To think working class people are cleaner than middle class

[LardLizard]

Perhaps the mc people don’t feel they have anything to prove
But bloody heck some of them are scruffy buggers !!

It’s their gardens. Why does it bother you?
So...the ops theory was that working class people are cleaner and tidier, the cars and fridge in gardens in social housing issue has been offered as counter evidence. The poster didn't say it 'bothers' them, but just that its not especially clean or tidy. You have to read the post in the context of the thread.
But actually, yes, it does bother me a bit, it makes the place look neglected, and its dangerous for kids to have lumps of rusting metal around.

What is it with the British and obsessing over what class you belong in and comparing yourselves

I have a cleaner who comes to our house for 5 hours a week (plus “top-up” cleans) - fairly sure my house is cleaner than someone who can’t afford help.

This is a well documented fact if British society. The middle class are not house proud at all but, they do tend to have better personal hygiene. Massive generalisation but there you have it. Maybe it's because the middle class don't tend to clean their own houses but can I'll afford a full time house keeper?

I'm assuming that the OP has conducted an extensive study and has a large data set from which this hypothesis is proven and that this is not a goady fucker.

I look forward to reading the study paper.

Who the fuck cares?

It’s true, though it’s WC fokbfrom way up north. Their windows and doorsteps are cleaner too and they don’t have those minging “yellow” net curtains.

Erm..what evidence do you have of this sweeping generalisation, OP?

Sweeping, vacuuming and dusting, presumably.

Sweeping, vacuuming and dusting, presumably

Well as someone in a clinical job my smelliest patients ( discounting dementia/ elderly patients) are from working class backgrounds.

This is a well documented fact if British society.

Ooh, don't leave us dangling!
please provide some links to all the documentation then ! I'm keen to see these studies (tho I do wonder who on earth funded this research...and why!)

My Mum was from a working class background, and has for many years counted herself as middle class, as do I, due to her education, career, interests etc.

When I was growing up, she drummed it into me that cleaning and tidying were to be avoided where possible, except for when it’s absolutely vital. She used to say that housework above what is absolutely necessary were pursuits for the working class, or those with a low standard of education. She also used to say the same about exercise. I have grown up thinking in this way, and it’s really hard to shake it off.

I've experienced this growing up with my wc aunties in their house coats and headscarves cleaning already immaculate houses. They took such pride in their homes and had a room you weren't allowed in. When I went to uni and visited umc friends I was a bit shocked at the state of some of their houses - either labrador hair dirty or boho dusty books dirty and not caring what visitors think

At least 'scruffy buggers' can wash and be clean whenever they want to, OP, whereas your disgusting personality is something you're stuck with.

DM was from Yorkshire, where everyone kept the house spotless, whether they lived in a back to back or a castle. Except people from Armley, who ate dripping and kept coal int bath.

That’s a huge unfounded generalisation. However, I could name a few ‘stereotypical’ mc people who have beautiful houses but they do look lived in. Working class MIL owns the most immaculate house I have ever been in, at the price of never worked a day in her life, no hobbies or friends. It also reeks of cheap glade plug ins and cigarettes.

@sonethingdifferent sorry, jokey tone doesn't come across at all. I have heard it lots/read it in a fair few places so I suppose it is well documented but the 'fact' bit was the joke. In that most British people have a least heard of not agree with it and a surprising number of people will accept it as a fact but I highly doubt that anyone has ever taken a wide reaching survey on the topic. But if anyone has I'd like to see it (well, more than anything I would want to know why they took it in the first place but anyway). It's like the 'fact' that lower class people prefer bright coloured flowers in their gardens and netting in their windows. Everyone knows that this cannot possibly be true of all people of that wider demographic but people still come out with it all the time if you see what I mean. It's a british class fact

I've never actually met, let alone spoken to let, alone been within 100ft of a working class person, so I wouldn't know

Loveyou how are you so certain?

Surely you have some staff, Tim?

I had a bath last week and it wasn't even my birthday [grin
I'm wc

I've never actually met, let alone spoken to let, alone been within 100ft of a working class person, so I wouldn't know

As a midwife who spends a lot of time in other people's homes I assure you there is no difference in class, wealth etc. I've seen some beautiful 1 bed flats on council estates and also million pound houses where you wipe your feet on the way out, plus the opposite and everything in between also.

I reckon you’re right op, if it wasn’t for my lovely cleaner I’d be living in s right shit tip,

Where does professional class lie? My house is tip cause I am always working.