I wonder just how many of the Mexicans on some of their shows have legal docs to work here.
Eleventy. And threeve of them are gay.
Initially I locked this thread. Then I decided people might enjoy it, so I moved it to MPSIMS from Cafe Society.
One thing I like about the channel, especially on House Hunters, is that they’ll have a gay couple on there and it won’t even be mentioned. I like how they don’t make a big deal out of it because really, it shouldn’t be a big deal.
In regards to the “mexicans” on the show I’m assuming they’re all Americans, so they probably have the necessary paperwork.
I also used to wonder why there were so many gay couples shown on those shows. They never comment on it, and shouldn’t, and perhaps I’ve just been lucky (if it’s considered lucky) in the relatively few number of episodes I’ve watched (about 20), but it did stand out to me as being about 30% of the people profiled, which is way higher a proportion than in the general population.
It all comes down to who has enough freedom and disposable income to spend lavishly on large houses and expensive remodeling jobs. My wife (who watches these shows a LOT) pointed out that people buying and/or extensively redoing these houses (which are always fairly high budget) tended to be in one of three categories:
(a) retirees who’d cashed out of some paid-off house in the Northeast or Bay Area or some other expensive part of the country and were looking for a ritzy place in a cheaper part of the country or world
(b) a successful, aged-late-40s-to-50s guy who’d had a successful career and was settling down with a much younger wife intending to start a family (possibly a second family after separating from a “starter wife”)
© an aged-late-20s-to-early-40s childless gay couple (male or female) where both were successful white-collar professionals
With a couple of appearances of single women buyers (it’s never a single man) that she deemed “starter wife who got a big payout in a divorce settlement from a wanna-be Sugar Daddy upgrader” (you can tell where her sympathies lie).
Or, as an offshore pirate once astutely observed on The Simpsons, “Ah, another homosexual party boat! They always have such nice things.”
Aliens on HGTV? Is Holmes, isn’t it? He looks like he came from another planet alright.
I miss HGTV. My school’s satellite package doesn’t include it.
As for the mexicans, I’m too busy wondering if that spot on the ceiling is a spider and should therefore be squashed or lint and can wait until the bimonthly cleaning to worry about their immigration status.
Gay and interracial couples.
I watch HGTV all the time and I don’t see many Mexicans.
This Californian is always surprised by how many of the work crews shown are white-- that’s never the case 'round these parts. So, I’m not sure what Mexicans you’re speaking of, because I don’t see them on the shows (except, ya know, when they’re in Mexico).
Actually, a lot of the HGTV shows are in Canada, aren’t they? So. . . there ya go.
I don’t remember seeing HGTV as awash with Mexicans, myself.
You mean Canadians.:dubious:
Let’s meet half way and say junior Americans.
You should have just dumped it to the Pit, which is the only forum where it can receive the gentle loving care it deserves.
Actually, they’re illegal Mexican-American immigrants, who fled to Canada due to the anti-immigrant furor in the US.
I see tons of gay and interracial couples on HGTV shows too (and on “Clean Sweep”). I think it’s cool.
A lot of the contractors I see on house-flipping shows are Hispanic. I assume their crew is Hispanic too but they’re not really talking to the cameras so I don’t know. I highly doubt the contractors in these big-money flips are illegals.
That’s fine ------ but I don’t want any of those Irish! 
(Sorry ----- was just watching Blazing Saddles again before I logged on)
I think you forgot something. 
This is the best and most sensible explanation I have ever heard for HGTV demographics.
This is good but it doesn’t count all of the interracial couples with kids. There a a whole lot of those. Plus, there are tons of single men buying properties in Florida, Central America and the Caribbean.
And I will mention, yet again, the interracial couples. It is still surprising for me to see older (over 40) interracial couples. They must all be Canadian.
I know of illegal aliens that have legal doc, the documents are 100% legal, but they don’t belong to the person using him. Manuel Dominguez is the legal alien and the other 100, Manuel Dominguez’s using his documents are not.