LOL..this sounds like a show I'd really hate. :D

whoops reply bellow I think

It's kind of disgusting in a "first world problem" kind of way... I can only imagine what it would've been like if they chosen Kenya or South Africa.

I can only imagine them complaining about the courtyard being too small, or the kitchen being out of date, and then all I can think is "FUUUCK some of your neighbors are living in shanties!!!"

We get the same thing here.,..shows that detail the problems of baby boomers buying up their third holiday home in the same village as locals whose sons and daughters cannot get their first home.

Perhaps the real sad thing is they can't look past all that petty stuff and see the unique beauty of a thousand year old Moroccan house. You'd be practically living in an art museum! Some artisans a very long time ago actually made the effort to put in all these little intricate touches you're not going to get anywhere else...

I'd be buying one of those places up and throwing the best house parties ever!

I'd be seeing which of your furs out there would like to be in my "harem" lol

Were you fishing for a positive response from this stag? ;)

Yup, deep sea trolling

I'm game then *tailwiggles* ;)

I often think the same thing about people and these comments.

Pittsburgh is FULL of amazing 100 year old+ Victorian houses, but people are often to immediately overlook them because they lack things like centralized heat/AC, enough garages, etc. If I could afford one, I would get one, and then devote many of my years to make it wonderful like when it was first built. I wish people could learn to be more accepting of true URBAN living again, rather than trying to import suburban lifestyles into cities.

exactly, or trying to import suburban lifestyles into an ancient North African city that was originally built with fortification in mind lol

What's interesting about the episode is it shows that the houses there are not unlike Ancient Greek and Roman ones, with courtyards and dinning rooms with couches instead of chairs.

Is that House Hunters International? That show seems to focus on spoiled rich people from US/England complaining that ancient homes in other countries don't have built in surround sound.
In Houston, there was an area full of historic homes where frequently folks would pay huge prices for these Victorian era mansions, then pay even more to tear them down and build modern Victorian inspired houses in the Frankenstein style of architecture that is currently in vogue.
In Austin, it's little craftsman style bungalows from the 20s-40s that are constantly getting the fuck renovated out of them or just plain torn down.

Gawd I hate that, in the name of snobbery we're going to destroy all of our history...

Which probably nails down what bothers me...

Stupid trends destroying historic homes.

A friend of mine was talking just yesterday about how there are barely any left from thousands and thousands of intricate gingerbread room dividers that used to be common in Victorian era homes due to modernization.
Modernization always makes me cringe, too. Unless they can manage to do it really well. There's a plantation home in Louisiana which was given to the state as a museum, but which had a full restoration in the 50s. And the woman who did it electrified the original fixtures (and the whole house, invisibly), installed modern plumbing to the original kitchen set up, and turned a small closet into an indoor bathroom. She even added air conditioning in such a way as to hide the vents beneath the floorboards. Everything modern and comfortable, but hidden and respectful of the original.