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To ask what social class you would say I am?

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flowersandcake · 27/06/2018 18:32

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?

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flowersandcake · 27/06/2018 19:30

I got UMC on the test someone linked but of course it could be inaccurate.

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SaltyPeanut · 27/06/2018 19:30

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divadee · 27/06/2018 19:30

I would say classless as you have to come on here and brag about all your money and private schools and charity giving.

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flowersandcake · 27/06/2018 19:31

It's a bit tragic how so many people are bitter towards me.

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Hassled · 27/06/2018 19:31

I don't think it has anything to do with ponies and violins and personal wealth. You could have all of those things and be any class at all. Instead, and because the UK is barking mad when it comes to class, it has way more to do with what your parents did, whether you have a regional accent, whether you inherited most of your furniture and cutlery or whether you bought it along the way, whether your parents went to a public school. Look at Kate Middleton - wealthy family, public school, the works - the Mail would still merrily describe her as middle class. None of it makes sense.

loveliesbleeding1 · 27/06/2018 19:32

You are trying too hard to sound posh.

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flowersandcake · 27/06/2018 19:32

Can someone please let me know how to report this thread to get it deleted? I think I reported the wrong thing.

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RyVeeta · 27/06/2018 19:33

Hence why
Working Class.

PortiaCastis · 27/06/2018 19:33

I agree with divadee

alphajuliet123 · 27/06/2018 19:33

Can someone please let me know how to report this thread to get it deleted? I think I reported the wrong thing.

Why would the thread need to be deleted? Interesting subject....

happypoobum · 27/06/2018 19:34

Oh no!!! Is it too identifying??? Grin

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flowersandcake · 27/06/2018 19:34

Okay! There's nothing wrong with being working class! A lot of you sound incredibly rude.

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flowersandcake · 27/06/2018 19:35

Mainly because I feel that many people are offended and it would be best to remove it.

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DieAntword · 27/06/2018 19:35

Underclass - long term unemployed and criminals
Working class - unskilled and semi-skilled occupations
Middle class - skilled, technical, some professional, lower and middle managerial
Upper Middle - some professional, upper managerial
Upper class - the aristocracy, those with titles and probably those closely related to them (but not those related to those related to them :P - e.g. my grandfather's mother had a title, he might have counted as upper class, but my mother doesn't and I certainly don't - I'm just barely middle).

Now you can say class is about culture not occupation but it follows anyway, people will adapt to the culture they work within and occupation will become culture in time.

yorkshireyummymummy · 27/06/2018 19:35

Don’t you just love it when a thread gets started, then the OP does not get the answers they want so they want the whole thread deleted!

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flowersandcake · 27/06/2018 19:37

yorkshire Were you one of those people at school who made everyone feel like rubbish compared to you? You appear to be the adult version.

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PortiaCastis · 27/06/2018 19:37

I'm not offended, I'm entertained by the bragging

RyVeeta · 27/06/2018 19:37

Okay! There's nothing wrong with being working class! A lot of you sound incredibly rude.
No, there isn't.
You asked the question.

WizardOfToss · 27/06/2018 19:37

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yorkshireyummymummy · 27/06/2018 19:37

No I wasn’t. Because I wasn’t a bragger.

Bluntness100 · 27/06/2018 19:38

I'm a bit lost on what's happening here.

Op did you say what your career is? Have I missed it? Confused

SluttyButty · 27/06/2018 19:38

@formerbabe I'm from a very middle class background too but I definitely slid down the scale because I do like a bit of naff nice , cheap Ikea furniture and see myself as classless. I really couldn't give a toss what anyone thinks of me, yes I had a fairly privileged childhood but I messed up big time repeatedly in adulthood much to my parents despair and now I am the girl with the posh voice in a small house on an estate in the Cotswolds 😂

loveliesbleeding1 · 27/06/2018 19:38

I don't think it will get deleted just because you are throwing your toys out of your (silver cross) pram!

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flowersandcake · 27/06/2018 19:38

No he doesn't wizard :D Thanks x

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flowersandcake · 27/06/2018 19:39

It's a bit identifying.

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