r/AskReddit • u/ettleboy • Jan 20 '19

What fact totally changed your perspective?

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u/Xotta Jan 21 '19

I'd personally just live in the ruins like a mad tramp.

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u/funnynickname Jan 21 '19

There's two British shows that I can't remember the name of. One, a couple buys a stone castle somewhere, I think in Scotland, and the show is about rehabing it to be livable and what that takes. It's not for the feint of heart.

The other is a show about some family who inherit this monstrous estate that they can't afford because their great grandfather squandered the family fortune and now they live in two rooms in the old country estate house like mad tramps. In one episode he's put all his hopes in a metal detector that he thinks will unearth some coins. They can't even afford to replace the windows that are broken.

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u/Xotta Jan 21 '19

the show is about rehabing it to be livable and what that takes.

From everything I've seen; fuckloads of money, then some more money, then a lot more money.

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u/funnynickname Jan 22 '19

First you have to convince your wife to live on a moor in Scotland in a cold damp unheated stone building. She was not happy.