House Hunters International - Page 4

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

I enjoy HHI too. Much more than the American HH. Actually, I wish they showed homes in other countries that were for rent/sale and being bought by the locals instead of Americans. My first husband and I traveled in Europe with his job - some places we had company apartments to live in and some we had to find our own place. We lived in an awesome villa in the south of France for the entire summer once - the gate at the end of the yard opened into a meadow that just became more and more sparse then - viola - you were on a private beach.We lived with my FIL in london in a house that his family had owned for hundreds of years. It was in the east end (bad part of London) and had bomb and straifing damage from WW11 but my FIL and repaired it and still lived there. he said no HUN was going to run his family out of a house they had lived in for that long.Living in such an old house had it's challenges though, like that the bath tub hung on a hook outside the back door. You had to bring it into the kitchen and warm the water on the stove - then there was a hose from the side of the pot to fill the tub with the warm water. The other choice was to use a public shower - men on M-W-F and ladies on T--Th - S and closed Sunday. That was in 1976 so maybe it has improved by now. My DH's brother and his family live there now.

terrier3 · ‎03-10-2010

On 1/26/2014 Marybella said:
I'm more interested in knowing how some of them can pay millions of dollars for properties that are vacation homes.

They just had a single mom, a nurse in CA, with two young adult children.

She bought a vacation home for $400,000 that was in Panama built over water. The toilets were like porta-potties with human "kitty litter."

$400,000 for a vacation home.

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On 1/26/2014 blahblahvampemerblah said:
On 1/25/2014 kachina624 said: I wish they'd discontinue HH International. I'm really not interested in rentals in Paris or home in Roatan. Many of the authentic European places are hovels.

You may not be interested, but it's the only version I care about. There's no law that says you have to watch it...is there?

I enjoy HHI too. It doesn't really matter where, I find almost all of the locations interesting.