I caught an episode last night on Discovery channel. Standard house-buying show. Look at 3 houses, priced lowest to highest, then the couple discusses it and buys one. All wrapped up nice in 30 minutes.

It proves that you can buy what you want if you have the cash or the loan.

The show I like better is "Alaska: The Last Frontier." About the Kilcher clan's effort to live on a subsistence homestead. A very difficult proposition. Shows how difficult their life is. Lots of information that's of interest to the members of this forum.

Watching the show makes me delusional about wanting to do it.

I suppose both shows serve a goal: they both do great jobs of selling Alaska to people looking for a change of latitude.