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You hear it on HGTV because shows like House Hunters are staged and HGTV is there to make money from its sponsors,
This this this x 1000!! HGTV shows are just filler to make sure people watch ads. No different from soap operas. How does Proctor and Gamble make sure women watch their commercials? They put little stories of betrayal and evil twin sisters between the commercials. HGTV is just another version. Look at the shows. 50% of the time is spent recapping what they already showed us, and it's all ridiculous. Quick fix-ups for budget prices and we don't see the team of 50-100 contactors who actually did all the work. And we just sit there going OMG I want! Then we get the store and all we can afford is the Black & Decker drill!
I guess I get rather depressed when I watch HGTV...
We can't afford a $600,000 home but it seems everyone else can.. especially on HGTV. honestly it's depressing! We are a middle to upper middle family and have bank approvals for a 300K home but have worked 15-20 years for it! Everyone we know has a 300K to a million dollar home and it makes me wonder... HOW? is everyone a CEO, Vice President or Doctor? I thought the average income per family in the 45-65K range... but yet it seems like there are way more people buying 300K+ homes than less priced homes! WEIRD! did i miss something somewhere? are middle class people renting until they save enough for their 300K+ home?
I'm also wondering how on HGTV "Molly and Jim are just out of college and have a budget of $700,000...." how the heck do you just get out of college and afford $700,000 home? and EVERY EPISODE IS JUST LIKE THAT?! it's either all staged, they pick through to find the most outrageous incomes to aire a better episode or people are really richer than we thought! anybody want to agree or have input on this?!?
OHHH an btw, I live in the south... not in an area with a high cost of living.
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Originally Posted by katy07
I guess I get rather depressed when I watch HGTV...
We can't afford a $600,000 home but it seems everyone else can.. especially on HGTV. honestly it's depressing! We are a middle to upper middle family and have bank approvals for a 300K home but have worked 15-20 years for it! Everyone we know has a 300K to a million dollar home and it makes me wonder... HOW? is everyone a CEO, Vice President or Doctor? I thought the average income per family in the 45-65K range... but yet it seems like there are way more people buying 300K+ homes than less priced homes! WEIRD! did i miss something somewhere? are middle class people renting until they save enough for their 300K+ home?
I'm also wondering how on HGTV "Molly and Jim are just out of college and have a budget of $700,000...." how the heck do you just get out of college and afford $700,000 home? and EVERY EPISODE IS JUST LIKE THAT?! it's either all staged, they pick through to find the most outrageous incomes to aire a better episode or people are really richer than we thought! anybody want to agree or have input on this?!?
I'm also wondering how on HGTV "Molly and Jim are just out of college and have a budget of $700,000...." how the heck do you just get out of college and afford $700,000 home? and EVERY EPISODE IS JUST LIKE THAT?! it's either all staged, they pick through to find the most outrageous incomes to aire a better episode or people are really richer than we thought! anybody want to agree or have input on this?!?
They NEED a 700K home because Molly is an aspiring chef and Jim is a promising musician.
They NEED a 700K, 4 bedroom, 3 bath home with granite, stainless, hardwood. She NEEDS the kitchen and he NEEDS the extra rooms to store his instruments.
They also NEED an open floor plan for jam sessions.
They also NEED to move out of their parents basement.
Oh and Muffin, the 6 pound Shih Tzu NEEDS a large fenced in yard!
OHHH an btw, I live in the south... not in an area with a high cost of living.
I never understood that either.
I wonder what everyone does for a living to afford those homes. It's not like everyone is making $400K per year. A lot of it is for show, and they are in debt up to their eye balls.
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Yep, these shows are quite scripted down to the comments and each tired quip "these two closets will work for me the wife exclaims, where are yours, snicker snicker?"
That bugs me to no end, too! The joke is so old, it's just not funny anymore. Yet they say it on there all. the. time. Between that and "this kitchen will be perfect for entertaining." Buy your house for "perfect for everyday use" because entertaining probably happens once or twice per year. You want the house to work for the rest of the time! Ugh!
My mom used to laugh at the shows where they'd walk into a kitchen and say, "it will have to be completely redone." My mom's comment: that kitchen is more updated than mine, and I live with it just fine!
To be fair, some of us do entertain an awful lot - I usually have a formal dinner party once a month, a cocktail party every few months, and more casual dinner parties a few times per month. And i host a brunch every 6 weeks. So it was important to me to have a house that was geared for entertaining.
I do get amused by the enormous yards some people want, though, especially if the yard is for a dog. Seems to be an inverse relationship between the people size of the dog & the size of the yard!
To be fair, some of us do entertain an awful lot - I usually have a formal dinner party once a month, a cocktail party every few months, and more casual dinner parties a few times per month. And i host a brunch every 6 weeks. So it was important to me to have a house that was geared for entertaining.
I do get amused by the enormous yards some people want, though, especially if the yard is for a dog. Seems to be an inverse relationship between the people size of the dog & the size of the yard!
So you entertain about 30 days/year ... still leaves 335 days/year for everyday life.
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