VIEWERS of Finding The Cornish Dream have expressed a big issue with the new Channel 4 show.
The programme, which began last Saturday, sees house-hunters attempt to buy into the Cornwall dream.
The show features estate agents trying to help buyers looking to move to the seaside paradise
Viewers were less than happy with the programme – with some even being left ‘disgusted’
It features estate agents trying to help buyers looking to move to the seaside paradise.
“Cornwall is one of the most sought after locations to live in the UK,” said the show’s narrator at the start of the episode.
She added: “Demand is at an all time high, with buyers from across the country all searching for their perfect property in this wondrous land.”
Episode one saw Mark and Kate view a Grade II listed thatched cottage, Lewis put in an offer on a doer-upper with coastal views, and new residents Rose and Richard looking to put their stone cottage on the market.
However, the show left viewers unhappy – with some locals even saying they felt disgusted by it as they struggle to get on the property ladder themselves.
According to property website RightMove.co.uk house prices in Cornwall had an average sell price of £330,679 over the last year.
That’s up 22% on the peak of 2019’s price which was £270,500.
One viewer vented: “#FindingtheCornishDream on @Channel4 is in grotesquely poor taste. The housing market in Cornwall is in tatters, with virtually no affordable housing, thousands of local families on waiting lists and massively over inflated house prices.”
“There’s a programme on channel 4 called ‘finding the cornish dream’ about people going to cornwall to buy property. stop framing f***ing over cornish people as aspirational,” said another.
While another fumed: “Please submit a complaint about the “Finding the Cornish Dream” programme. It’s unbelievably crass of Channel 4 to even commission it, let alone air it.”
A fourth viewer didn’t hold back either, saying: “An absolutely shameful decision to make and air a show about finding “the Cornish dream home” when thousands of Cornish people are queueing for foodbanks, homeless and unable to afford a home in their own country where wages are a sliver of house prices.”
The backlash from Channel 4 viewers continued throughout the episode with one predicting: “The ‘Finding the Cornish Dream’ TV series is going to cause difficulties for the residents of Cornwall to find a home that isn’t either a tiny bedsit or a tiny flat for £1000pcm. If this carries on there will be no one to work in shops etc just rich people with 4 homes.”
According to property website RightMove.co.uk house prices in Cornwall had an average sell price of £330,679 over the last year
Episode one saw Mark and Kate view a Grade II listed thatched cottage, Lewis put in an offer on a doer-upper with coastal views, and new residents Rose and Richard looking to put their stone cottage on the market
