House Hunters - General Discussion

[buttersister]

Deleted en masse, including several local eps I was saving. Then deleted record all command. F off, HGTV. It’s holiday time so it’s rerunpalooza of everything, including stuff I passed on the first time. Looking at you (location) Life.

I’ll keep an eye out for new seasons of a few shows, but two whack jobs whining in South Dakota? Or vocal fry debating countertops in Florida? I’m out.

Edited December 1, 2024 by buttersister
Changed ill to I’ll, but enjoyed the Freudian AI typo.

[Dirge]

Bentonville AR. Didn't particularly care which house they picked. I was too busy telling the realtor that "the word is not EXpecially." 

[kirklandia]

I watched the episode featuring the extended family moving from Kirkland WA to Libertyville IL with great interest.
I made the opposite move - grew up in Libertyville and moved to Kirkland - way back In 1977.  
It was fun to get a look at my old hometown.  I'm not planning to move back, but it is certainly interesting to compare housing costs.
They bought the house in June.   At that time, the median sale price for a single-family home in Libertyville was $680K.  In Kirkland - $1.6 million. 

[cameron]

5 hours ago, kirklandia said:

I watched the episode featuring the extended family moving from Kirkland WA to Libertyville IL with great interest.
I made the opposite move - grew up in Libertyville and moved to Kirkland - way back In 1977.  
It was fun to get a look at my old hometown.  I'm not planning to move back, but it is certainly interesting to compare housing costs.
They bought the house in June.   At that time, the median sale price for a single-family home in Libertyville was $680K.  In Kirkland - $1.6 million. 

Thought they were an interesting duo.

 

[chessiegal]

According to the Best Bets tv guide in my paper, there will be a new HH tonight at 10 pm ET featuring sisters looking for a home in Maryland large enough to accommodate the pair and their numerous pets. 

[laredhead]

Washington to Libertyville, Illinois - I got so tired of listening to the husband talk about how he wanted to be able to walk to get coffee.  The man must have a coffee habit.  Also, if you concerned about budget, coffee shop coffee isn't cheap.  The wife was the practical one regarding $$, pointing out that college tuition would be looming in the coming years.

The house they chose was the most practical for them, and I hope her parents can continue to climb the stairs from their basement apartment for many years to come.

[snarts]

HGTV's been promoting this new episode every day in the new year thing.  Took a chance & recorded last night but it's just repackaged vacation/beach/lake hunters again (Panama City & somewhere on the Louisiana coast).

[laredhead]

The HH episode last night about the couple buying a "full time" house in Cameron Parish Louisiana was a repackaged vacation/beach house episode.  There is no way those people are living full time in that area with a child in high school.  I live in Louisiana, and Cameron Parish has been hit hard by several hurricanes over the past few years.  There is a reason that some scenes showed large areas of vacant land.  It's because the houses that used to be there were destroyed by storm surge and wind.  Insurance costs have risen dramatically, so they are paying a pretty penny for that, if they have it.  You are usually required to carry insurance if you have a mortgage.  Oh, and the little scene that referenced the dirt and sand that had washed into the driveway of one of the houses they viewed, and the realtor brushed it off as a usual event after a storm, made me laugh.  If that's the result of a summer thunder storm, they need to think many times about what it will look like with a Cat 2 or 3 or higher hits that area.  I heard the daughter say it doesn't look like Austin, and I bet they live in Austin and have a nice, big house there on a permanent basis.  One more little annoying thing, the husband kept talking about his ocean view - it's the Gulf of Mexico, not an ocean, so it's a Gulf view.  I know of no one who lives here who declares it an ocean view.  If you did, people would think you were talking about the Atlantic or Pacific.        

[CrazyInAlabama]

All of last night's episodes were repackaged or rerun HH or beachfront, or HHI episodes.   

One was the Vanuatu episode where the woman wanted to live off the grid, but then was worried about where she was going to poop.   Interesting to read about living there, it's very remote.  It's over 1,000 miles from Australia.  Limited healthcare, and very high cost of living. 

Edited Saturday at 03:26 AM by CrazyInAlabama

[kirklandia]

I sure hope HGTV finishes their epic program recycling project soon.

I'm getting tired of trying to figure out what is new content - without actually starting to watch it. I tried doing a little research by looking up season and episode numbers, and I just gave up.

(I do have to confess I saved all 50 of the individual state episodes that were shown in a marathon after Thanksgiving. There have been surprisingly few that I remembered. I should work my way through the rest of them over the next week…)

[cameron]

The Manchester NH couple on last night's show were a piece of work.

[Baltimore Betty]

1 hour ago, cameron said:

The Manchester NH couple on last night's show were a piece of work.

I was in Manchester in November, it was a charming town, (we went to tour two Frank lloyd Wright houses), I was amazed that there is a Southern New Hampshire University Arena, I thought it was a diploma mill!