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

What's an MN area?

We’re doing this again? If you’re working class then you’re working class, money has nothing to do with it.

What I meant by this was that if you describe yourself as working class or lower class, as the OP did, and then say that you’re wealthy now that doesn’t mean your class has changed. Of course social mobility exists, thank goodness it does. I do think that class and money are easily confused. If someone working class wins millions in this weeks lottery they don’t suddenly become upper class.

@alwaysmoody real middle class do not question other people's class

I did a quiz once to see if I was a chav. I answered yes to enough questions to qualify. Questions such as do you buy jewellery from Argos, do you call your grandmother your nan? I am working class but my mother said we are middle class despite us living in a very grotty council house!

@Bluesheep8

I think the OP was trying (too hard) to identify with the chattering cabal of MN'etters who get characterised on here as being from leafy or trendy areas of London. Think Wandsworth (the Tonsleys/Triangle), Balham, Dulwich, Peckham (but only Bellenden Road area) Stoke Newington (sorry, Stokey!) , Walthamstow (oops sorry, Awesomestow!)

Etc etc..

If you have to work for your money then working class

I belong to the upper class. I have a bruised and battered Barbour jacket, 150 acres of land, never-ending vowels and both a larger dog (black lab) and a littler dog (border terrier).

You should see the state of my Range Rover.

Class of 2001...

Middle class apparently after doing an online quiz 😆😆

Class of 2001... hahaha

Class changes after the 3rd generation of living a mc or uc lifestyle.
Money doesn't create a ladder to climb a higher class, social standing through generations do.
I am working class. For anyone who is confused, I have worked all my life, 2 of my siblings are professionals, one is a millionaire through building work.
We are all still wc. The area we live in housing prices vary hugely so we are all still close enough in distance and personality. most of the time, Dsis is a bit of a snob now

I find the obsession with class fascinating. To answer your question, I don't really know where I stand.

I was born into a coal mining village in the ealy 80s. Whilst it wasn't as poverty-stricken as it is now, it was already starting to decline. I lived in council houses for my whole life until I left home and rented privately. I spent my teen years living with a single parent on benefits. I have a different mindset to my mother though. She has never been able to understand why we didn't put ourselves on the council list to 'save money'. I can't wrap my head around her living alone in a huge 3 bed council house, whilst now earning an excellent wage, and refusing to move to allow those that need it more (she was insulted when her neighbour in a two bed flat asked if she would swap so that her family had more space, and then waved them off when they were rehomed five miles away).

I now live in a house that we own, my DH is a high earner (I'm not, he comes from a w/c background too, but he works in a well paid industry). Our children have private music and swimming lessons and we have two foreign family holidays a year, plus DH and I might have a couple of jollies away.

If we must put a label on it, working class living a middle class lifestyle? Especially as I'm not funding most of it!

Middle class apparently after doing an online quiz The particular quiz doesn't take family back round in consideration. Dsis think's she is m.c too from that bloody quiz.

I left school 32 years ago, so I'm classless.

emeraldshamrock I wasn’t being serious 😆

I have no idea, because nobody else does, either. I believe I started out working class on the basis that my parents had no education beyond secondary school and didn’t work in professions. I’m sure that my colleagues, anyone who interviews me and people who meet me on a day to day basis would call me middle class because I’m university educated, have an RP accent and am a higher earner in a management role. Most of Mumsnet would call me a chav, lower class and definitely working class because I have a giant TV, drive a blingy Subaru Impreza with gold rims (and like tacky bling and material possessions in general) and place more importance on having fun than reading books.

TL;DR, who cares. Other people’s opinions don’t really affect me.

I don't aspire to be anything other than what I am. I don't worry about what others think. I don't care what others have. I don't do the things others do because they believe it's what they 'should do'.

According to the BBC test I am established Middle Class except I'm not. It's a load of rubbish.

I'm Working Class.

Working class grandparents, LMC parents, solidly MC (according to my friends), elite (according to the BBC)

I always find these threads a fascinating read.
I’d say I grew up somewhere in the middle as my parents both came from educated families with lots of cultural capital but not a lot of inherited wealth. Both of my grandfathers attended university; one was a civil engineer and one was a judge. Both sets spent significant time abroad. I do not have a single aunt, uncle, cousin or sibling without a graduate-level education. My father was a university professor. Mother a SAHM. We grew up taking either camping holidays in the mountains or adventure holidays abroad (never resorts, much to my disappointment as a teenager; I have never been to an all inclusive). Grew up in a 4 bed detached with a big garden and dogs. Weekend activities were usually a country walk, fishing, or horseriding. Most of my parents’ close friends were either doctors, lawyers, or professors. We all speak at least three languages and most of us play musical instruments. Lots of orchestra concerts growing up, which I remember hating having to sit through. Car growing up was a modest Ford and we never had branded clothing—parents were frugal and quite anti-flash—and my father always cycled to work because it was better for the environment (this was back in the 90s before it was cool). My parents did not believe in private education, so we all went to state schools (except for my youngest brother, who went to boarding school because they moved abroad). We were the only ones of our cousins who were not in private schools. I remember finding that embarrassing.

drive a blingy Subaru Impreza with gold rims

I'm sorry, I judge you!! 😆😆

I think discussing ones class is like discussing how much money one has - it's vulgar.
If a working class person suddenly acquires a lot of money, and then flashes it around, they always used to be referred to as nouveau riche, but it's not a term you hear very often these days. It is usually characterised by a complete lack of taste, like Del boy in Only Fools and Horses getting all that money for the watch. (To select a fictional example. A real life example would be some lottery winners, or the woman who won the pools years ago and said she was going to 'Spend, spend, spend!') They remained, however, working class.The houses of the nouveau riche are usually extremely comfortable and well appointed, if a tad flashy, whereas those of the upper class/aristocracy (and even royalty) are freezing cold piles that are rarely decorated. All the furniture is antique but not necessarily well looked after. Curtains will be faded and sun damaged, although they will have been top quality when new 50 years ago, and muddy boots, clothes and dogs are essential accessories. I suppose they are eco friendly though, they believe in getting their money's worth and can't see the point in replacing something until it has virtually rotted away.

Lower working class.

@ambereeree I like that!

Oh no a class thread and I'm late to the party. Grabs bingo card.

Have we had

"Lovely salt of the earth old money people in their banged up cars" yet?

Or even, "Nasty nouveau riche types in their newbuilds and white Range Rovers"?

How about those chavvy types, no wait we can't say chavvy can we? Underclass then. Whatever, you know, those people not like us.

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