Post by thinkofthesoldiers on May 2, 2013 21:55:14 GMT -5
I fucking HATE when people are like, "ZOMG it is so dangerous for little Tommy! What if he climbs the banister/falls down the hill/whatever?" (I give a pass to the pool stuff because they are legitimately worrisome, even with kids who can swim.) Look, keep an eye on your kid, child-proof stuff/lock doors/etc, and little Tommy will make it to be annoying tween.
I'm watching HHI right now and these people are like, "Gosh this balcony that is 14 floors above the earth is sooo dangerous!" Well, duh, but don't people live in apartments/condos with raised balconies all the time? What about people with 2 story decks attached to their house? Come on.
Yep. I was like "how bout you lock the patio door? Dummy." I would have gone for the cheaper high rise w/ the in house laundry.
ME TOO. I hate doing laundry and it is just down in the basement. I remember hauling shit to the laundrymat years ago and hated it. With a kid? No way. And yes to the door. LOCK IT DOWN.
Post by Booze Raccoon on May 2, 2013 22:05:37 GMT -5
I just watched that one. I think they made the wrong pick. Yes, watch your kid and the fact that she can vocalize seeing her son plummet to his death bothered me. I didn't like her and her husband was too cute for her!
Yeah. Uhm, kids grow up, so maybe don't buy your "forever home" based on a three-year-old.
No to mention it was just a rental apartment!!!
Echoing the comments about entertaining ... you're moving to a foreign country where you don't know anyone and don't even speak the language. Who is coming over?
Yeah. Uhm, kids grow up, so maybe don't buy your "forever home" based on a three-year-old.
No to mention it was just a rental apartment!!!
Echoing the comments about entertaining ... you're moving to a foreign country where you don't know anyone and don't even speak the language. Who is coming over?
They are all assholes on that show.
Probably the nurses and doctors that will have to take care of poor, accident-prone little Tommy.
A CW of mine was on it when he lived in Portland with his Ex-wife. I was watching reruns one night and all of a sudden he was on my screen! He was not pleased that I found him. haha
"Open concept, open concept, we love to entertain" ... Same shit every show.
I want to be on the show and say I HATE PEOPLE CLOSED CONCEPT! I NEED WALLS SO WHEN SOMEONE COMES TO MY DOOR THEY DON'T SEE HOW TRASHED MY KITCHEN IS. MMKAY?!
i love this show and don't care if it's staged. i love to hate people who allegedly entertain and don't understand the fact that walls can be painted. i like when annoying people pick the house i liked the least, i feel they deserved it. ha. international is my absolute fave.
Post by Mrs. ChanandlerBong on May 2, 2013 22:41:00 GMT -5
They taped in our area a few years ago. The town they were focusing on is a good 45 minute to 1 hour drive from our house.
The obligatory footage of all the cute homes and how wonderful the town looks? They were shot one street over from us. 45 minutes away from the town where they were "hunting".
Post by shostakovich on May 2, 2013 23:51:14 GMT -5
I don't have cable, but got briefly obsessed with this show a couple of Christmases ago when we were visiting my folks.
But I eventually had to turn it off and walk away because this couple was OBSESSED with this California king bed they had just bought, and were weighing every house strictly by whether the bedrooms would fit their California king. "Well, I love the heated pool and extra large, perfectly manicured backyard. The totally rehabbed kitchen with ultra efficient appliances is nice. It's basically everything everyone is ever looking for in a house. But, hmmm, the master bedroom was a little small for our California king bed." They said California king about forty times in the episode, and I wanted to strangle them both.
/end rant (I guess I was more worked up about that episode than I thought!)
Whatcha want to know about the fake stuff? We were going to be on it but backed out because of the filming requirements (no way we could swing the time as it was over the holidays and had some crazy work stuff going on).
Yeah, you don't film until you're in escrow on the house you're going to buy...it does all happen in reverse. We got hooked up witha producer through our REA. You do a phone interview witha producer so they can figure out if you are crazy town or not. Then you fill out a questionaire (lomgggg) and film a home video style tour of your house (where you are encouraged to do so with flare and emphasize the thing you like/dislike vs. your H's)
Then, if you get picked, you have to commit to 3 (or 5? It's been over a year so I don't recall) full days of shooting. Tons of releases involved for the homes that get shown yardda yadda.
I fucking HATE when people are like, "ZOMG it is so dangerous for little Tommy! What if he climbs the banister/falls down the hill/whatever?" (I give a pass to the pool stuff because they are legitimately worrisome, even with kids who can swim.) Look, keep an eye on your kid, child-proof stuff/lock doors/etc, and little Tommy will make it to be annoying tween.
I'm watching HHI right now and these people are like, "Gosh this balcony that is 14 floors above the earth is sooo dangerous!" Well, duh, but don't people live in apartments/condos with raised balconies all the time? What about people with 2 story decks attached to their house? Come on.
I don't know specifically what episode you are referring to but we just happened to go house hunting for a new place in Europe and every place I looked at , my top priority was safety for my kids. # 1 was outdoor space/balcony and #2 was stair situation.
I would NEVER want a place with a balcony that does not have at least a 4 1/2 ft tall enclosure and many of those enclosures would not pass my inspection of a little kids foot getting wedged between the enclosure and the free air space outside it. I look at every stairwell to see if I can adequately gate them b/c in Europe people love to have steep stairs and make them modern looking -- it's hard to attach a safe baby gate to a stair wall that is a full panel of glass with no support (A tension gate would break it).
Those were the main 2 sticking points for me in a new place. So, I can totally side with the family that is freaked out with a 14 story balcony. Most balconies do not have a 4 1/2 ft high railing -- at least the ones I saw -- only 2 apartments passed my inspection of a tall enough safety enclosure.
But yes I agree to your point, people need to watch their kids, lock the doors etc. But accidents do happen when a parent is not looking.
I fucking HATE when people are like, "ZOMG it is so dangerous for little Tommy! What if he climbs the banister/falls down the hill/whatever?" (I give a pass to the pool stuff because they are legitimately worrisome, even with kids who can swim.) Look, keep an eye on your kid, child-proof stuff/lock doors/etc, and little Tommy will make it to be annoying tween.
I'm watching HHI right now and these people are like, "Gosh this balcony that is 14 floors above the earth is sooo dangerous!" Well, duh, but don't people live in apartments/condos with raised balconies all the time? What about people with 2 story decks attached to their house? Come on.
The bigger reason this bothers me is that their child will not be 2 forever, they you know, grow up. I've seen people bitch about stairs on that show. "Oh, I don't know about all these stairs with the baby." WTMF? Are you going to have a child who will forever be stairs-challenged?
I actually joke that H, who grew up in a ranch style house, has issues with stairs for this reason. lol
I fucking HATE when people are like, "ZOMG it is so dangerous for little Tommy! What if he climbs the banister/falls down the hill/whatever?" (I give a pass to the pool stuff because they are legitimately worrisome, even with kids who can swim.) Look, keep an eye on your kid, child-proof stuff/lock doors/etc, and little Tommy will make it to be annoying tween.
I'm watching HHI right now and these people are like, "Gosh this balcony that is 14 floors above the earth is sooo dangerous!" Well, duh, but don't people live in apartments/condos with raised balconies all the time? What about people with 2 story decks attached to their house? Come on.
I don't know specifically what episode you are referring to but we just happened to go house hunting for a new place in Europe and every place I looked at , my top priority was safety for my kids. # 1 was outdoor space/balcony and #2 was stair situation.
I would NEVER want a place with a balcony that does not have at least a 4 1/2 ft tall enclosure and many of those enclosures would not pass my inspection of a little kids foot getting wedged between the enclosure and the free air space outside it. I look at every stairwell to see if I can adequately gate them b/c in Europe people love to have steep stairs and make them modern looking -- it's hard to attach a safe baby gate to a stair wall that is a full panel of glass with no support (A tension gate would break it).
Those were the main 2 sticking points for me in a new place. So, I can totally side with the family that is freaked out with a 14 story balcony. Most balconies do not have a 4 1/2 ft high railing -- at least the ones I saw -- only 2 apartments passed my inspection of a tall enough safety enclosure.
But yes I agree to your point, people need to watch their kids, lock the doors etc. But accidents do happen when a parent is not looking.
How do the billions of Europeans who live like this already manage child safety?
I don't know specifically what episode you are referring to but we just happened to go house hunting for a new place in Europe and every place I looked at , my top priority was safety for my kids. # 1 was outdoor space/balcony and #2 was stair situation.
I would NEVER want a place with a balcony that does not have at least a 4 1/2 ft tall enclosure and many of those enclosures would not pass my inspection of a little kids foot getting wedged between the enclosure and the free air space outside it. I look at every stairwell to see if I can adequately gate them b/c in Europe people love to have steep stairs and make them modern looking -- it's hard to attach a safe baby gate to a stair wall that is a full panel of glass with no support (A tension gate would break it).
Those were the main 2 sticking points for me in a new place. So, I can totally side with the family that is freaked out with a 14 story balcony. Most balconies do not have a 4 1/2 ft high railing -- at least the ones I saw -- only 2 apartments passed my inspection of a tall enough safety enclosure.
But yes I agree to your point, people need to watch their kids, lock the doors etc. But accidents do happen when a parent is not looking.
How do the billions of Europeans who live like this already manage child safety?
They don't worry like us American moms do. In Switzerland the kids walk to school BY THEMSELVES as young as FOUR years old. The Swiss live in la la land b/c nothing major/bad has happened here.
Post by foundmylazybum on May 3, 2013 6:31:54 GMT -5
Lol @switzerland. I also wondered about a lot of the same things you did when we went to Italy--"Where are all the SCREENS for these windows!?" "OMG. Is that a child peeking out across the way!?"
Lol @switzerland. I also wondered about a lot of the same things you did when we went to Italy--"Where are all the SCREENS for these windows!?" "OMG. Is that a child peeking out across the way!?"
Oh Europeans.
Oh yeah I have plenty of stories on how american parenting differs from swiss/europeans.... I had a swiss mom last year meet us at the badi (pool). Our kids DO NOT know how to swim.... she strips her clothes of and lays out in her bikini flat (so she is not watching her 2 yo) and begins to talk on the phone to a friend.... the 2 yo is playing all around the pool and an accident was just waiting to happen.... it's like they assume everyone else is helping to watch their kid so they can sit back and relax -- so crazy!
I have "heard" thru the grapevine that the swiss will just leave their kids in bed sleeping in their rooms and physically leave the apartment with the door locked to go out and have dinner.... no need to get a sitter when the kid is sleeping, right?
Just 3 weeks ago I met another swiss friend at an indoor pool. Her son goes on the big water slide all by himself and it was like no big deal.... I cringed at the thought of my 3 yo walking up 2 flights of stairs and going down the slide by herself. I watched her like a hawk from below but was so fearful yet didn't want to freak out and be a typical american mom. 3 yo did fine by herself but wow, it was HIGH up there to get to the water slide. But for them, it's like no big deal, the kid will be fine.
I don't have cable, but got briefly obsessed with this show a couple of Christmases ago when we were visiting my folks.
But I eventually had to turn it off and walk away because this couple was OBSESSED with this California king bed they had just bought, and were weighing every house strictly by whether the bedrooms would fit their California king. "Well, I love the heated pool and extra large, perfectly manicured backyard. The totally rehabbed kitchen with ultra efficient appliances is nice. It's basically everything everyone is ever looking for in a house. But, hmmm, the master bedroom was a little small for our California king bed." They said California king about forty times in the episode, and I wanted to strangle them both.
/end rant (I guess I was more worked up about that episode than I thought!)
I saw one guy who was so obsessed with having a screened in porch, it was all he could think about. He said "screened in porch" aboooooout 400 times in the half hour he was on my screen. He was so obnoxious. They were also delusional. "We want a house with land, lots of square footage, a new kitchen, screened in porch, and a basement so I can use my 5 tvs for football [not kidding about the tvs] for 400k in Arlington, VA." Are you guys drunk?
The agent at one point said "I don't know what they are looking for or how to make these people happy." I can only imagine how much more annoying these people were in real life.
Dude- move the eff to Manassas and call it a day. I HATE these people. They were on while DH and I were crazy into the house hunt and they suuuuucked.
Lol @switzerland. I also wondered about a lot of the same things you did when we went to Italy--"Where are all the SCREENS for these windows!?" "OMG. Is that a child peeking out across the way!?"
Oh Europeans.
Oh yeah I have plenty of stories on how american parenting differs from swiss/europeans.... I had a swiss mom last year meet us at the badi (pool). Our kids DO NOT know how to swim.... she strips her clothes of and lays out in her bikini flat (so she is not watching her 2 yo) and begins to talk on the phone to a friend.... the 2 yo is playing all around the pool and an accident was just waiting to happen.... it's like they assume everyone else is helping to watch their kid so they can sit back and relax -- so crazy!
I have "heard" thru the grapevine that the swiss will just leave their kids in bed sleeping in their rooms and physically leave the apartment with the door locked to go out and have dinner.... no need to get a sitter when the kid is sleeping, right?
Just 3 weeks ago I met another swiss friend at an indoor pool. Her son goes on the big water slide all by himself and it was like no big deal.... I cringed at the thought of my 3 yo walking up 2 flights of stairs and going down the slide by herself. I watched her like a hawk from below but was so fearful yet didn't want to freak out and be a typical american mom. 3 yo did fine by herself but wow, it was HIGH up there to get to the water slide. But for them, it's like no big deal, the kid will be fine.