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

You have a job. You work. You are working class. You might perceive yourself as different from those who earn less, but you are still have to work.
It is those who don't need to work who are in a different class.

The middle classes have always worked, in professions.
The upper classes don't work. There aren't very many of them left.

Working class. I'm sometimes mistaken for middle class because I don't have a regional accent...

Er...having a regional accent, as you put it, does not necessarily mean you must be working class. 🙄And vice versa.

In the States, it’s all about money. I live in CT, and sure there are the old money Mayflower families, bedecked in Lily Pulitzer and who are heavily into skiing, sailing and sending their kids to Choate or Exeter, but they’re kind of a dying breed.

Do well at college and graduate school, or even as an entrepreneur or sports star without a formal education, and nobody gives a hoot if you came from the projects or a mansion.

For the American system, at least in the Roaring Thirties, The Great Gatsby is an informative read. Old money mattered much more than new money or no money.

Ws the initial source of the funds from trade?

No.

I mean the Roaring Twenties!

@mumwon

Yes the tv thing I've heard before. My house is like a library, though most of the books are second hand. There have been times we have not even had a TV (and certainly nothing over sized) plus no bedroom TVs (because we can't afford them). But that does not make my family anything other than WC. A lot of those social/cultural markers need to be given back to the history books, in a time when people can fit a library in their handbag thanks to kindle, a lifetimes supply of music is a monthly subscription charge inside a pocket sized device, and you can watch all the latest movies on a screen two inches away from your face in bed. But I still hear people saying "WC people have those big TVs"

WC people have those big TVs

If you have a TV in your WC (or rather your lavatory/loo) then you are very definitely not middle class.

Elite according to the BBC, DC is in the top 1% of earners, big London house. But we're working class, never been to Uni, hundreds of years of working class relatives.

Do well at college and graduate school, or even as an entrepreneur or sports star without a formal education, and nobody gives a hoot if you came from the projects or a mansion.

But also something about how you spend your money? The USA is the only country I visit where I don't feel well off and I can never quite work out why. It is about attitudes to money rather than money itself I think.

@Largeyellowdaffodil

I meant working class not WC. I am yet to see a tele in a toilet but nothing would surprise me. I have seen some impressive loo libraries, however.

Loo libraries? Hmm. Hygiene issues?

Class thread! Pour on regional inequalities and watch the fun

Any class that will have me

Haha, I love seeing loo libraries. From a safe distance, it has to be said.

@drina27

I know it does seem like an odd place to keep your books. But then most of us do shit, wash and brush our teeth in the same small room so it's not exactly a hub of hygiene anyway

Terminally upper middle class, but with very little disposable cash.

My DF always uses MC as an insult to sling at my DM and by association at me and DSis so consequently I always saw being MC as some awful thing and felt guilty. Funny thing is, by MN standards I reckon we're not MC at all

Doesn't everyone have a loo library?

Have a look on Pinterest, drina. They’re really cute. Admittedly I wouldn’t like to actually handle the merchandise, as it were, in someone else’s loo.

People who constantly upgrade their bathrooms, or any other room, are probably quite low in the class hierarchy

Another made up ‘rule’ for the game

Doesn't everyone have a loo library?

Of course they do

Loo libraries? Hmm. Hygiene issues?

How small is your lavatory?

I have a sofa, table and 2 bookcases in 1 of mine.

I don’t really know 100% what different classes are to be be honest - but I’d wager a guess and say middle class if it’s based on education. I’m a teacher, husband is an architect. Both of us have a masters etc. We could survive on one wage - but if both of us were to lose our jobs then we’d be up shit creek without a paddle to be honest so maybe the fact we have to work would mean we’re working class?

Either way I don’t care. We’ve got what we’ve got and we’re happy with it

I think that was sarcasm based on the very wealthy family up thread, having a very old, barely functioning bathroom. Remember for the purposes of many of these threads, all the upper class are shivering in their falling down mansions

@stopgap

In the States, it’s all about money. I live in CT, and sure there are the old money Mayflower families, bedecked in Lily Pulitzer and who are heavily into skiing, sailing and sending their kids to Choate or Exeter, but they’re kind of a dying breed.

DH grew up in one of the gold coast commuter towns in CT, and that was exactly the environment, but as you say it's going away. It's quite telling that back country mansions in Greenwich have dropped in price by about a third in recent years.

We're in the Hudson Highlands, so not far from you.