Kevin McCloud's Escape to the Wild

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Amirhussain

11,486 posts

162 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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DonkeyApple said:
BoRED S2upid said:
Where do they find these nutjobs? I like the way they have all had a breakdown in London and just done one and Kevin asks why didn't you just move to Scotland? smile
Kevin certainly seems to be of the opinion that if you are an antisocial whack job then Scotland is the place for you. biggrin
That did make me laugh

croyde

22,700 posts

229 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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These few people can only live this way whilst the rest of the world gets on with it.

If we all decided to do the same as them, we'd all be patrolling our land armed to the teeth.

It's a theme park mentality which will rapidly come down to earth if they were to do it for real.

R4PID

1,060 posts

244 months

Wednesday 24th June 2015
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Skrambles said:
The husband definitely had a screw loose. The wife probably made one careless, off-hand remark (when they lived in Notting Hill or somewhere) about how much she loved the local "authentic" butchers and that was it - off to Belize to get some warm sliced carcass in a bucket at 4 a.m.

Although I'm obviously biaised in favour of the "normal" life of civilisation that the parents gave up, I felt sorry for the kids - being made to scavenge barefoot on a pile of discarded refuse (hazardous?) like urchins Slumdog-style etc, exposed needlessly to danger, deprived of a normal education - for what? To fulfil the Dad's dream of living like the first man, staking out and pissing on his territory to make his mark, building an odd-ball house (and beacon for nutters), etc etc. It's all like some pointless, narcissistic experiment.

All that said, I'd love to see the "Escape to the Wild Revisited" laugh



so true!

Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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Winter woollies on for this episode, me thinks. biggrin

BoRED S2upid

19,641 posts

239 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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They had to be a couple of Welsh nutters. Left well paid jobs with a grand total of £2k to their name and a few pair of long johns!

KP328

1,806 posts

194 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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I would use the dogs and a sledge to bring the water back to the house, maybe i'm lazy though.

greygoose

8,224 posts

194 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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Enjoying this one more than the other ones as they haven't got kids that they are dragging along too (unless they are frozen in the loft).

Laurel Green

30,770 posts

231 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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Who would keep a a photo of their ravaged nuts to show to strangers?

KP328

1,806 posts

194 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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Laurel Green said:
Who would keep a a photo of their ravaged nuts to show to strangers?
ravaged nuts hehe might explain the lack of children though?

SwanJack

1,911 posts

271 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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He used to clean my wheelie bin, he also used to run bushcraft courses, i'm sure he told me he was going there to join his brother who was already over there running his own cleaning business.

Edited by SwanJack on Monday 29th June 22:06

raceboy

13,081 posts

279 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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BoRED S2upid said:
Left well paid jobs with a grand total of £2k to their name and a few pair of long johns!
What on earth were they doing with the cash back in Wales? Gives it the big one about how much they are earning and leave with loose change, what happened to the big house flash cars, sale of the business....

Adrian W

13,848 posts

227 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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There's something dodgy about this pair, the numbers don't add up

Watchman

6,391 posts

244 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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I don't care if there's more to the story than is presented here. I am totally sold on this couple's lifestyle. Totally. OK, I would make more of technology but what I saw looks brilliant to me.

No bills. No people. Just a good woman prepared to share the life with you. Works for me.

Easternlight

3,424 posts

143 months

Monday 29th June 2015
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All very strange, left two well paid jobs but with only £2k! So not that well paid then!
But there's a house and very expensive looking skidoo oh and a car and an I pad and 54 dogs to feed!
The car was "left abandoned" most of the year but wasn't snowed in and appeared to be working, lights etc.
And where was the WiFi coming from?
Using Skype to call home twice a week but no electric to charge up the I pad.



PurpleTurtle

6,935 posts

143 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Belize bloke struck me as a young Steven Berkoff, having done far too many Class A's and chasing some narcissistic dream that his wife was too scared to run away from. A closet full of skeletons there IMHO.

Pesty

42,655 posts

255 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Easternlight said:
All very strange, left two well paid jobs but with only £2k! So not that well paid then!
But there's a house and very expensive looking skidoo oh and a car and an I pad and 54 dogs to feed!
The car was "left abandoned" most of the year but wasn't snowed in and appeared to be working, lights etc.
And where was the WiFi coming from?
Using Skype to call home twice a week but no electric to charge up the I pad.
And who's was the other UK plate car in front of it.

54 dogs eat a ton of food.

DonkeyApple

54,919 posts

168 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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Easternlight said:
All very strange, left two well paid jobs but with only £2k! So not that well paid then!
But there's a house and very expensive looking skidoo oh and a car and an I pad and 54 dogs to feed!
The car was "left abandoned" most of the year but wasn't snowed in and appeared to be working, lights etc.
And where was the WiFi coming from?
Using Skype to call home twice a week but no electric to charge up the I pad.
Yup. The financials didn't add up in the slightest. Even when you discount the definition of well paid jobs given the part of the UK they came from they've still spent considerably more than £2k setting themselves up. And their lifestyle certainly costs more than the £200/month income.

BoRED S2upid

19,641 posts

239 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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I wouldn't be surprised if HMRC wanted some payments from him. Cash rich business turning over hundreds every day, sell that, sell the house and run.

DonkeyApple

54,919 posts

168 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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What I find most interesting about these four shows is that Britons have historically always upped sticks and gone to live on their own somewhere else on the planet. There has always been this small group of people for whom happiness lies away from the heart of civilisation. These people are the modern equivalent of those who went off to the Colonies and other places and proceeded to go and live on their own with just their families and very modest interaction with others in a community that was spread over hundreds of square miles instead of meters.

So, it gives a modicum of insight into the type of person who did this. It seems clear that some do it because that is who they are, they aren't programmed to be able to live what we think of as the normal life and they have the balls, brains and quite intense drive to take themselves from where they were born to where they belong.

Others seem to be pushed by failure in the same way that a few London inhabitants claim their move out to the suburbs was voluntary and desired when in reality it was because their career plateaued early.

Some, like the Swedish couple, still have the safety net of a developed benefits system to fall back on, others take savings and what seems like the minority but the smart minority are carving a business out so as to be properly sustainable.

What you cannot throw at any of these people is a charge of laziness. Some might be running away but it's clear that all have strong work ethics.

In my eyes though, the only credible ones are those who have become or clearly becoming economically self sustainable in their new local currency. In the history of singular migration anyone who failed to generate a proper business or become part of the local trade network died. And that hasn't changed. Any of these families who fail to do that will not be able to remain.

Smollet

10,465 posts

189 months

Tuesday 30th June 2015
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DonkeyApple said:
Kevin certainly seems to be of the opinion that if you are an antisocial whack job then Scotland is the place for you. biggrin
Can't fault his reasoning at all. Belizeman seems to be very close to killing anyone who doesn't agree with him so a jungle a long way from civilisation is probaly best for all concerned.