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 was not trying to add to a body of knowledge, just posting out of interest.

I don’t know why that pasted in such a large font - apologies!

Genuinely don't know what class I am.

My mum was the daughter of a senior army officer and had a private school education. My dad was the son of Irish immigrants, his dad worked in construction, and Mum was a school cook.

Mum rebelled and married my dad. Ended up in a council house which they bought in the 1980s. I am state school educated (albeit with a grandpa who taught me Latin and Greek every Saturday morning)

I now have post grad qualifications and earn £90k, DH earns more. Both of our kids went to good state grammar schools and are at university. We have a really good standard of living and enjoy lots of culture, theatre, art, music etc.

My mum thinks I am a snob because I like culture, have a detached house and do a very middle-class job.

My MIL thinks I am not worthy of her son because I grew up in a council house so I must be very working class.

Colleagues think I am posh because of the culture I enjoy, and they were stunned when I did an archaeological dig last year as they thought that was ridiculously posh.

BBC class survey thinks I am an 'elite'

All I can conclude is that class is something that other people pigeonhole you as.

Lol I just did that bbc class calculator and I'm
Elite [twirls]
Living in London, I'm
Sure there are many Elites who are not.

Even more special!

Ah, the disingenuous 'posting out of interest' or 'I was just curious' response. No surprise there. I hope knowing how a bunch of Mumsnetters categorise themselves enriches your life.

It's honestly not something I think about

My dad had his own business when I was growing up and it did very well. I went to private school, had lots of holidays abroad and ate out a lot. Lived in very standard detached three bed house that was extended. I think my parents considered us working class.

Now I'm in a professional role in a medium to senior role (think lawyer and dentist), we earn £150k as a household, live in a nice area... I'm not sure what class people would think of us as but I would think of our DC as growing up middle class 🤔

I'd say upper working class but I've just completed 2 different Class Indicator quizzes online and the results were:

Established middle class

Middle class

I just did the quiz and got Elite as well so they're obviously giving it away

Sorry @JessiesJ99 😂

I think middle/working are too broad categories that they’re a bit meaningless now. Even just reducing it down to newspapers as a proxy, middle class could be the Guardian or it could be the Telegraph, working class could be the Daily Mail or it could be the Morning Star. Obviously you don’t have to be those classes to read those newspapers but hopefully you get the vibes I’m trying to describe, which are completely different groups within the same high level bracket.

Solidly middle class. Dad was defintely working class, left school at 15 with no qualifations and worked on the markets until he went into finance and ended up as the MD of a financial services company,

my mum was solidly middle class, Nannie’s, boarding school and horses.

I was privately educated and went to uni; always worked in professional roles. My kids have been in a range of state and private. They’re well travelled and have been brought up with the whole theatre / museums / uni thing

however, I am 3rd gen British and a minority faith so I don’t think that we can ever be upper middle like the Middletons or upper class

You sound a bit like me, but I earn a bit more than you & am upper management (think boss like). I still think of myself as working class...

Just did the bbc quiz and it seems we are in the elite grouping mainly because we know people in a wide range of professions it's a bit of an odd quiz

Working class in origin. Went to university (well, former polytechnic). Married a solidly middle class man and now live a middle class life. Having said that, there are things that continue to mark me out as originally being working class (my accent, slang words I use and no doubt more besides). I still feel working class, but my DC are middle class.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/special/2013/newsspec_5093/index.stm

Is that you, Fergie?

Middle class. We are very middle of the road in terms of our income. DH's is a bit higher than average, and mine a bit lower, so it evens out.

When I was really small I would probably have been considered working class. My parents were in the kinds of jobs that at that time were in transition from a working class to more of a middle class income and benefits. However, my parents divorced and money was quite tight for a while after that.

Once my mum remarried we were firmly MC and by the time I was at university upper middle class. Which is still where my mum and step-father are. My father and step-mother are working class.

All Mumsnet users are just middle class and upper middle class LARPers didn't you know?

I've no fucking idea what class I am but I know I've got fuck all class and I'm comfortable with that.

First class all the way, baby.

I think you have to differentiate between individuals, and statements about groups.

On a statistical level there are differences in the kinds of leisure activities are enjoyed by differernt groups.

On an individual level, anything goes though. A fellow I work with, a very wc guy, probably has one of the greatest collections of classical music I've seen, he's really passionate and knowledgeable about it. My grandfather, also very wc, was a great lover of poetry and a poet himself, and actually very well educated compared even to many university educated people today, although he was self-educated.

How are you defining upper middle class? I would think it’s impossible to go from working class to upper middle. There just isn’t the upbringing, education, network or life experiences to support it.

I'm just classic 😆

Haha! No way!

I am working class aristocracy, granddaughter of a miner on one side and a naval officer on the other. Didn’t have a pot to piss in growing up due to a very acrimonious divorce but my mum always took us to museums and stately homes and the library. We were not allowed to watch itv ever. Although according to the bbc calculator I am elite.

It was a very interesting childhood to say the least 😂. My older sisters went to Cheltenham Ladies & Roedean. My brother's to Rugby.... I went to the little local primary followed by the local grammar. Yet I'm the only one with any sort of qualifications. Turned out Im a bit of a maths whizz.