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?

Middle class and Nouveau Riche. Your social class is more dependent on your background and upbringing, economic class on your current income. So if your parents were working class that is your background. While your current lifestyle and income places you in the middle class.

I can say that my background is firmly working class and my current income and education level is middle so my children are middle class. The Upper classes are defined by their family history and it is entirely to be have little cash and be veh veh posh.

You are on a high street and want a snack, where do you eat?

Now I've tasted a cheese and bacon hot pastry thing I'd be in Greggs every single time 😂

You are on a high street and want a snack, where do you eat?

Posh people don't have a snack on the high street.

Get a life, you jealous, sad biscuit brigades. I'd think you're middle class.

You are on a high street and want a snack, where do you eat?

Anywhere I can trust not to feed me onions >_>

@zzzzz
Eating in the car is upper class?
Please someone explain this.

I love class threads....

Surely it's where and how you are raised? I am working class, grew up in a council house in a working class town. DH similar. Nowadays we are in the 900k house earning 160 etc between us, so I would say our children will be growing up middle class.

I have lots of middle class friends and feel fairly patronising towards them sometimes. They have literally no idea about life outside the moneyed bubble. Very good friend who I do absolutely adore was having a little whinge about her childhood because it was apparently really really hard going to a top private girls school when you aren't that academic. Had to smile to myself as my school days were lots of people smashing windows in the school corridors and people carrying knives. Having said that, I am really bloody thankful to be in the moneyed bubble and am really pleased my children will be cushioned from a lot of the stuff as grew up dealing with.

I don't think this is real.

How is your household income up to 140 k if you don't work and your husband only earns up to 90?
Your husband is a self employed banker? Who can earn up to 90K which means some years he earns as little at 40?
You pay two sets of school fees/uni fees, a grand a month for a horse, you've two holidays a year and also give ten grand a year to charity?

I think this is made up.

I think it’s more to do with attitudes than money.

Upper middle

Self employed banker?

Is that a euphemism for loan shark?

I would say middle class in the traditional sense as I view the upper class to be aristocracy. I do however think there is a difference between 'class' and 'classy,' my grandma was one of the classiest people I ever knew, she spoke well, she had impeccable manners, dressed smartly however she hardly had any money. To me class is something you are and how you conduct yourself, not something determined by wealth, house etc.

Have the school holidays started somewhere already? 🙄

Stealth bragging class

Definitely not working class. Too wealthy. Definitely not upper/upper middle (children in state schools). I would say middle middle/C1. Probably.

Since we're playing "what class are you?":
DH was born in India to a mixed race mother whose DF was a manager on the railways and a Welsh/English father in the Indian army (officer) whose father was a vicar. DGPs came to the UK and became not very successful tenant farmers. Both had RP accents and very hot on manners.
What class would people say DF was?

Upper is definitely aristocracy, so unless your fil has a title and an estate they are not upper class. You could be established middle, or more likely, depending on your background, aspirational working. Your dcs could well be middle though.

'Class' in the UK is a very complex concept, and can't be defined solely by lifestyle and income.

This is a complete and utter mystery to me as a Yank. I think that we're somewhat less class conscious here and it's more simply determined by income and financial assets.

What was your father's occupation?

This is one of the best ways of defining someone's 'class', if you really need to do such a thing? Social mobility in this country is so hard to achieve that, whilst there will be exceptions, most people can identify their 'status' from their father.

Class cannot be defined by possessions and property (unless you happen to own an inherited family estate, making you upper class). It is a strange, incalculable algorithm of birth, occupation and education primarily.

Anyway, I'm proper posh.

Did you pay 900k for your house & have paid of that value mortgage or are you older & your house has just increased loads in value?

Care too much about class = first generation lowere middle.

@formerbabe those are socio-economic groups, not classes!