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Anyone watch it?
For those that didn't it was the usual build your new life in another country only this time it was Austria and the couple ended up with a Chalet for around £680,000. They looked at a bar, another chalet, a sign business and a sandwich place.
Place they bought looked great. They seemed like a nice couple, too. I'm never sure that these programs deal with the practicalities as well as they might. The family had young children and looked like they would need to borrow about 175K and as a business were bringing in a salary of around 50K (I assume gross). I guess living costs are covered if you're home is your business but servicing the loan and other costs might be hard for a family of four. But I guess they bought the dream!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I saw it and it looked nice! No doubt it was the dream that clinched it! As the ROI on the sandwich shop was a few 100% more than the building they bought! I wish them luck!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I saw it too, as they say, location, location, location, is what's important... but... a lot of people demand ski-in/ski-out with chalets these days, and this one didn't have that.
Likewise, i wish them luck. Though they have a head start, taking over an existing business, with employing staff... not like us oldies who back in 2003 came out and did it all ourselves the hard way.
Interesting the difference in price between Austria & France. A chalet like that in France would have been at least double. If I was buying a chalet in Austria today, i'd want it in one of the well known areas like St Anton.
BTW, the glacier skiing looked absolutely sh**e 
cheers.
Andrew
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Why didn't they buy the bar 50k declared profit for 3 months work AND only 3 staff AND only opened at 4pm 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Repeated tonight (Thursday) on Sky 2 at 8pm.
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I think, in all honesty, the bar wouldn't have offered him any skiing opportunities. I would imagine it was hard work for the season. They said they were opened when the lifts were running so maybe he would have been drinking rather than skiing the dream.
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A chalet like that in France would have been at least double.
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There's more to Frenach skiing than Chamonix, you know. The rest of us don't pay your prices. 
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Where did they buy?
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Frosty the Snowman, some small place near France called austria.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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I think it was Neustift Austria. It had a glacier, which on the program looked in an awful state but I'm guessing that was mid summer. When the revisit happened there was a lot more snow and the whole place looked "like the dream". Based on the program, I'd stay with them. I wonder how that exposure boosts the income.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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johnnyh, I imagine it will boost their income considerably! Just like the last one they did relocating to Chamonix! Do you remember the fly on the wall documentary "War and Piste"? That showed a really bad side of "Snoworld", but I used them and speaking to resort managers they seemed to get a boost! As the old addage goes, "there is no such thing as bad publicity"!
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Frosty the Snowman, according to the programme it was Hinterthal which is in the Hochkönig area (Maria Alm/Mühlbach), so I am presuming that the Glacier was the Kitzsteinhorn above Kaprun. The glacier was looking much better when I skied it on 11th October, but I was also very surprised at how much it had retreated since my first trip there nearly 30 years ago!
I thought it was a very interesting programme which definitely pushed the need for speaking the local language. I hope the two of them make a good start and enjoy living the dream. I'm pretty sure I know the Framing shop he sold - it was on Coldharbour Road in Redland, Bristol and prior to being a Framing business it was a florist's I think - just opposite the Post Office.
Good luck to them - it isn't easy moving into another culture, especially when you do not speak the language.
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