So what class are you in?

[alwaysmoody]

I see a lot of comments about social class "la di daaa"

So I'm curious to which class you would all place yourselves?

Honestly?

I'm from a LC background but I'm wealthy now from my own hard work and live in a MN area from what I've gathered (Chiswick) but I definitely don't fit in with these "mums" I still prefer having my friends from council estates in hounslow over

So what social classes are you from? And please be naice

I like the ‘if you have to buy your furniture you are not upper class’

I can’t remember where I read it though... possibly another MN class thread.

I like the ‘if you have to buy your furniture you are not upper class’

Same theme as if you have to buy your home you are not upper class.

I would say I was more 'on my uppers' class than 'upper class'.

I am a human.
In the classification of Homo sapiens.

Upper class inherit home and furniture
Middle class buy their home and furniture
Working class rent their home and put furniture on credit cards or loans
Lower working class live in council accommodation and hide from the bailiffs who want the furniture back they got from Brighthouse or Littlewoods and never paid anything off, or find it in a skip

Born into a middle class family, married a working class man- so now I'm working class but couldn't be happier and can't stand snobs

I'd love to be upper class for the beautiful houses - a medium sized Georgian house like Highgrove would be the dream - just gardening and walking the dogs all day.

I am mostly in the "don't give a shit what you think of me" class and live in a "working class when we bought it but now unaffordable" area.

Oh, and I think that class divides are silly - if you really want to feel like you don't belong, have a severely disabled child...

@MissConductUS, I think that’s happened for a few reasons: GE and other large companies leaving CT, and a change in what people want In the Gold Coast suburbs, which is walkability, proximity to the train station etc. The more back country parts of my town are a harder sell these days than the beach area, and I imagine it’s similar in Greenwich, with people wanting proximity to the Ave or the beach.

Lower working class live in council accommodation

I disagree with this. I live in a mix of council and ex-council, the majority of people on my road in council are working on a low income and pay their own rent. (smallish town and I do know nearly all the neighbours) Whereas the majority of people I know fully reliant on benefits/not working rent privately and have it covered by UC. I guess depends on area?

@anotherusernameinthejungle

I didn't say council houses, I meant b n b and the like. I would include renting off a housing association or council as renting.

Sub standard rentals from slum landlords are definitely on the rise though. I'd group them with bnb not a nice new build off the HA

Obviously it's all nonsense anyway

Class divisions are slowly but surely melting away, thank God.
The upper classes are not adorable people driving scruffy estates, wearing their grannies cashmere, they really are quite unpleasant, the only exceptions being the ones who have turned away from the charade.
Money is important to them. It does matter how you speak and what your father did and where you went to school, and they will mock or exclude people who don’t make the grade.
Stop romanticising them. They look down on you.

Meh, none of my business who thinks what of me. No chips on shoulders here.

Definitely live a middle class lifestyle, category a or metropolitan elite under the new system devised a few years ago. Born to working class/lower middle class parents depending on what category you use (c2 or c1). Though for political reasons we state educated.

Stop romanticising [the upper classes]. They look down on you

They really don't. It's very bad form to look down on people.

They really really really do love

I'm classic middle class. Homeowner, degree, I'm an accountant & we live in a naice suburb.

But let's face it its all a bit meaningless isn't it? Middle class probably covers 75% of the population in one form or another.

It's very bad form to look down on people.

It’s obviously bad form to let anyone know you’re doing it.

Looking down is probably the wrong way of talking about it. It’s more that they see those ‘below’ them as a different sort altogether.

Why do people say that because they are foreign, they can't take part in the debate? Class is not just a British concept and exists all over the world. Am I missing something?

I am foreign and there are definitely classes where I come from although I must admit not down to the nuances you have here (e.g. lower middle, middle middle, upper middle class)

AnotherMurkyDay, are you taking the piss?

BoardingSchoolMater

Stop romanticising [the upper classes]. They look down on you

They really don't. It's very bad form to look down on people.

It is.

I skipped gym class today... does that make me middle class or not working class? I just can't work it out!

@OneKeyAtATime, because while class exists in some form in most societies, in some places it’s more straightforwardly income-based, or is not quite as stratified as in the UK. And also because foreigners do not usually fit in straightforwardly in UK class terms, the shibboleths are different etc, and British people can’t often distinguish between say, the closest French equivalent of RP and a working-class regional accent.