Did moving up the socio economic ladder make you happier?

[Pendapala]

According to research by the Sutton trust people who move up the socio economic ladder enjoy higher levels of well-being compared with those who stay at a similar level through their lives. However, they do not catch up to the higher levels of well-being enjoyed by those who were raised affluent.

Is this true for you?

I come from a very happy, stable working/ lower middle class family. By virtue of a scholarship to a high achieving independent school, Oxbridge and marrying into a posh London family (husband went to Westminster and works in the City), I guess I have (not really intentionally) climbed several rungs up the ladder. To be honest, I think coming from a happy and stable family to start off with has made the biggest difference to my well-being and self esteem, but there is something to be said for enjoying advantages in life that I will never take for granted. Especially private healthcare, independent schools and help about the house. When I meet MiL for our annual Chelsea Flower Show visit and dinner at Medlar, it will feel pretty normal to her but immensely exciting to me as it does every year.

www.suttontrust.com/news-opinion/all-news-opinion/happiness-gap-shows-class-shapes-lifelong-wellbeing/

Yes. Money has made a huge difference to our lives in terms of stability through having no mortgage, how we can support the children and our enjoyment like going on holiday numerous times and being able to buy what we want without having to really think about money. We are certainly not millionaires or rich but comfortable and living a life we never thought we would live which has been amazing. I grew up in a ‘middle class’ household but with a lot of financial insecurity due to poor parental decisions which I’ve carried into my adult life.
Dh grew up in a very working class family with abuse and addiction issues so he has risen far past his old life.
I don’t care about status, people probably have an idea that we have money based on where we live, the car we drive and what we do and that type of thing, but we are just ordinary people with the same friends we’ve had for decades and I buy all my clothes from vinted

Nah, I like a good Wilco's and Iceland haul. Miss it and want to go back.

Yes definitely.
I don’t have anything in common with my old school friends who stayed in our w/c with South Coast home town. Would be utterly miserable in that environment /prematurely aged and fat.