oliverandlisa

A place in the sun - in Perth

More 4 now channel 165 on Sky

Dont know about cable and freeview


Lisa.

bruce67

Ntl ch 166 or 1 hour later on ch167.

Buzzy--Bee

Wow - some of those house were soooo gorgeous. You can see how people get seduced can't you???

Cheers

Buzzy

fraser

Except the couple who were on have moved to Sydney and were never going to Perth

Buzzy--Bee

Hmmm missed that bit.

But Mrs B and I always say at the end "another couple didnt buy anything but got a free trip!!!"

Cheers

Buzzy

fraser

You wouldn't have seen that bit, I know the guys dad, they wanted to do Sydney channel four wanted to do Perth, they were happy as they validated for free.

angel17796

It really did look lovely and some of the houses were great.

happy chappy

Some friends of mine have been on a place in the sun and they had no intention of going to where they filmed. They went to an emigration show and were approached by the TV company who wanted to film a couple who wanted to emigrate but they didn't seem to care that they were not going were they wanted to film. They just liked the look of them and offered them a free trip if they went along with it.

They even edited the film so some of the comments about property they were showing on the TV they hadn't even visited.

That's why often at the end they say they are going to think about it and make a decision later.

November11

I noticed the programme stated house prices as at Winter 2004 - Has there been a significant rise in prices since?

Vash the Stampede

When are they going to correct the title to "A Whinge in the Sun"?

ScottDavis

Based on my constant scouring of REIWA, Domain and RealEstate .com.au, I'd say so yes. The prices for the Freemantle houses seem to be quite low compared to current, Armadale seemed a quite low (I loved the one on top of the hill with the views!), but you can still see houses in Rockingham for prices similar to those shown. IIRC their budget was around £200k / $440k.

I have to add, that just recently I've seen posts by people stating Armadale was very rough and Rockingham had gone down hill. Whilst I'm aware that on TV they're going to gloss it up a bit, both of those areas looked and sounded great to me.

Please don't flame me for the last paragraph if I'm wrong. It was just based on a 60 minutes TV show.

ScottDavis

Why is that?

Lewis Lapthorn

I think Mr Stampede is referring to the old cliche of 'those whingin poms' - which many seem to do when relocating abroad. Remember the Skeggs - Perth 2003?

Thing is - I think if there is anything in it, it could be the simple fact that we have more to whinge about. Shit weather, over populated, an embarrassing record on the international sports front (that rugby world cup was the first for 37 years), crap leisure facilities and English fast becoming the second language!!

I could go on.

Mrs Lapthorn said she's never known me so happy as when we lived in Oz. Funny thing is, didn't think I felt any different at the time - just must have whinged less!!

possoms

got any contacts could do with a free validation trip

paulf

It's on again today, 12.45 channel 165 sky, Plus another at 2.45 same channel WA. There is a +1 choice to these channels 286 so add an hour to each giving you four chances (gonna miss Skyplus)