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I really liked the couple last night too. Good on him for refusing to call a media room a "man cave" and saying he didn't want segregation in his family! On another note, despite what the realtor and homebuyers said, there were no craftsman or colonial style homes featured last night. Won't someone please teach realtors what different architectural styles are, and help people be brave enough to say the truth, such as "this is an ugly recently-built mcMansion with no discernible style"?

Also, at least as far as I saw (I was kind of watching out of the side of my eye while websurfing) no Clint Harp, which is fine with me. The bloodhound puppies were adorable, though occasionally I wonder if Chip is an animal hoarder.

Georgia to Connecticut couple: we don't want a cookie cutter house! We don't want out house to look like everyone else's! Also: we must have a white kitchen, open concept floor plan, and oh yes let's paint all the wood trim white and the walls gray. Because that's totally original and no one else has that. No cookie cutter here!

I want to see the one that someone on TWOP proposed a while back. "I hate entertaining and people generally. I just want a house with a fast internet connection and a moat."

It's the Minnesota proto-Duggars from last night.

"I don't like having a lot of books in the house, they look like clutter" lady is dead to me.

Find the sister (Google Cincinnati veterinary cardiologist) and you can find the brother.

Howard is a hoarder. I wonder what his house looks like? Maybe I'm too old, but I'm not sure "Bowery Kitchen Supply" is a great name outside of New York. When I hear "Bowery" I think of Skid Row, homeless drunks peeing in the gutter, and grime in general. I know that it's different in New York now, but I'm not sure many people outside of New York are really up on what neighborhoods are now cool and gentrified/gentrifying.

I wonder how legit that "modeling agency" in Miami was. From what we saw, it was in some storefront with all the windows and door covered in metal burglar bars. Most storefront type "modeling agencies" are just scam type places where they will take "management fees" from would-be models and send them out on a photoshoot (which the model has to pay for) on a photographer that the agency selects, in order to improve their portfolio. At least that's the way I've seen them covered on scam-buster type shows. Everyone gets sent out on a photoshoot which they pay for, and the photographer pays a kickback to the modeling agency. Actual modeling jobs rarely come out of it, but all the wannabe models pay a lot for the privilege of upgrading their portfolio and having "professional representation." And I hate to buy into society's norms about what is beautiful or appealing in women, but at 29, Paola is getting a bit long in the tooth to have aspirations for a full-time modeling career, at least the kind she seems interested in.

I had to delete fugly Seattle-to-Sweden dudebro before I even saw one apartment. That made me sad because I love the Nordic countries and look forward to any HHI episodes set there. But he was so vomit-inducing with his fixation on the "nightlife" and sense of entitlement with respect to dating Swedish "supermodels" that I just couldn't continue watching.

The realtor in the Angouleme episode reminded me a little of Robin Williams from some angles, so that made me sad. The couple seemed nice enough, if boring. Those are some decent prices for rental properties though!

I have to disagree somewhat with the assessments of Azan's family. Much of my family is North African -- Egyptian and Algerian -- and the culture of hospitality there is tremendously strong. People enjoy welcoming guests into their home no matter who the guest is -- it is a matter of personal and family honor to treat any guest with warmth and hospitality, and they genuinely enjoy meeting new people and welcoming them. I will say they are probably more likely to be extra-welcoming and dazzled by an American visitor, just as kind of a matter of being awed rather than thinking that particular American could do anything for them. Like, if a member of the British royal family randomly had a car break down outside your house and came in for a refreshment and to wait for assistance, most people would probably be a little thrilled and do their best to be good hosts even if they weren't thinking, hey, this could end well! Maybe they will give me a lot of money and a knighthood! I once went to visit relatives of friends in a tiny Egyptian village -- I was certainly not marrying into the family or touted as someone who could help them, but these people fell over themselves welcoming me into their tiny little house (more of a shack), insisted I sit on their one Western-style chair and drink the one (warm) bottle of Coke they had. Azan's family reminded me of the warm welcome I always received when traveling in the Middle East/North Africa, especially in people's private homes. That said, I did always take care to dress modestly, though I am not Muslim, and learn about and respect local customs.

Any lawyer who agrees to be filmed and broadcast while advising a client is shady, no matter how many waivers of the right to confidentiality the client signs. IMO of course.

I'm a librarian and I really don't want my catered food at an organization event served to me out of hollowed-out books or computer towers.

I loved the kitchen and especially the backsplash. And bless you designer for dismissing white subway tile backsplash as something that "everyone else has" or something close to that. I would have gone with the yellow ceiling, too. Funny that the couple (I really did like them overall) said they weren't afraid of color or boldness but they kept pushing back on things that were too colorful or bold and wanting everything to be neutral or white. @ByaNose I also wanted to see whether they had gotten rid of the ivy and vines on the outside of the house. They really need to. Not only is it unsightly, it's basically a superhighway and luxury condo complex for rats. They get rid of that, they may also cut down on the number of rattlesnakes in the vicinity, since the snakes follow the rats.

That storyboard thing they did was just off-putting. Very self-centered and entitled. No one cares if you grew up near the beach and went skiing at Mammoth. And they were so hurt that people didn't just fall all over themselves at how awesome it, and they, were. Get over yourselves and tell me about the damn watch (and the charity . . . although I'm cynical on that front and tend to think those business-tied charitable efforts are useless or offensive, like Tom's Shoes or the Susan Komen Foundation's pink ribbons and pink-wrapped products for sale in October).

I'm confused, was the family moving to Pisa from Hawaii a FAMILY OF FIVE? And might things "be tight" in the living room/kitchen/bathroom for a FAMILY OF FIVE? The father only mentioned it about 18 times so I am not sure I understood correctly. Seriously, what was his obsession with "color" and "Italian charm"? He kept complaining that the walls were too white and not charming enough . . . was he expecting to move into some modern day version of a Pompeiian villa, with frescoed walls and floors in brilliant colors? To go against the grain a bit, I liked Monaco Ben. I thought it was great that he was willing to work hard and save money for his grad program, plus he seemed to have a sense of humor about himself and his champagne tastes -- to me it came across a lot as being a bit arch and playful, not exactly 100% serious. And he did do a very nice job with his apartment decorating.

I thought the pig was adorable and she was very cute in her little Harry Potter room! And yes, pigs are quite clean when they are allowed to be, and are easier to house train than dogs. They do have an incredibly strong urge to root, which can be a good thing if you want the vinyl tile or carpeting taken up, otherwise not so much. Napa couple with their fixation on hosting other couples -- I decided they were swingers.

I liked Richmond woman more than I thought I was going to, for all of her preciousness about a white kitchen and needing giant closets. I gather art history and archeology weren't on her college course list, since she seemed shocked that stucco could possibly have existed in 1910. Some form of stucco has been used since pre-historical times, I think for at least 10,000 years. I liked the first two houses a lot -- well, I liked the first one until they showed that it overlooked a fast food joint. That would not be for me. But I absolutely loved the second house, the one they ended up buying. I rarely am just overcome with jealousy with respect to the houses shown and purchased on this show, even the ones I really like -- but this one made me just about sick with envy. Seriously.

My new neighbors have an outdoor stereo system and use it to play Nickelback and other horrific "music." Probably a factor in why I had such a violent reaction to the outdoor tv in this episode.

Oh hey, putting up a giant flat screen tv in your back yard in Southern California is a fantastic idea! First of all, it never, ever rains or hails in Southern California, so your tv is in no danger. Second, it's not like you'll have any close neighbors nearby who could possibly be annoyed by your blaring tv. Finally, as we all know, there are no thieves in Southern California and so your tv is perfectly safe and will remain outside in your yard as long as you want it there. Seriously, wtf were they thinking???

I did a little Googling, and I believe the town in Italy that has had a couple of HHI episodes (Scottish painter, NY chef) featuring cheap housing due to a previous earthquake is Guardia Sanframondi. It looks like the earthquake was significantly north of there, maybe 150 miles away? So I doubt there was too much damage in Guardia, if any.

I didn't watch the Tulum episode -- did they address these sorts of ownership problems cropping up in Tulum? Evictions by armed men rattle a Mexican tourist paradise re Bariloche couple - count me among the baffled as to wtf she was doing with him. My guess is that he fancies himself the new Jay McInerney or something.

I don't even think she had a true twin, at least not a fully developed twin. It sounded more like something that maybe would have been a twin but didn't really form or grow after a certain point, what I think is called a vestigial twin or parasitic twin. I don't think a fully developed twin is treated like "they just wrapped it up and wouldn't let me [the mom] see what was attached to her." So the whole "did you miss your twin? Did you feel some mystical connection to the dead lost baby?" line of questioning may have been doubly ridiculous.

I'm getting tired of the doctors going over and over the "tell me how you were bullied" "that must have been very hurtful, correct? Tell me how you were hurt." "Did that ruin your life? Tell me how your life was ruined." "Children are cruel, I bet you got teased a lot. What kind of names did children call you?" etc. etc. We get it, these people have had rough treatment because of issues they had no control over. It sucked. But we don't need them to relive every mean name they were called and how they never went to high school dances or whatever. We can all imagine that just fine without needing to see them bullied by the doctors into reliving it all.