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! 😁

This is intriguing? Do you mind me asking how your DGP grew up in poverty with aristocratic families?

Sheer curiosity really - it sounds like an episode of Who Do You Think You Are?

Who fucking knows? It's all complicated. My parents were working class. I'm a mixture of middle and working class. It's a lot less easy to classify people now. Probably made lower middle class. And how do you classify kids from homes with single parent if parents do different things?

I honestly don't know. Middle class childhood as dad was a vicar and mum came from a land-owning farming family, dad not really educated (dyslexia) but mum is university educated so I think that makes a middle class background. But since then I've spent many years dirt poor long term unemployed which seems more underclass to me, but now work in a working class job with a below median income.

How could your father have been a vicar without being educated?

He went to bible college but I meant educated as in university. But he wasn't really educated much in school either, he didn't learn to read until he was 13 and that was only when he joined a church and they taught him there but he's never been much good at it, and always has had to have someone else type his sermons for him (until speech to text software got better)

WC people definitely see me as MC.

But lots of MC people look down on me as not being one of them for various reasons:
Clothes
Being fat
Being on social security
Swearing
Accent depending on where they are from
Being unmarried
Having DCs with different fathers

To be honest, most threads I read on here don’t enrich my life. However, it can be enjoyable.

I would also point out that you chose to both read and post on this thread, despite its very clear subject line…

😆

That’s interesting, as I would have said there’s far more working class people on here than middle. I suppose that may depend on which threads you read though.

Why do you think WC people see you as MC

Welcome to another class thread - enjoy! 😁

I honestly don’t know. Low income family growing up. Mum actually did go to uni but refused to work. Dad left school at 16. I was a teenage parent. All very lower/working class I guess.

but now, I’ve been to uni, have a professional job, kids went to ballet lessons, and eldest now at uni. We have an above average household income but not wealthy. I don’t really know where I stand. I’m certainly not boden and jules type middle class, but I guess we kind of are now. I don’t know 😂.

By sheer dint of being ousted through primogeniture, i.e. having the idiocy to choose to be progeny of children born after the first male child at least several generations prior to their birth.

Most families suffer a similar fate

It’s interesting to see who you are getting advice from! I’d like an age poll too… every time I ask advice in style and beauty I get suggestions of outfits that look like they are for people 20 years older than me.

What class do you think you are OP, you haven’t said

Whilst I never ask this question about myself personally, I do find it so fascinating as to what prerequisites you would need to meet in order to be considered one or the other. For example I was brought up in a council flat with one parent, struggled financially etc and so this I would describe as working class, I assume that's correct? However I now earn approx £70k per year, own a large house and my partner and I are discussing private school options for our son, so does this change my class or does it come from my roots? I am also a proud brummie and don't like anything hoity toity 😂 I shop in both M&S and Aldi and enjoy holidays in the Caribbean and also Porthcawl, equally I buy bottles of moet and also £5 bottles of rose! I do find the whole class discussion really interesting in general though and have been enjoying reading some responses

Definitely middle class now (based on income, assets,social circle and circumstances), but I was born working class and survived and fled war so I don't hold myself to all the criteria of middle class.

Probably middle class I think. But skint and I have a job rather than a career.

Perhaps I'll, if we all defined class by the same parameters.

£70k a year goes a lot further in some parts that others. In the SE, £70k per year wouldn't afford you the same lifestyle and so you might consider yourself a different class there than say in Brum.

We own our terraced 3 bed. We have 2 newish cars. Earn between us 65k. Dog, 2.5 kids. Both come from council estates. Lower class.

£70k down here buys a mid range 2 bed flat if you’ve got a good deposit! We are looking for a small place in London for a town/country split and it looks like we’ll probably end up spending £500-550k for a 1/2 bed. Yet according to the Sunday Times we are Elite. Elites now live in one-bed flats 😂

Is "class" more mobile nowadays? Can I become lumpenproletariat?

Boy I love these threads I tried the BBC quiz everyone recommends but where I have a shared ownership home I got a completely different result depending on whether I put that I rent or own.

I've got bougie tastes though but I got told on another thread I can't be anything except lower class because I had my first child at 15. So the champagne, interest in horses and the book shelf were all for nothing? And my hatred of love island and fake tan? Apparently meaningless

Not ashamed to say these threads are my guilty pleasure 😉love reading them

Shows what they know. Tamara Beckwith had her first child at fifteen. It's one of those 'chavvy if you're working class, posh if you're upper class' ones. If you're a lady who got pregnant after a roll in the hay with the stable boy, that doesn't make you any less a lady 😁