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Re: Place in the Winter Sun
Originally Posted by jackytoo
(Post 9892777)
Strange programme. Supposed to be marbella but they didn't show them one property there:blink: Little wonder they weren't very enthusiastic! I would have called a halt to the viewings and asked why I was being taken allover the place except marbella. The only place they went to was the Marbella club Hotel and she didn't take the clients with her:confused:
Yesterdays was even dafter. A couple wanting to buy a place in one of the Virgin Isles...never been before. Every property they showed them was on the steep hills and had lots of steps. He had already said he had a back problem and receiving disability! He did seem to manage ok. though...wonder if they were watching from the local benefits office:rofl: Having said that, their budget wouldn't find them much if they were in Marbella even in these hard times...perhaps a garage. :rofl: I often think some of these people just go on the program for a free holiday and have no intention of buying. |
Re: Place in the Winter Sun
It said at the start of the programme that he was recently seperated. I thought at times he seemed very depressed so maybe it was just his daughter trying to get him a break. poor man was barely coherent at times.
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Re: Place in the Winter Sun
Originally Posted by megmet
(Post 9892824)
Yes they obviously wanted to be in Marbella so it's no good showing them a house in Monda or Coin, the daughter said she didn't like the inland pueblos.
Having said that, their budget wouldn't find them much if they were in Marbella even in these hard times...perhaps a garage. :rofl: I often think some of these people just go on the program for a free holiday and have no intention of buying. http://www.vivaestates.com/buying/pr...f_no=Type+here |
Re: Place in the Winter Sun
Just seen the first programme on the internet, wouldn't have looked except that it was based round Playa Flamenca where we lived when we moved to Spain, I really didn't see what the programme makers wer doing as they specifically asked to be near the sea, so they take them 30mins inland for one property, always going to be a no brainer, and the one at Villamartin, again not near the sea, Ok not that far away, but a car journey away, and poor shopping there as well. One of the Shopping Centres they showed being built was under construction in 2003 when we lived there, development had been stopped because they couldn't rent out the units.
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Re: Place in the Winter Sun
I note that the proramme this morning was on Denia. I missed it. Did anyone see it?
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Re: Place in the Winter Sun
I am sure it will be on m4 sometime...
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Re: Place in the Winter Sun
Originally Posted by Nigeljay
(Post 9905635)
I note that the proramme this morning was on Denia. I missed it. Did anyone see it?
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Re: Place in the Winter Sun
I saw part of it, missed the first 20 minutes or so. I don't know the area featured at all so I didn't mean a great deal to me, the couple's budget was £120,000 so all the properties I saw were pretty small. One of them was an apartment on the 23rd floor of a tower block in Benidorm, so not in Denia at all! What would you do if the lift broke down - I wouldn't fancy climbing all those stairs with or without shopping!
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Re: Place in the Winter Sun
Originally Posted by Lynn R
(Post 9906898)
I saw part of it, missed the first 20 minutes or so. I don't know the area featured at all so I didn't mean a great deal to me, the couple's budget was £120,000 so all the properties I saw were pretty small. One of them was an apartment on the 23rd floor of a tower block in Benidorm, so not in Denia at all! What would you do if the lift broke down - I wouldn't fancy climbing all those stairs with or without shopping!
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Re: Place in the Winter Sun
I find it hard to watch these types of programme, and I think I've worked out the reason why. In the show they invariably end up showing a British couple looking at a remote detached villa in search of the "true Spanish experience"... For me that is a very unrepresentative Spanish experience. From my time in Madrid, a true experience would be as a keep-fit teacher, or working 10 hour shifts in a bar, or in a bank, or delivering supplies, or as a doctor, or even studying to become an air traffic controller (!). Of course some people from Madrid will holiday on the coast, and many will have a family get-away place. But having a holiday place, or being rich enough to not to have to work, is not unique to either the Brits or Spanish, and I can't see how it can be described as such.
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Re: Place in the Winter Sun
Originally Posted by steviedeluxe
(Post 9907614)
I find it hard to watch these types of programme, and I think I've worked out the reason why. In the show they invariably end up showing a British couple looking at a remote detached villa in search of the "true Spanish experience"... For me that is a very unrepresentative Spanish experience. From my time in Madrid, a true experience would be as a keep-fit teacher, or working 10 hour shifts in a bar, or in a bank, or delivering supplies, or as a doctor, or even studying to become an air traffic controller (!). Of course some people from Madrid will holiday on the coast, and many will have a family get-away place. But having a holiday place, or being rich enough to not to have to work, is not unique to either the Brits or Spanish, and I can't see how it can be described as such.
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Re: Place in the Winter Sun
Originally Posted by steviedeluxe
(Post 9907614)
I find it hard to watch these types of programme, and I think I've worked out the reason why. In the show they invariably end up showing a British couple looking at a remote detached villa in search of the "true Spanish experience"... For me that is a very unrepresentative Spanish experience. From my time in Madrid, a true experience would be as a keep-fit teacher, or working 10 hour shifts in a bar, or in a bank, or delivering supplies, or as a doctor, or even studying to become an air traffic controller (!). Of course some people from Madrid will holiday on the coast, and many will have a family get-away place. But having a holiday place, or being rich enough to not to have to work, is not unique to either the Brits or Spanish, and I can't see how it can be described as such.
As you say, anything from working in a sweatshop, to gutting fish in a factory is a true Spanish Experience. |
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