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Jobs?

posted 9 years ago by aevansjr35
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Watching this show I wonder what the jobs are of some of these people buying 1.1 million dollar homes like its nothing. Makes me feel like less of a person :(

[–] Mustang_Mama13 9 years ago

I've wondered that too. Also, they have lots of $$$$$$$$$$$$$$ for the renovations. If they have so much money, why have they not bothered to fix things that are broken? Like in one show, one of the bathrooms was non functioning. Yet they had like $75,000 for renovations. Why not hire a plumber instead of going years without that bathroom??

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[–] aevansjr35 9 years ago

Exactly! So fake on so many levels. I wonder how much of the budgets HGTV paid the money.

[–] timcooper62-111-187212 8 years ago

you see that in Flip or Flop as well....what do people do for a living out there to be able to afford 500 K for a 1200 sq ft house in a crappy neighborhood

[–] eiy 8 years ago

Housing cost are different from location to location. People pay the price they pay with a combination of 1) A pay scale that also adjust (to a degree) to the local living cost, and 2) % of household income allocated to housing (in most of the US, the standard is 25%-30% of gross income goes into housing. In San Francisco, for example, the standard is 50%).

[–] AmyJolamb 8 years ago

That's how my husband explained it saying in CA things cost more and people are paid more to cover the cost but still a million dollar home?!? Wow

[–] eiy 8 years ago

Not everything costs more (food is actually pretty reasonably priced here), but, yeah, housing cost is ridiculous.

A 2 bed-room, 1.5 bathroom, just slightly over 1000 sq ft, in Palo Alto can sell for $1.4M. Nuts.

[–] maya-912-366050 8 years ago

The earlier seasons were in Toronto, there is of course Vancouver one as well. These are the 2 most expensive cities in Canada to live in. They are like the Manhattan and SF of Canada. But you will find Canadian house prices are quite a bit higher across the country than the US. I watch 'House Hunters' and am shocked when they have like a 120,000 budget and a wish list. I live in a city that isn't very high on the expensive city list in Canada. You'd get a trailer for that. Even a 2 bedroom condo will cost you well over 200,000.

[–] AmyJolamb 8 years ago

Tell me about! Since we go Sling which is streaming tv like Netflix I'm loving watching HGTV again. I like watching the house hunting shows or fixing upper shows. One show had a newlywed couple with a newborn. The couple looked in their early twenties but had a house budget of a million dollars! My husband and I have been married almost 22yrs and no way we could afford a million dollar home!

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[–] darogr 8 years ago

It's kind of crazy. Shows like this and "House Hunters" and "House Hunters INTERFRIGGINNATIONAL" and "Log Cabin Hunters" etc. etc. etc.
You would think that the United States was full of wealthy people, when in reality, most people are living paycheck to paycheck.
I don't understand how these shows find an audience, unless it's "Hatewatching".

[–] ilovemyrv 8 years ago

I don't understand how these shows find an audience, unless it's "Hatewatching".

LOL you came up with the perfect phrase for when I watch these shows.

And to the OP, you're not alone-- sometimes when I watch these shows I wonder where I took a wrong turn in my life, that I can't (and never will) afford these fancy places or updates. Sometimes I get a tiny bit jealous, but then I remember it's not the house it's who's inside of it that counts.