Perspective Please
HGTV is one of my guilty pleasures; from Property Virgins or the design shows, I watch them all. However, there is one show that irks me which is House Hunters International. I mean I love to see all the different places they look for houses but it’s more the problem I have with the people that are on the show.
The ones I hate to see are home buyers looking for houses in any tropical place. I simply hate them because all the people say this one phrase, “I like the lifestyle here.” What lifestyle are they talking about? The lifestyle the home buyers are experiencing is one that few on the islands will experience. Most of the buyers want to be so close to the beach than many of the islanders can’t afford to live there. This lifestyle they are experiencing is one that similar people in their position experience.
I remember this one lady saying that the life here is so relaxed while walking through an alley of shops that looked on the verge of falling apart. Maybe the buyers should try to buy places more inland and see how relaxed they will be. The amount of poverty of some of these islands is quite astonishing. I bet the people would go to a village in Somalia and think to themselves,” Wow, this is life at its best…so minimalistic.”
- Muhammad Junaid (aka Ali)
