Most middle class family holiday destination? (just for fun!)

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I haven't spotted a middle class thread all week so thought I'd start one just for fun 😜
In your opinion what are the most middle class or umc holiday spots?
Summer:
Any part of France (extra posh if you have friends or family who have a house to put you & the kids up in!)
Italian Lakes
Greek Islands

Winter
Barbados or similar Caribbean Island
Skiing in the Austrian, Swiss or French Akps (wealthiest go to Switzerland)
Christmas markets

This is just for fun & based on the wealthier middle class families I know! They all seem to go to the same places!

And that concludes my two pennies worth on Dubai.

My favourite MC holiday in UK is St Mawes or anywhere on the Roseland Peninsula!

It's a very helpful guide to know where to avoid the world's most horrid bitchy snobs. I bet half of you have never done more than a crappo jet to Spain. Italian lakes and MN demographic not really financially compatible

We live on a very large island, absolutely jam-packed with beaches. How can so many people think that West Wittering is the only beach around? (Not just you, most of the residents in the town I live in, too).

Just drive along the coast a bit and find one you like. But failing that: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-the-sunday-times-50-best-british-beaches-2022-7zvqzct93

The waterside holiday homes in the Cotswolds - a quick run from London. A friend has a house close by, and we used to swim in the flooded gravel pit next door, until it was taken over by Expensive Second Homes Inc. 🙁
I once had a snake swimming a few feet away - a very good swimmer! - I couldn’t see what sort but it wasn’t remotely interested in me. Probably just a grass snake.

Not posh as much as aspirational.

Anyway I suppose as a lawyer I must be MC but I don't think I share a lot of the aspirational attitudes and definitely don't ski. But recent(ish) holidays for us have included:

Channel Islands
Copenhagen city break x 2
City break in Belfast
City break in Dublin
Visiting friends in Germany
A week on Lake Constance/Bodensee (I don't think that's MC, it's just not very well known by Brits, like most of Germany)
A city break in Berlin
My mum lives in Devon so go there a lot (but avoid Salcombe as impossible to park)

Just drive along the coast a bit and find one you like. But failing that: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/revealed-the-sunday-times-50-best-british-beaches-2022-7zvqzct933*

I've been to lots of those beaches & still think WW is one of the best, it ticks a lot of boxes. But I know how annoying tourists can be as I'm a Londoner!

UK middle class is more to do with career and aspirations rather than money. Professionals are middle class and tradespeople are working class. A plumber, for example, might have a much better income than a teacher but would be regarded as working class while the teacher would be middle class as the plumber has a trade and the teacher a profession.

Not sure that teachers are really mc anymore though. Maybe LMC...

Depends, I’d say some are in fact working class background. It’s a broad profession. Historically, primary school teachers didn’t use to need a degree. Even secondary school teachers didn’t need to go to university, especially at secondary moderns, teacher training school would suffice. Some secondary school teachers only needed O’ levels if they weren’t teaching A’ levels. But of course you can have extremely highly educated Oxbridge etc teachers .

@NRRK28 definitely not about income...but it's such a weird weird British thing I think in that somehow there are almost these unspoken characteristics of the classes.
Perhaps it's that cultural capital that is the real clincher?

@8656b9787, only if you’re judging by money, and class in the U.K. is not all about money. Although some people do like to think so.

You can be UC with barely a pot to piss in, or have pots of money and still be right at the other extreme.

While on the subject, why do some people say they’re ‘proudly’ WC? It’s one thing to be perfectly happy with it, but proud? It’s not as if it’s down to your own efforts - and you weren’t asked before you were born what sort of family you’d like to be born into - ‘Ooh, working class please!’
I can imagine the sneering on here if anyone said they were proud to be MC! .

Imagine it being said with a Janner/Deepest Dartmoor combi accent.

That's why nous n'allons pas à Grenoble. I'd just be laughing my arse off every time DP opened his mouth.

So going by this thread the UK seems to be the most MC holiday in fashion at the moment followed by France... France, Austria, Switzerland & New York for winter hols

@Violinist64 me and my husband both lawyer so its profession and both high earner. So its consider middle class?. But i dont feel middle class at all. I still speak english with my own accent. I’m not elegant and dainty. Way far from elegant. If its based on household income or profession we fit middle class, but i always thought middle class is very elegant people with posh english accent. Is that true? Or maybe classes only applies to english people?

Anyone else making a note of 12 pages of places to avoid 🙄

😂😃Indeed
Brag brag yawn -avoid these types at home never mind on holiday

Elegant and dainty are not part of being MC! The truth is that there are all kinds of invisible subdivisions at work most of which will defy precise definition. I think this thread is about a broad / jokey stereotype of the types of places MC Brits go.

I'm extremely MC by MN standards but I am not elegant / well dressed / posh - (because to me the only people who are posh are the aristocracy, not to be conflated with the mega wealthy, I'm neither of those) and I don't care. I have been to most but not all of the places mentioned, and never to Dubai. (Apart from the airport) . You can't take any of this seriously.

My husband and I - sorry, joke!

Yes it was started completely light hearted.. Actually based on some convos at the school gate same types of families go to the same places..

The Daily Telegraph had a big article on Bodensee recently so .....
(have driven past /around it a couple of times on the way to Merano, it looks lovely.)

The Lake Constance area is beautiful. I always visit for a few days when I’m visiting my Swiss friend who lives in Wil. It’s only about half an hour from her house. The area is one of my favorite places.

The same place can be MC and chavvy though. I guffawed at the notion of Bridport being middle class. But I suppose it is a bit. West Bay however, is categorically not.

Same can be said for Mallorca... Magaluf, Santa Ponsa, Palma Nova definitely not MC but other parts stunning & very uppity....

No.

TBH most of the abroad places mentioned on here are places we like because they tend to be quieter and not overrun with "Brits abroad" types.

When we go to Greece, for example, we want to eat in Greek tavernas, drink Greek wine, sightsee interesting places and integrate with local people.

We actively avoid the type of places that offer all day English breakfasts, have wall to wall bars and nightclubs and generally appeal to crowds of party goers.

In the UK, again, we avoid crowded and noisy places.

I don't think that is being middle class, just having different tastes and preferring quieter holidays.