To not actually know what social class I am?

[TheDogAteIt]

Their seems to be a lot of middle class vs working class vs chav etc on AIBU. So what criteria do you need to fill in order to be in one of these?

Maybe all the knowledgable MN's out there can help, so I can behave accordingly?

Education - Uni
Job - Public sector worker (wage £23000 pa)
Married - Yes
Child - One
Age I became a mother - Mid-twenties
BF? - Was crap at it, gave up at 6 weeks
Home - Average 3 bed semi (owned) in non-posh, non-rough area

Other suggestions for class criteria welcomed

Do people in the UK honestly still believe that there is a class structure...?

What about non Brits living in the UK - do we also belong to a 'class' too .

Phew .

sorry, wrong post

Yes I agree actually - they are more of an upper-middle thing Jajas. But maybe a few plain old ordinary middle middle class interlopers LeQueen's Dad
had them as well!

The point is, no self resepcting working class or Lower Middle man ever wore a pair!

Yes, and we had a gardener called Monty and a nanny called Mary P.

Interestingly, one of my great grandmothers was born in the workhouse. This was on the poor mining side. We had no idea until we started researching family history, that particular story had been well covered up over the years. Until that point we actually thought that they were the "better off" side of the family, my grandma certainly always acted as though she had married down. Her family was full of teachers and librarians and all of mum's cousins on that side went to private school and then either Oxbridge or at the very least RG universities. Turns out that if you went back a couple of generations they were living 12 to a house in grimy terraces with the odd visit to the workhouse when things got really bad! I find it fascinating, and pretty impressive TBH how far they got in so few generations, but my grandma would be horrified if she had still been alive and knew that we know the truth!

Jemima, that's a great story of upward mobility which illustrates that class need not be a barrier that confines and dictates our life chances.

I come from a family of Jewish emigre Marxists, Roma Gypsies, a few odd land owners and a french count, bit of a mixed bunch really. I feel justified in feeling classLESS. I advocate this, it's truely liberating

My dad wears raspberry coloured trousers and is the scruffiest bugger you'll ever meet.

I'm old middle class though, in other words we're broke at the moment and will be for at least the next year! (Retraining.)

That's what I meant NN - old MC is a very different animal from the new MC! No mustard or raspberry trousers to be seen there. It'a provincial/country thing as well.

I have no class.

we are rich but common as muck, best of both worlds!

Oh no - if he was going for 'the look' then he did the right thing. He would have looked very authentic.

kittycat37 - you are Old School MC! The real deal . Money has to come with moths and mildew to be a real indicator of class.

BTW re heirloom trousers, I think they have to come from tailors, circa about 1975, be of cavalry twill and last for ever. And as they get older they become gardening and walking the dogs trousers.