# I have learned from House Hunters that... **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 9, 2012, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-learned-from-house-hunters-that/634246 "2012-09-09T22:37:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![DZedNConfused](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dzednconfused/32/15991_2.png) [@DZedNConfused](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DZedNConfused)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-learned-from-house-hunters-that/634246/102 "2012-09-19T15:15:50Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > My mother was completely baffled as to why anybody would want that many bathrooms to have to clean. Then I pointed out to her that these people probally aren’t cleaning their own houses. I’m with your Mum! Yep, probably hiring some poor immigrant at starvation wage.. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-learned-from-house-hunters-that/634246/103 "2012-09-19T16:14:04Z")
> [@Max\_Torque](#): > > I’ve never understood the dual sink thing. The only reason you really need two is if you both need to use a sink at precisely the same moment. Apart from that, a second sink is just a hole that robs you of counter space. Is simultaneous sink use really that important to people? DH and I can find that handy. Of course, we solved that with our current apartment by having two bathrooms 😃 (we wanted the bigger apartment, and I don’t think there’s a 2-bedroom model with only 1 bathroom). OK, so one bathroom also serves as a laundry room, plus having the cat’s litterbox. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-learned-from-house-hunters-that/634246/104 "2012-09-19T16:51:20Z")
Our main bathroom has a vanity with double sinks, but the bathroom is so small and the sinks so close together, there’s no way we could both use them at the same time. I’d much rather have one sink and some counter space. I’ll defend big houses, on the cleaning front anyway. If there are no kids and you don’t “entertain” a lot and if there’s not a lot of clutter, cleaning isn’t that hard. ---
**Author:** ![DiosaBellissima](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a8b319/32.png) [@DiosaBellissima](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DiosaBellissima)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-learned-from-house-hunters-that/634246/105 "2012-09-19T17:08:02Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > My mother was completely baffled as to why anybody would want that many bathrooms to have to clean. Then I pointed out to her that these people probally aren’t cleaning their own houses. > [@DZedNConfused](#): > > Yep, probably hiring some poor immigrant at starvation wage.. I have a house keeper that comes every two weeks to clean my three bedroom, two bath house. I’m not mega rich nor am I paying someone a starvation wage. It usually takes her about 3 hours to clean the house and I’m giving her $60, so $20 an hour isn’t so bad. Housekeepers aren’t some crazy expensive, unattainable luxury-- though it’s certainly a nice perk to be able to swing. Once every two weeks is good for me because I live alone, so the house doesn’t get ridiculously dirty (terribly often). I mostly have a house keeper because half the house is tile and my ass is too lazy to ever clean that. Ever. And so I don’t end up on some weird and sad episode of Hoarders, I pay $60 every two weeks to have her come deep clean my house and dust and scrub the things I’ll never dust and scrub. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-learned-from-house-hunters-that/634246/106 "2012-09-19T17:19:25Z")
> [@Dewey\_Finn](#): > > I don’t watch House Hunters very often, but recently saw an episode of House Hunters International that featured a Chinese geotechnical engineer who decided to move to Berlin. They showed him several one-bedroom apartments selling for around $180,000. I was surprised that places in a world capital like that sold for so little, although these were third-floor walkups. And another episode showed an American couple from Philadelphia looking for two-bedroom apartments in Paris but finding that $2,500 monthly rent didn’t get them anything really great. So it’s kind of fun to see what places around the world look like and sell or rent for, although I’ve heard how fake the show is. In Madrid, you can get apartments the same size within a 15’ walk of each other (or, if you prefer it, two subway stops away), with one of them having a rent twice or thrice the other one. My great-aunt’s flat and those above hers were considered to be about twice as valuable as the ones below: she was the first one to have views of the Royal Palace’s gardens (those below have views of a medium-sized street with tons of traffic and of a brick wall). ---
**Author:** ![Terr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@Terr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terr)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2012, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-learned-from-house-hunters-that/634246/107 "2012-09-19T19:02:02Z")
> [@DZedNConfused](#): > > Yep, probably hiring some poor immigrant at starvation wage.. I’d love for you to show me where I can hire some poor immigrant at starvation wage to clean my house. The cheapest I could find charge WAY above starvation wage - immigrants or not. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-have-learned-from-house-hunters-that/634246.md?page=5)