rage at the bratty idiots who think a house that’s been previously lived in and doesn’t have his-and-hers sinks is basically a tin-roofed shack, and who don’t understand that if you don’t like the color on the walls you can just paint over it.
I’ve stopped burning with rage – I just laugh at the noobs. (And now I’ll just leave this gem here for everyone’s enjoyment.)
IF I HAVE TO HEAR ONE MORE GODDAMN COMMENT ABOUT THE COLOUR OF THE PAINT I S2G I WILL SHUT THIS WHOLE THING DOWN. (“Ava, what whole thing?” I DON’T KNOW OKAY ALL OF IT.)
And what IS the appeal of his & her sinks anyway? It just means you have double the number of sinks to clean!
They also invariably have some kind of vague internetty job they can do from home as well (when they are continuing to work after they move).
I like the people who are bratty about location when they don’t really know where they are. My favorite is an episode about some people who decide they need a weekend condo in Chicago because they’re there aaaaall the time but they consider every neighborhood outside of downtown/River North/Gold Coast to be ‘outside the city’. They get a place in Lakeview and act like their condo is in the suburbs.
I heard … somewhere… that the people on House Hunters have to be under contract already, so that’s why they end up using super-dumb excuses to “reject” places. This may not be true, but it gives me more faith in humanity.
it IS true. I have a house on that show. I was going through a nasty divorce, had *my* house under contract but the bank wouldn’t let me short sell, so while trying to reboot my life from abuse and SAHM land *and* recovering from an accident that left me relearning how to walk, I had to keep.showing.my.house, while applying for jobs, grad school, and dealing with suicidal kids.
My realtor said “Why don’t you put your farmhouse on house hunters, it will be great publicity for it”. I cancelled my appt. in another city with a professor/mentor to get the house in ship shape, called all my favors in, got friends to mow the 7 acres, etc.
THEN I found out, after filming, that they had already decided on a house 45 minutes away, my house was one of the “let’s make up some reason why we can’t buy this one”. In case you haven’t figured it out already, I’m a bit bitter about it!
I then found out that the appt. I cancelled happened to be when my mentor went on to have experimental open heart surgery and nearly died, I nearly didn’t get into grad school, and my entire life was almost even *more* derailed. There are few times that I have marched into professional offices and literally SCREAMED at people, but that realtor? The one who did that to me? The one whose kids are in all my kids’ classes? 4 years later I still flip her off whenever I see her name on a for sale sign.
Some people’s lifestyles are just unbelizeable.
I feel like we should be allowed more than one thumbs-up for comments containing puns.
A separate button for Puns Up.
I’m assuming at least half are living on trust funds and only “work” because they want to. Like the woman IN SEATTLE (possibly near Seattle) who worked as a part-time private tutor and had a $300K budget.
I remember seeing one episode of House Hunters where these two dudes, maybe twenty-five years old max, were looking to move to Key West. And in the “two months later” segment at the end, they talked about their new life, days spent lounging on the beach, nights grabbing drinks with their 50 year old friends. And I was like, these dudes either a)have a trust fund b) invented an iphone app or c) straight up murdered someone for that money.
I’d say, yes, 99% of House Hunter International fills me will rage – sometimes due to jealousy (I can admit that) or, more often, absolute contempt for everything these people seem to stand for/believe in. Occasionally there will be rage born of concern over how the family will live after being just plopped down somewhere due to the husband’s job. My rage is directed at him, in that case. Most of the time it’s at him.
However! I watched a HHI once that brought me to tears and gave me hope for humanity. I know! And get this – it was a family, plopped down into rural France for the husband’s professional basketball job and my God, he loved her so much and was so concerned with making her happy and I just fell in love with their love and it was great. For real cried.
Mostly, though, rage. And this was fantastic.
Was that the one where both husband and wife were like 6 ft tall because she played volleyball in college? Those people were great.
My favorite is the Swedish TV Producer ladyfriends who open a surf camp in France. They were a delight and I will sometimes call my roommate into watch it if I catch the 75th airing of it.
Least favorite is usually someone from Texas (sorry, Texans) being surprised that you can’t have a 6000 sq ft ranch house in the middle of Budapest or where ever.
Yes! It was the former volleyball player and the basketball player! They were great, weren’t they? I need to find the Swedish ladies. Any good HHI helps erase all the negative ones, in like a weird exponential fashion. Small good things make life bearable, right?
Seriously, those are the ones that get me too. And it is 99% of the time someone from Texas or some sprawling southern suburb who just can’t imagine life without a sectional sofa and a lawn.
Many of us Texans are screaming at the ones who are surprised at the small size of places in European downtowns. Especially when, at the beginning of the episode, they say, “We wanted to move here to give the kids the experience of living in a different culture.” THAT EXTENDS TO THE HOUSING YOU IDIOTS.
I remember the Swedish TV Producer Surf Camp Ladyfriends! You are 100% right, they were delightful.
My favorite was the lady who wanted an apartment in the very center of Rome, but absolutely REFUSED to walk up any stairs.
I wonder what ever happened to the family who was moving from (I think) England to… Marrakech? Possibly Casablanca. They were living within the walls of the old city and the guy stayed there for like 6 months renovating while the family went back to England? It is entirely possible I am conflating two episodes. Anyway, it was an awesome house surrounding a tiled atrium but the husband seemed like a weirdo and no one seemed thrilled to be moving to Morocco based on their fleeing back to England while the renovations took place.
They did a follow-up episode for that one! At least, they did if it’s the same one I’m thinking of. The place actually turned out really nice. And I think they ended up using it as a vacation home that they rented out for most of the time.
I saw one where the women getting the apartment on a small island off the coast of West Africa had spent the previous two years or something like that living in the bush in Africa doing relief/aid work. They rhapsodized over every place they saw, with statements like “It has hot water! This is awesome!”
A welcome change from people looking at apartments in 300-year-old buildings and grousing that they don’t have an open-plan kitchen or a dishwasher.
I remember a fascinating one on Easter Island where the woman was a native to the island but moving closer to town because her non-native husband’s job required actual access to the internet or something. It was SUPER interesting and had the same tone of “wow, electric lights!” Though I’m pretty sure they ended up picking a fairly rural place that still didn’t have much in the way of amenities because she didn’t actually want to be that close to other people.
I thought in the Easter Island episode they ended in the house she already built on her families land, because it’s impossible for non-natives to own land or some such.
“This house will not give us tetanus! AMAZING!”
Or the people who HAVE TO BUY a vacation house (in addition to their full-time home) that they will spend MAYBE a month in all year, that must be as close to their American home as possible AND have at least two spare bedrooms “for guests”. Under $500 a month of course.
Pretty sure that last one should be “Nitpicking New Homes in Night Vale”
“Your first mistake was in showing interest in, and indeed acknowledging the very existence of, a condo.”
I would watch the crap out of House Hunters: Night Vale.
MUST HAPPEN.
Faceless Old Woman would be an excellent real estate agent, because she knows what you really NEED.
But why CAN’T I have a move-in ready, historic, open-floor-plan detached house in the heart of London for $300 a month?
I feel vindicated about my house’s non-open floor plan every time I watch a Mike Holmes show and he (nicely) tells the people that their entire house is about to collapse because there isn’t any support holding the second floor up.
I have a burning hatred for open floor plans. Why would I want the mess in my kitchen to be visible from every other spot in the house? Why would I want all the cooking smells to seep into the furniture in the adjacent rooms? Why would I want to increase the risk of the hypersensitive smoke alarm by the front door going off for no reason?
We’ve got the best of both worlds. The kitchen is separated from the living room by a wraparound brick wall that’s got arched windows in it. The bottom of the windows are high enough to block view of the mess on the counter, and the top is low enough to keep smoke and smells more-or-less contained, but whoever’s in the kitchen can talk to whoever’s in the living room while they’re cooking.
Other than the irrational desire to belly up to the window and order a pizza, it works out well.
Mike Holmes is the best. If I had a perilous house (and lived in Canada) I’d call him. He gets shit done, does it correctly, and is nice to the homeowners — while making it clear that the contractors before him fucked shit up.
THANK YOU MALLORY. The people on this show are the worst people on earth
I often sigh and say to my husband, “I’m pretty sure this is why the terrorists hate us.”
Oh, Ronit, you may be overlooking the people on the show about buying private islands. Island Hunters. This is a thing that exists! They will be first against the wall come the Revolution!
Last time I had a sick day I spent the entire time watching House Hunters International. It’s weirdly compelling viewing. My favourite was the one set in Dublin where the woman was really dubious about the “sketchier neighbourhoods”. I grew up in Dublin and no way were they anywhere NEAR the actual sketchy areas, and I very much enjoyed the smash cuts to innocuous splashes graffiti in order to convey ‘danger’.
Also the one set somewhere in Germany with an absolutely manic-eyed / lovely letting agent who clearly thought the house hunter was doolally but was powering through.
I just watched that one and the BEST PART was how she was going to Trinity College to study poverty issues but couldn’t bear the thought of seeing some graffiti on the walls down the street.
I am watching that one right now! This woman is ridiculous. She wants to live in city centre Dublin but hates the idea of neighbours being able to see her.
It’s always been my dream to be a stay-at-home dad.
::slow clap::
I had never wanted to watch this show at all before I read this half an hour ago. Now it’s playing on my TV.
Mallory clearly has too much influence on me.
A friend of mine from college was on HHI once. He and his nearly-fiancee were the ones you want to smash for moving to Nicaragua at age 25.
ETA: through the wonders of Facebook stalking, I have discovered that he and his now-wife and their now-baby still live in Nicaragua and apparently own a restaurant so there’s that
I remember the Morocco one! Every so often there’s one where the people actually buy the interesting house … I remember one where a couple wanted to buy a really old house–REALLY old house–in Italy and after being shown, basically, two literal ruins and a fancy updated place, chose the 12th century ruin that you could only reach by walking up a very steep hill and showed every sign of being happy about the prospect of making it livable. I always wanted to see a follow-up on that one. With HHI, what I love is seeing how different housing is in other places. I tend to blank out the hunters and just look at the houses.
I love that episode! There was a followup! At some point later they showed the renovations and the space was absolutely gorgeous.
I remember the Italy one! Also one where a French guy is trying to start a cheese farm in New Zealand and buys, like, a collection of shacks on a hill and is thrilled about it.
Edit: I lied, it was Nepal. Someplace unlikely for a French cheese farm, anyhow.
My friend and her husband were on HHI last year and I still haven’t seen the episode yet because I didn’t have cable and apparently they weren’t interesting enough to get their episode put on HGTV’s website. Alas.
They were not one of the couples moving to Central America, which is good because I already vowed not to watch any more of those episodes lest I actually find a way to leap through the screen and strangle people for being painfully dumb.
I like to ruin reality shows for myself, and my researches have revealed that most or all of the people on HH and HHI have to have already bought the house, and then they just film two other houses for the show even though the hunters are no longer hunting. And some of the houses they show as “options” aren’t even for sale. Is this true of your friends?
As I recall, yes, it is true. They’d originally applied to be on a show about renovating because they’d bought a fixer upper but got a call asking if they wanted to be on HHI instead.
Kind of a bummer they didn’t get any renovation help out of the deal then, huh? Did they at least get paid?
I don’t think the renovation show was one of the ones that comes in and helps; it was a new one, iirc, and may not have made it onto tv. (It’s been a while since my friend talked about all the details, can you tell?) And they weren’t paid anything, I don’t think.
But if you find that way, you’ll tell us, right?
Absolutely. Anything that discourages the herd of people who come in cooing over only the finest compounds of foreigners locked away from locals must be shared.
I would love to find the narrator of HH/HHI and ask her exactly how many times she’s had to say the phrase “out of their price range”
Or “newlyweds”
Or “granite countertops”
Sounds like a drinking game to me!
Andromeda Dunker. Best name ever.
There is no way that is a real person.
Over my Christmas vacation I discovered TINY HOUSE HUNTERS and it is now my favorite flavor of this show. Everyone on it is BONKERS. The best episode involves a “sound healer” who wants an outdoor bathroom. She eventually gets a yurt.
ALSO once I saw an episode of HHI where it was an unmarried couple moving to….I want to say the US Virgin Islands and she was supporting them both on a waitress salary while trying to start her wedding photography business, and her boyfriend was studying to take some exam and kept vetoing places because he “really wanted to take a break from studying and walk on the beach.” And you could see her getting progressively more frustrated and I kept shouting SHE IS PAYING AND YOU DO NOT NEED THE BEACH TO TAKE A STUDY BREAK SHUT UP AND LET HER PICK. And he was upset because he didn’t think he could live without air conditioning. God it made me want to punch the television.
OH NO YOU CAN GET YOUR DREAM SPACE, BUT YOU WILL HAVE TO BE 15 MINUTES BY TRANSIT FROM THE CITY CENTRE!
I hate these people and their problems.
15 minutes by transit from City Centre is described as suburbs. I suspect this is a lie.
…I feel like the whole point of suburbs for a lot of people is that transit doesn’t even go there, because otherwise the Poors could get you.
There was one in Paris (okay, two) with a woman who collected vintage clothes and she kept wanting GIANT CLOSETS on her TINY BUDGET and looking at her fiance or whoever that guy was with big eyes as if he could will American-size clothes into vintage Parisian apartments and–
That’s when I switched over to Love It or List It and started playing the “open concept” drinking game.
Hahaha! That was me! We had to create “conflict” for tv. Our apartment has two rolling racks and I am perfectly content! (and “whoever that guy was” is my husband.) – Lisa
I have to admit I loved the place with the lofted bedroom and was hoping you’d choose that one!!! But obviously more space and less rent is awesome and logical.
Yay creating “conflict!” And I didn’t find y’all dislikeable at all. The now-husband was super sweet. 🙂
If I were on my choice of these shows I’d go for Property Brothers, and I’d tell them ahead of time that the “last-minute project” would be built-in shelves in the room that would be my office. So that when I mention it they’ve already planned the project.
Thank you so much from the both of us! Yeah, the conflict of me “dying” to live in the 11th and finding a cheap apartment to store my mounds of clothes was very much created to make the episode interesting. Easy going folks don’t make for good reality tv, I suppose! We had a blast filming it and we’re glad we didn’t turn too many people off from continuing to watch the show. So, merci beaucoup de nous!
I’ll check out Property Bros. the next time I’m back home! I would have loved to have had a “last minute project” option! Built-in shelves….excellent.
Oh, there’s ALWAYS a last-minute project. ALWAYS. Usually something ridiculous, like “we NEED the house to have a Man Cave so The Man has a sports-watching and ball-scratching room and The Woman can be free of Man Farts” completely out of the blue.
I’d be way too nice and reasonable and totally be okay with “package” shelves, not hobbit hand-crafted from peacefully-passed-away Ent wood. And hard floors that aren’t linoleum.
i hate watched an episode of HH the other day in which the wife **REFUSED** to even look at anything smaller than 4,000 square feet for their “family of 3” (they had a fucking dog, not a child). she was just 100% insufferable throughout the entire episode.
luckily, it was followed by my favoritest episode of Property Brothers EVER in which the young alt skater couple move from a dark basement studio apartment into a maaaaaybe 1300 sq/ft house and they are ecstatic and appreciative and totally adorable.
wait, did she really really really want to live in some trendy SoCal neighborhood with a “small town” feel, & weren’t they both too young to be buying super-expensive houses? because I (a super infrequent HH viewer) either a) caught that same episode in late December or b) saw a different episode that featured an eerily similar set of horrible people.
that same night I also watched an HH Int’l about this creepy, creepy guy who wanted a resort apartment in the DR, & I was almost in awe of the level of hate he managed to inspire in me.
many episodes feature an eerily similar set of horrible people.
the one detail that sticks in my mind is her turning up her nose at the suggestion that she should share a 10×20 walk-in closet with her husband. you know what else is 10×20? my living room.
Wow, there’s a Property Brothers episode where the buyers AREN’T horrible?!?
YES! there are 2, even. the other is this super chill, happy, down-to-earth couple who you slowly realize are absolutely *swimming* in money. by the end i couldn’t even hate it when they spent what i’ll earn in a year on the perfect kitchen counter top.
I watched one with a so-so young couple, but both their dads pitched in on the renovations and were ADORABLE and had ideas, opinions, and they seemed like best friends. It was so cute.
Is this a magical realism bit? I think this is a magical realism bit. If so, well done.
I have to confess that it was several years of watching HH that gave me the courage to buy my own place. I was well aware of its unrealism (I too have friends whose house appeared on it, filmed after the hunters had already bought someplace else), but it did make me feel more comfortable with the process.
I also really wonder how much shows like HH and all the other home buying/home improvement shows have contributed to the amazing turnaround in general acceptance of LGBT couples that has happened over the last decade. One thing you have to say for HGTV is that they present LGBT people as completely and utterly mainstream in their search for a place to call home. They really have done an awful lot, I think, to counter the attitude of “Oooo, yuck, gays are completely alien to my all-American lifestyle! We have nothing in common!” Well, no. Everyone wants to have a home.
This is true. I saw an episode of HHI about a gay couple and their three kids (who were from a surrogate, I think, because they mentioned her) moving to London. The episode was obnoxious in terms of how much money they had to throw around (or I’m just a jealous shrew) and their exasperation with the number of stairs in a London townhouse. It was not obnoxious at all in how completely fair and LGBT family friendly the show was in terms of language, treatment, etc, of the family.
I feel like I’ve seen quite a number of HH episodes about gay men, which is great, but I don’t actually remember any about lesbian couples! Every time it’s two women buying a house, they’re sisters or best friends or something. Weird.
There was a HHI not too long ago where the show never mentioned their relationship, but the two women were looking at one-bedroom apartments. After the show mentioned one of the women was an author, I looked her up on Amazon and yup, they were definitely a couple. I have no idea if it was the show or the women who made the choice not to mention their relationship, though.
There was an HH International with a lesbian couple moving to Amsterdam. They had twin boys and they were all so cute!
There was a great PB about a lesbian couple and their daughter. They got an amazing teal kitchen that made me very jealous.
I also love that some episodes of House Hunters are basically just the process of a marriage unraveling before your eyes. I really wonder how many end in divorce within a few years, especially the ones that end with “well, it tripled my already horrific commute, but she’s so happy about her dual kitchens, so… *weak smile*”
“Well, I’m now stuck raising three kids in a country where I don’t know the language and we don’t live near anything. The children have to commute an hour to school each day and Scruffy is still in quarantine. Our fridge is smaller than a dorm fridge and during the day I sit silently and weep. But my HUSBAND likes the VIEW, SO I GUESS WE’RE FINE.”
Why would you want to be unable to pull someone aside for a quiet word? Why would you want to have the tv or radio permeate through an entire floor so you’re unable to happily disagree on immediate entertainment? Why would you want significantly less wall space to hang anything on or arrange things around?
Edit: this was meant to be a reply to winterbymorning, re open floor plans.
I would pay real money for a horror anthology series based on twisted parodies of reality shows like this. Unless that’s just the Infomercials series, which I really mean to watch.
THAT SOUNDS LIKE A FUN THING TO WRITE.
BRB planning all of my free time forever.
House Hunters!! also known as how I channel my rage in a non-destructive way. My favorites:
Couple with a baby won’t even consider a house that has the master bedroom on a separate floor (do you really want to sleep next door to a teen? No privacy? wink wink?)
“Whaa I’m moving my wife and children to a foreign country for my job and have to consider their desires! Who cares if the kids have to take an hour long bus to school, I’m a block away from the pubs!”
Then there was that episode where the college grad with no job moved to Spain to live with her equally poor musician boyfriend she met 6 months ago. Even the narrator sounded judgy.
also… long time reader, first time commenter 🙂 Been following this since the Hairpin days and was too shy to post til now. Hi Toasties!
Hey girl heeeeeeeeeeeeey.
STANCHWORTH.
Yeah, that was a super cute apartment, wasn’t it? It was a tough call. We actually ended up having to leave Vincennes for an asbestos issue that occurred shortly after! We now live exactly in between Vincennes and the 11th in the 12th and love it!
Oh man, the in the ones* that I've seen, she usually runs into something that a basic inspection would have discovered and then can only do 1 of the 8 projects she promised.
Also, I don't know why I thought her name was Hildie when a basic google says it's Hilary.
*dozens
And I’m watching the HHI episodes on Netflix while I do homework and I haaaaaaaaaate the “quaint/adorable/authentic/charming” descriptors of local housing, culture, and other features. The couple in Italy with Jennifer who’s going on about the Quaint Italian Charm that she neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds.
That was the one about moving to the mining town in Australia!! He was Aussie, she was Danish, and they'd been living in Copenhagen for most of their relationship but he got a job as a mine geologist at a mine in Coober Pedy. And apparently most people there live in dugout cave homes because living on the surface is ridiculously hot during the day.
I never saw how that one ended, I'm still dying to find out which place they chose and if his wife stuck it out with the kids! She was really concerned about the isolation of the place.
Mallory. My wife and I were filmed for HHI in November (2014) at Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. We have heard from the show and know our episode is in editing and production right now, but we don’t know when it will aire. We are thinking it will be in April or May 2015.
Do you have the inside track on the schedule for upcoming shows? If so, would you look for our show?