Which class are you?

[Immenseman]

Well I'm not sure, my step-mum and my Dad both came from very working class families. One in Essex and one in Glasgow and have stuck with those fundamental working class ideals throughout their life. They've worked hard and both hold professional teaching roles. However, at the beginning of my life I lived in a council house and there wasn't any money etc. Although that was when my parents were together and my mum was a house wife and my Dad just earnt enough to pay the bills let alone raise 3 children.

Now though, as us 5 have got older (2 step and 2 real sisters) they've been able to excel and have been the subject of numerous promotions. Managed to buy a 6 bedroom house, have 2 reasonable family cars and got me and my step-sister our own car earlier this year. So I would guess I'm middle class now.

[Jordy]

Well I'm not sure, my step-mum and my Dad both came from very working class families. One in Essex and one in Glasgow and have stuck with those fundamental working class ideals throughout their life. They've worked hard and both hold professional teaching roles. However, at the beginning of my life I lived in a council house and there wasn't any money etc. Although that was when my parents were together and my mum was a house wife and my Dad just earnt enough to pay the bills let alone raise 3 children.

Now though, as us 5 have got older (2 step and 2 real sisters) they've been able to excel and have been the subject of numerous promotions. Managed to buy a 6 bedroom house, have 2 reasonable family cars and got me and my step-sister our own car earlier this year. So I would guess I'm middle class now.

Indeed it seems so. Some people reckon that it's impossible to change your social class because of things such as values so that's why I've limited the poll to your upbringing rather than what you currently are. For example John Prescott is adamant he's still working class despite now being a millionaire because he's kept the same values and morales.

Edit:

going by that i'd say working then, because both my mum and stepdad left their old relationships and houses without anything really so had to start from scratch. and neither jobs are particularly amazing.

Indicators of working class would be whether the council own house/flat you live in, do the government offer you much support in terms of benefits, whether parents are living by themselves, are their wages around the minimum wage and do you need qualifications to do the jobs.

[Jord]

people call most people in kenilworth s**** and stuff and people in kenilworth call people on my road s****.
so i suppose im classed as upper class snob?

Chav



I'd say im upper middle class

[Meanies]

Indeed it seems so. Some people reckon that it's impossible to change your social class because of things such as values so that's why I've limited the poll to your upbringing rather than what you currently are. For example John Prescott is adamant he's still working class despite now being a millionaire because he's kept the same values and morales.

Edit: Indicators of working class would be whether the council own house/flat you live in, do the government offer you much support in terms of benefits, whether parents are living by themselves, are their wages around the minimum wage and do you need qualifications to do the jobs.

No but it's a little rented terrace house. but it's close to everything we need to it's a good place for us. but then when i was little and lived with my mum and dad it was a council house but then we bought it and then they split up like a month after. tbh i'd say my dad was 'better off' than us and he lives on his own, but in the house we'd bought so doesn't have to pay the rent. My mum and stepdad earn more than 30k a year because I don't get EMA but it was only just over, and that was because my stepdad got a promotion for a year. and my mum got pregnant when she was 16 so didn't do college so she doesn't really have many qualifications, but i think she did do some night school thing after to get some. but now she can do courses at work anyway to earn some and her work pays for them anyway

oops i didn't think i'd wrote that much

[buttons]

that's exactly same as me jake, except i get full ema because it's only my mum who has an income in the family. my mum had decent pay and my dad had and still has a very generous wage so we were well off at the begining and they both put together their money and bought the house i'm living it atm. but after he left and the hospital mum worked at closed we kinda struggled for money a bit so now she works 2 jobs + takes any others she can so i'd say we're working class even though she has decent qualifications and we have our own house..

at school so many people reckon they're upper/upper middle class. i don't think anyone really knows the true meaning of it :S

[Jordy]

No but it's a little rented terrace house. but it's close to everything we need to it's a good place for us. but then when i was little and lived with my mum and dad it was a council house but then we bought it and then they split up like a month after. tbh i'd say my dad was 'better off' than us and he lives on his own, but in the house we'd bought so doesn't have to pay the rent. My mum and stepdad earn more than 30k a year because I don't get EMA but it was only just over, and that was because my stepdad got a promotion for a year. and my mum got pregnant when she was 16 so didn't do college so she doesn't really have many qualifications, but i think she did do some night school thing after to get some. but now she can do courses at work anyway to earn some and her work pays for them anyway

oops i didn't think i'd wrote that much

You're probably like Immenseman then but it's difficult to tell, either way it's pretty borderline. Most likely you've gone from working class to middle class.

at school so many people reckon they're upper/upper middle class. i don't think anyone really knows the true meaning of it :S

I see what you mean, some people just don't understand the social classes at all but at the end of the day they're pretty meaningless and classes aren't quite what they used to be. Working class used to be far worse for example and middle class used to be more difficult to achieve. And values used to play a much bigger part although today, I think society generally has the same morales.

[Hecktix]

Haha.

Well here goes

When my parents were together we were upper class

5 bedroom house in a very well respected area, Dad earning £80k & mum was a housewife.

When my mum & dad split my mums new husband wasn't as well off and we were probably middle class

Now mum's on her own we're working class

Haha

[Black_Apalachi]

Isn't upper class royalty and maybe the very wealthy families with heirs etc and working class are labourers (farmers etc) while the majority of the UK are middle class?

Anyway I voted for the wrong one.

[Misawa]

Middle class.

[Meanies]

You're probably like Immenseman then but it's difficult to tell, either way it's pretty borderline. Most likely you've gone from working class to middle class.

Yeah something like that
It's weird though because my mum's family have been pretty middle/higher class with my grandad being a headteacher and gran being a teacher and they have a pretty nice house, new cars every year and whatnot. Whilst my dad's side is working class and my gran on that side lives in a council house with a pretty old car But now it seems to have swapped with my dad being more middle and my mum more working