this is just too much


I appreciate how great the tree houses are and all, but some part of me thinks that a tree house should be something that an average Dad and his kids can build together without a 5 or 6 figure budget. It just deflates my memories of childhood tree houses where we used spare lumber, nails, tarps and other junk to make a private place for us kids. These tree houses on the show are really just luxury homes with a tree in them. Its like building a full size Macy's and calling it a lemonade stand.

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Yeah I agree but then again this guy wouldn't be making a living if he wasn't building for people with excessive expandable income.

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I had the same feeling watching this show. In times when most people are struggling to keep their heads above water...this is just being ostentatious. And I've never been one to begrudge people who have money, but this whole concept makes me uncomfortable.

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Completely agree. And the emotional strings they try to pull? I watched an episode and at the end I turned to my husband and said "There are people in the world who can't afford to buy a regular house, and I'm supposed to get misty-eyed over some rich family's treehouse?" No thank you.

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Nobody should build an extravagant treehouse until everyone on Earth is rich and can get one if they choose, right? Upper middle class is THE DEVIL!

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Thank you. I'm a proud liberal from way back, but damn, these rich guys aren't hurting anybody by getting a treehouse. It's not like they're polluting the rivers or something.

When I was a kid, I got together with some cousins and we built a little slap-together clubhouse on the ground. It takes nothing away from my memories of that rickety shack if I turn on the TV and see Graceland.

BTW, that day when everybody on Earth (or wherever) can afford an extravagant treehouse if they want it? It's coming. Not soon enough to suit me, but it's a'comin'.


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler.
- Jon Stewart

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First off, don't tell me what I know. Tell me what YOU know; that'll be information I don't already have, and you're much more likely to know what you're typing about.

If wages had kept pace with productivity, the average working stiff in the US would be making 90 thousand dollars a year. This of course has not happened, and the average working stiff in the US is getting sick of it.

Up to now, the average working stiff in the US has been persuaded to vote against his best economic issues because the same party which wants to keep him back has also seduced him with social issues. Sure wages have remained flat for a generation, but hey, what about the loose women and the hippies and the Mexicans?! Oh my God, the Mexicans!! And sure I can't afford to send my kids to college, but the queers are wanting to get married!!! AAAAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!

Well the loose women are still around, there's more porn than ever, and the Mexicans aren't going away. And guess what, gay marriage is spreading. And Mr. Average Joe: your wages haven't gone up in real terms in over FORTY YEARS. And a whole new generation is reaching voting age, a generation that isn't worried about blacks, women, or even Mexicans very much, and who accept gay marriage without batting an eye. A generation who knows how to google, and who may not be sure what a hippie even is (or was), but who does understand that the times, they are a changin'.

So yes, that day is coming.


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler.
- Jon Stewart

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All very real problems. None of them have jack to do with treehouses.

So do we just cry WOE ONTO OUR AGE! and lie down and die? Or do we remember that slavery became more popular just before it was abolished, that racial violence escalated just as civil rights were being won, and that before there was the New Deal, there was the Great Depression? Things WILL get better; they always do. Of course, things will only get better if there are people who think that they can.

There are some good signs, really there are. For all the shortcomings of the ACA aka Obamacare, the jack-booted thugs have failed to show up to kick in hospital room doors and forcibly unplug Grandma. A majority of Americans now support the legalization of marijuana, and marriage equality is quickly becoming a non-issue. As bad as the off-shoring of American jobs is for Americans, it does at least have the side effect of raising the standard of living in whatever country the jobs are relocated to.

I particularly like your support of a basic income guarantee (some noted conservatives have also supported the idea, so it has some transpartisan appeal). And, the idea is gaining traction. Again, a good sign.

And some rich family not getting a treehouse won't make the difference.


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not Hitler.
- Jon Stewart

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Yeah! he basically builds treehouses for rich people, and it's funny that some of the episodes I've seen at the beginning of the show Pete pretty much asks right away the budget of his clients, what! if the client's budget isn't quite a considerable amount, he's no gonna build for them or what?

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No lol. He asks them their budget before coming up with a design, so that he can come up with a design that best suits their needs and wishes, while also staying inside their budget. He will build anyone a treehouse, but the reason you see mostly rich couples or families on the show, is because most people who are not necessarily rich, but well off, do not choose to spend that money on a treehouse lol.

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I love this show! My dad built me a treehouse when I was about 10 yrs. old. He built it out of scrap wood and 2 old garage doors. It was basically a one-room shack with tar paper on the outside walls and roof to keep it dry inside. Not pretty, but it worked for me. The best part was, he was a lineman for the electric co., so my treehouse was one of only 2 in Dorset, VT that had electricity! In 1962! It was quite a way up in the woods, and I slept in it every night, all summer long, even during thunderstorms! Absolutely one of my favorite childhood memories, and the reason why I like this show so much.

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But isn't the point of the programme to show masterful grand treehouses? If Pete and his team just created a basic small treehouse that a 9yr old and his mates could create I'm pretty sure nobody would be interested in watching.

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Well said!

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Yeah! If it's not a poorly crafted death trap in a tree, it'tain'tnar treehoos! RABBLERAH.

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