Posted: Apr 13, 2010 2:10 pm
I'm With Stupid wrote:No, I think in the UK, most first time buyers are more interested in getting a house. Any house. If it doesn't need too much work doing to it, and has enough bedrooms to fit everyone in, that's a bonus. As a result, these terrible aspirational property programmes normally have slightly older people on, who are as insufferable as the people you talk about.
What I'm guessing you don't have to put up with over there are the endless shows about people doing it abroad as well, where they want exactly what their imagination has decided rural France or Spain should look like.
Oh I agree! I'm just proud to own a house - any house. I love our 3 bed semi on ex-council estate (well still 25% council tenants) simply because it's ours. It's far from "perfect" and there's a lot we can do to improve it, but we've been so busy filling the spare bedroom with extra children that home improvements have taken to the back-burner. Actually -you could say that filling the house with children is doing home improvements. We have a bog-standard property, but an amazing home.
Large, sprawling, grand properties can be wonderful, but I sure as hell wouldn't want the heating bill! And they can be characterless.