Community Chat

[Animal Lover]

A few things I've noticed.

*In some Euro countries there's graffiti everywhere! Beautiful ancient buildings ruined by it. Ewww.

*A budget of $2500 per month buys you very little, even in some podunk Euro towns.

[Marienkaefer2]

Well it's all relative.

[bells4me]

I have no desire to live in Europe, but it is very expensive. No wonder all those people demand everything they do. I could never be a realtor.

[madzonie]

Some folks on a show last night were thinking of paying $4000 a month for a place in Australia.

[BellaPaprika]

Their graffiti doesn't generally indicate gang activity the way it does here. So you will find graffiti in fairly nice parts of major cities in France, Italy, Spain, etc.. It's often political in nature or sometimes romantic.

[Pqfan]

I love HH international.

The houses in some cases are very expensive and such a wreck.

The people say they will fix it up but when they go back it looks almost the same way!

I think they don't realize what they are getting into when the buy such a messed up house.

[Burnsite]

I love it. It's not too different from the US rental climate, but the US House Hunters concentrates on upper end housing for sale. HHI usually is showing rental houses.

I love the real Tuscan houses, olive trees and a bread oven, but usually no refrigerator. Beautiful houses. Always a lovely bathroom, too.

It makes me smile when people on "regular" house hunters say they are looking for a "Tuscan kitchen". Probably the same lady would be wrathful if her prospective houses didn't have refrigerators the size of Rhode Island. Americans are spoiled. Tuscany is a lifestyle, not a house-design. And the houses are old and patina-ed with time.

I love the Asian HH episodes, because that is something I would really like to do.

[terrier3]

On 1/25/2014 BlueCollarBabe said:

Their graffiti doesn't generally indicate gang activity the way it does here. So you will find graffiti in fairly nice parts of major cities in France, Italy, Spain, etc.. It's often political in nature or sometimes romantic.

I was in Trier, a city in Germany founded by the Romans.

There is graffiti on the aquaducts,,,from the time the Romans ruled there, over 2,000 years ago!

[muttmom]

On 1/25/2014 Burnsite said:

I love it. It's not too different from the US rental climate, but the US House Hunters concentrates on upper end housing for sale. HHI usually is showing rental houses.

I love the real Tuscan houses, olive trees and a bread oven, but usually no refrigerator. Beautiful houses. Always a lovely bathroom, too.

It makes me smile when people on "regular" house hunters say they are looking for a "Tuscan kitchen". Probably the same lady would be wrathful if her prospective houses didn't have refrigerators the size of Rhode Island. Americans are spoiled. Tuscany is a lifestyle, not a house-design. And the houses are old and patina-ed with time.

I love the Asian HH episodes, because that is something I would really like to do.

Tuscany is a region. Many older homes have similar design based on the climate and the location. Much is farmland but a lot is and has always been city. Some borders the sea but a lot of it is inland.

[banjo]

When my husband and I lived in Spain (1970 to 1974) we rented a house with 3 bedrooms, living room, kitchen, bath, a beautiful patio with a small swimming pool for $100 month, all utilities included. I hate to think what it would cost now to live there.