What class are you?

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There are soooo many threads about class that are on this forum. I wondered how people actually identify.

I’m assuming there’s not too many upper class or aristocracy, or even royalty, and only have two options for the vote (I think).

So, YANBU is: Middle class
YABU is: Working class

Please vote! 😁

I’m not really sure anymore!

Born very much working class - first one to go to uni, qualified for financial support with fees, free school meals etc. mum a cleaner. grandad was an Irish immigrant labourer.

Now, own a home with mortgage, earn £50k, “professional” middle manager type job.

Am I partly middle class now (but with working class heritage?!) Or just working class with a bit more money (def not rich by any stretch 🤣)

Edited to add - if someone asked me I’d probably say working class.

I'd say working class.

I object to the concept of class, but I am as common as muck. 🤣

So you thought you would start another one 😆

Privileged scum. Lol.
I'm lucky in many many ways but unlucky in many others. Unable to work. Feeling harassed by the government who I thought cared about sick and poor people.
But I'm much better off than many.
I don't think social class is relevant anymore. It's all about how much money you've got. And I'm broke as fuck.

I'm underclass, me

👏🙄🥱

I’m from middle class I guess, now lower middle I suppose? (I don’t k ow who I’m asking😅😅)

i don't think it matters anymore... however i consider myself working class! my parents were working class, their parents were working class... i am working class.

but my career and my financial position would probably say differently! i wont lose any sleep over it.

Solidarity, me too🤣

I'd say middle class, but we've quickly become the stretched middle.
I grew up in a large. wealthy home, both parents with professional jobs, luxury holidays multiple times a year, good schools, went to university.
Now I'm a teacher, I was previously an accountant. DH is a finance professional for a bank. DC both attend a lovely village state school, we still have a holiday each year but I could only afford to take the four of us away once. (I understand I'm still lucky to do that).
Mortgage costs and the rising cost of living have killed us, our discretionary income combined is now less than when I was 18!

To what purpose should we identify ourselves by class?

Time lord class. Prydonian specifically.

I dont think it really matters anymore. But my grandparents were working class on my mums side, salt of the earth people.
On my father's side, middle class.
My mum has ideas above her station and would like everyone to believe she's aristocracy, but my parents definitely had a middle class lifestyle when they were together.
I think we're more middle class (me and husband) going off financial position and career.

Grew up upper middle, now probably lower middle

Mammal

Some of our evil overlords may be reptiles though.

I've been talking to my students about this and they don't identify as any class at all and find it fascinating that is was once important.

However, I'm like you and was born to a working class mining family and was the first and only to go to university. We now own a home and 3 cars and work in very middle class jobs. BUT I am working class. I don't think you can, nor would I want to, change class.

My DD has obviously grown up with two parents who are university educated professionals, homeowners and so on and her friends call her middle class. I find that very odd.

Thankfully, the whole thing is losing any credibility.

I also struggle to know where I fit in.

My Dad is proper son-of-a-bricklayer working class. My Mum is a solid ponies/boarding schools/trust fund/country house middle class. I would say my upbringing had elements of both. I went to all state schools (where I was gently teased for being posh and the other kid's Mums thought mine was stuck up) and I went to university (where I was the token commoner).

I think upper working class is the sweet spot, personally. All the perks of middle class with none of the class anxiety!

Similar background, but by definition (ie using sociological definitions), as soon as you attend university you become middle class. Your parents/grandparents were working class, but you aren’t.

Class is about indicators such as profession, education etc. Decades ago money/wealth followed those criteria ie a teacher was middle class by virtue of education and profession, and normally would have been considered a wealthy person in the local village because income and home ownership followed. The criteria haven’t changed… but the middle classes are much poorer now!

@ShowOfHands
I think you're right, you can't really change the class you are born into. The British class system is ever so complicated. For example David Beckham is loaded but still very much working class due to his upbringing. The Royal Family on the other hand, even if they lost every penny, would still be aristocrats.
Your DD sounds like she is middle class, but you are working class as a result of your upbringing.

Middle class, daahling.

Born in the middle.

Working now, my circumstances are very much reduced.

Lower middle
WFH laptop jockey job
Mortgage on an ex council house on the "respectable" end of the estate
Kids in slightly expensive extra curriculars.
Weirdly uncomfortable in the presence of anyone more than one social grade away in either direction.

Middle middle middle, used to be Upper middle middle, but someone made a poor investment in mushroom based PPE during covid.

No, he’s working class because he doesn’t have a ‘profession’ as it is understood (lawyer, teacher, doctor - requiring university education). Tbh being a sportsman in 2025 SHOULD count as a profession, but social sciences are a bit contrived in their definitions.

Ironically, given so many now go to university, 1/3 of those above the age of 16 in the UK are now technically middle class. Their children, likewise, now, so probably more than 50% of the population are now MC. It’s become a meaningless definition, frankly.