What social class would you say I am?

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Grew up in a terrace house in the north. Both parents uni educated, teachers, so not much money.

Dad grew up in a miners house, poor family, my great grandparents were miners/farm labourers. Mum from Sheffield, and went to private school, her parents ran a small family business.

Me, studied medicine at Cambridge, after going to a rough state comp. Now married to a privately educated lawyer.

Firmly middle class

Middle class

Middle. If you need to ask, the answer's always middle.

I think it says a lot that you think two teachers wouldn’t have much money, it’s not exactly minimum wage!

Definitely middle class

Middle class.
When it comes to class I think very few people are purely one class or the other. I know so many people who grew up in poverty and now have very middle class careers. Social mobility happens a lot. I know plenty of families where one person is typically working class and the other is middle class. How would you define them? Does it really matter?

Do you say toilet or loo?!

Definitely middle class

Why ask? You know the answer.

Middle class.

Why are you asking? Were you unsure?

Clearly middle growing up. Now verging on upper middle.

Middle, more precisely upper middle. You are an educated professional, as is your spouse.

Everyone thinks they went to a rough state comp when most of the time they just mean a normal state school. Lots of people who I went to school with say this about our school when it was just your basic/ avantage state school in a city. I'm surprised you say both parents were teachers and you didn't have a lot of money, if you grew up before 2000 with two professional working parents I would have thought there would be some money there.

The reason I am unsure is that my dad’s family were poor. Most of my middle class friends have middle class families going way back.

If you are asking the question and trying to 'place' yourself, that normally in itself means you're middle class.

Who cares?

Why does it matter?

Definitely middle. A lot of people a few generations ago were poor, but more people were poor in many senses (had jobs and quite a few people in a small house, no foreign holidays or cars). People who went to grammar schools many years ago were often from poorer families and they ended up with white collar jobs.

What could you be other than middle?

Middle class

The second sentence tells me you are middle class. Do you speak RP?

Class is not a genetic condition.

Unless you're an aristo - maybe it is then 🤔

Anyway, your friends are just example of British people often marrying "people like us darling" and aren't proof that class mobility isn't possible.

My mum's parents were working class, my dad's were middle class. I had a middle class upbringing, dh a working class upbringing. Our dcs are middle class.

What is your occupation, OP?

My parents grew up working class, and so therefore they probably always will be. But by the time I was born they were doing well, i had all the hallmarks of a lower middle class upbringing. I'm middle class, can't claim to be working class because my parents were.

My background was similar, except dm was a 'daughter of the manse' who went to teacher training college not uni, and despite them being northerners the terrace house I was raised in was in essex ('deprived coastal town').

Middle class, for sure. Education was definitely a driver of social mobility - granddad was hired as a farmhand in Thirsk market when he was a young man, his sons both went to pre-war northern grammars and then got scholarships to uni (Manchester and Oxford).

I think it says a lot that you think two teachers wouldn’t have much money, it’s not exactly minimum wage!

We weren't rolling in it - I had 2 older brothers, and dm didn't work from when they were born until I started school, and then had breaks to care for her parents. This was pretty normal. And primary teachers weren't that well paid then I think. We didn't have a car or fridge till I was about 11.