To ask what social class you would say I am?

[flowersandcake]

Hello!

So my friends and I were discussing class issues and one friend told me that I would have 'no idea about anything as I'm upper class' and another strangly interupted and mentioned that I'm working not upper class? I personally thought I was middle?

My situation is:
5 bed house worth 900K, no mortgage
2 Teenagers
Lucky enough to pay for their uni fees and sixth form fees, both at private sixth form, one went to a grammar and the other a state secondary school
DD owns a pony and DS used to
DD plays the violin and DS the drums
2 holidays a year (one longer one and either a week in cornwall/scotland or a couple of weekend city breaks)
Household income of 110-140K depending on the year as DH is self employed and can earn up to 90K.

I promise I'm not boasting or anything, we give 10K a year to charity and DS is in the process of persuading his dad to give his uni fees to a charity.

So what class would I be in your opinion?

Arrghh I have to ask, I will die of curiosity.
So ex husband:

• Went to one of the oldest catholic schools in the UK, but it was free/state
• Earns around 120-140K now (not sure about the bonus), working in investment
• Economics degree
• Does not have horses :)
• I don't think his mum has ever worked, his dad is from a farming family turned construction worker, neither has a degree
• Family house was in Kensington

Upper middle

Oh deary me. You have no class at all. Just feeling entitled!

Also I don’t want to be a dick but if you’re in your 40s and a banker earning 60-90k, things have gone terribly, terribly wrong.

This was my thinking.

Petit bourgeois, not ruling class or proletarian. It's about your relationship to means of production and control.

She's gone off in a m.c huff now. Guardian is a managers paper these days

I’m from a working class background / council house etc etc but I used to listen to radio four with my mum! Don’t know what that makes me.
Mind you - we always read The Daily Mirror. I was not aware there were any other papers till I went to secondary school/ work.

I expect she is at a 'supper party'

My theory about class is that if you claim not to know what class you are then you're middle class.

Thanks for testing the theory, OP.

Doesn't it depend more on what your parents did, if you were privately educated etc? Rather than possessions/money?

I think OP is just having a laugh

So, you have a rich husband and want to know what class you belong to?

Why do some women do this?

You may have security but you still sound insecure.

Super party always makes me think of Abigail’s party! That didn’t end well.

Supper rather

What is your own educational background and what qualifications have you? Your education status plays a part in defining your class status.

My dad was an investment banker but my fave food is a kebab!

The OP really did flounce off! not placemarking for the deletion message

Missingstreetlife that's economic class not social class

I blame Mrs Thatcher for letting the pesky working classes start to own a home - it’s muddied the waters regarding class. Dunno where we are these days.

Thrilled to bits, when I read these threads, that I am no longer in the UK and contending with this nonsense.

Sadly, talking 'money' and asking about class means you have none imo. The figures don't add up, and the vocabulary and spelling don't match the education/background.

I'm also going for chinny reckon.

Hmm....this makes me wonder what ‘class’ you are if your parents never worked, but were exceptionally poor?

For example- grew up in a huge falling down house with buckets catching the leaks, several smelly dogs, rattling old Volvo, nothing on finance ever, hand me down clothes and furniture.

Surely not working class- as that implies that someone was doing some work....but?

I think she has confused 'new money' with 'upper class'. Too very different things.

@ScreamingValenta - thanks, that does make it quite a bit clearer. And I think you're right about the fact that not having royalty here. The US Constitution specifically prohibits the granting of titles of nobility. It's a bit dicey for a US citizen to receive such a title from a foreign government as well, although it's generally overlooked as being just honorary.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_of_Nobility_Clause

@IamScarfaceClaw What were the family living off, in your scenario?