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.

I speak RP but I was grammer educated and raised in a naice area of Surrey. Def not middle class though, not that it matters anyway.

You're middle class. Clearly.

I struggle with this as I was brought up in poverty (as in, in a truck. No electricity or running water). I was taken out of school at 13. But I'm now a lawyer and home owner so I guess I'm middle class too.

Oh I dunno who cares

Depending on where you are career wise upper middle.
But as an educated well researched individual why were you not able to assess this without MN help?

not sure why you bring up great-grandparents, 99% of people's g-grandparents were miners, labourers, servants and weavers given it would have been the early 1900s. I know mine were and I'm firmly middle class (and my parents were teachers!)

I would've said lower middle growing up. A terraced house? And middle class now, probably not upper middle.

Not spelling educated, though. 😭

He may have been poor but he was uni educated

I am 46 and the first in my family to go to uni, my mum left school at 15, my nan was a dinner lady

so what am I?

Are you Cleopatra?

No, wait, are you Boudica?

Oh yes, you are definitely very working class. Calloused palms, coal in the bath and deference to your betters.

I find class really boring. I seriously couldn't care less what class I am. Such a weird British obsession. I especially dislike the unspoken notion that being middle class is somehow better than being working class. It's not. Most people I know, most families I know are a real mix anyway. People who seem so typically middle class often have working class ancestors if you go back a generation or two.
Class just seems to permiate everything in this country. Where you go on holiday, the names you give your children, the type of food you eat, how you decorate your house. It can all be described as middle class or upper class or working class. Sadly if something is seen as working class it's usually sneered at and looked down on.

This! Two teachers is actually a pretty good wage not mega bucks but more than two people on minimum wage.

Most of my middle class friends have middle class families going way back.

I find it interesting because I consider myself working class because of my upbringing and culture, but DD considers herself middle class because I did go to uni. But when you look at her friendship group some of them, particularly the boys, haven't gone to university and didn't do A levels (some have qualifications in the trades some of them just been working since 16), many of her friends parents didn't go to university, and those of her friends where their parents did go to university were first generation graduates like me, she doesn't have friends who have solid middle class backgrounds. She also comments on a class divide in the city where she's at an ex-poly university between that and the RG "uni of". I don't know whether that would make her more lower middle class, I do agree with her that she's not working class, but she is still affected by working class experiences (there's been a lot of poverty and trauma) and still pretty much none of our wider family have been to university so that's the dominant culture when we meet.

This is what I was thinking 😂 Your Dad is from a working class background, you are middle class. I don't know what's complicated about it.

Yes, that stood out to me, too.

Surely a household with two teachers would be pretty well off?

Not if the Mumsnet teachers’ shop stewards are to be believed.

According to them teachers have to sell matches in the street and take in laundry just to buy a crust and some dripping for tea.

Middle class