Are you middle class?

Technical middle class. I wish I knew what that means.
It has given me something else to worry about.

Lol I'm (almost) feeling regal this morning - just took the test and I'm established middle class !

?Iain

I appear to be established middle class, but after three marriages I started off with nothing and I still have most of it left!

I work and everything I own I have paid for with the money I earn so working class and feeling proud.

Elegran and Grumpa I have also joined your very small elite section. Is this because I own my own home, live in London so would get a lot more dosh for it here than in eg the north of England. It cost me £82.5K in 1996 and that was an awful struggle then. Whatever I got for it now, it certainly is not worth the London prices.

In an ideal world there would be no thought of class. But in reality there is.
I did the test and am traditional working class, which is exactly how I would
describe myself.

Elegran agreed the questions are nonsense and so so stereotypical - daft

Find myself agreeing with you again, GJ!
These quizzes are such nonsense and I believe designed to access your Facebook details. The questions are tosh and so superficial nobody could seriously take the results as legitimate data.
Like Accent however, I am perplexed why and how in the 21st century, anybody should be concerned about "Class" in the Mitford/Bucket sense. There are admittedly socio-economic categories designed to inform, for instance, advertising and merchandising but even that cannot take account of the individuals we all are.
As somebody said "up thread"
"If you have to ask, you aren't!"
(Now, where's my flat cap and my whippet ........."Carson!")

In my opinion being middle class is very little to do with how much money one has.

And, we all know that Hyacinth Bucket was the based on my mum!

My mother was so Hyacinth Bucket in fact my dad's nickname for her was Mrs Bucket and that was thirty years before the TV series.

I have no time for class, it just keeps people in their little boxes and massages ego, so Hyacinth Bucket

In my view, there are just two "classes" of people - those that need to work or to receive benefits in order to live, and those who can live off the the interest and dividends that their wealth provides for them.

There have been so many different definitions of what class is and, I believe, an unhelpful preoccupation with who belongs to which class. At one time I seem to recall it was determined primarily by the sort of job that a person did, save for the "upper class" which was split into two levels upper upper - aristocrats/landed gentry/ "old money" and lower upper - business owners/entrepreneurs/"new money". Different class structure models put different emphases on various other factors, such as education/parents' education, "lifestyle", blue collar/white collar/professional occupation, etc. etc. To my mind, it is all a nonsense.

I can see no point in having a class model, other than to make the majority of people believe they are superior/more deserving than one group and/or inferior/less deserving than another (as the TW3 Corbett, Barker and Cleese sketch demonstrated so well).

Established middle class, according to the quiz. DH top management and OBE. We have two homes and children were privately educated.
In reality I am no different to anybody else.

I think I qualify as middle class - Mum & Dad were very successfully upwardly mobile all their lives, and Dad retired with an OBE for his work in the Scottish Health Service. My husband & I were both qualified Social Workers. So far, so good. However, we ran a mixed species animal rescue off our own money as we didn't want all the faffing and officialdom of seeking charity status, and we still have many animals and birds with the result that since my husband retired, we're dirt poor and living in a falling down house. So that'd make us an anomaly in middle class terms.

But who really cares? Nobody who's worth caring about!

I know a local family who are stinking rich, and despised by many, because they genuinely appear to believe that they are better than those with less money, and are entitled to respect! No, no, no - you earn respect, it's got b-all to do with class.

YES!
I would be classed by marketresearchers/ pollsters as "Middle Class": home owner /higher level education/Masters Degree/professional qualification/ job involved line managing large no. of staff etc etc. but no inherited land/home/wealth so had to work for a living.

I have never been enbarrassed by being "middle class" even when it has been very unfashionable to be so! I am who I am and was fortunate to be born to parents ( one working class, one foreign) who were open minded, politically aware, valued the importance of work, family life, education, good citizenship & community involvement. These attitudes and values are not 'class' based but I think contribute to making a generation able to 'transition' from working class to middle class.

DH is also "middle class" now but like may came from what would have been classed as "working class" family. Privately rented 'rooms' (eventually rehoused to council flat), dad an electrician, mum shop worker. Again his parents really valued education, strong work ethic etc etc. DH passed 11+ and went to local grammar school and mixed with a range of boys some from similar backgrounds but many with more affluent /professional homes.

Maybe like immigrants one can be first/second/third etc generation middle class

Trouble is that 'blurring' of class lines happened after WW2 in the growth years and into the 60s.when there was lots of "social mobility" The social and economic context is not the same now and there is not the national / political drive to improve the opportunities for ordinary people in the same way as after WW2.

Class is more aboutvalues and attitudes than wealth or lack of!

Can't get to opera or ballet, much as I'd like to. I used to . And Stratford for a bit of Shakespeare

Work to earn a crust.
So got to be working class!
I have come across people who I call
'Posh Poor',as they would consider themselves very middle class or even upper class , but don't have two pennies to rub together.

Elegran agreed the questions are nonsense and so so stereotypical - daft.

I am delighted to be in your company as elite, elegran, but I felt that in my case the result was built on pretty scanty evidence!

Established middle class, I am guessing its based on a huge range of people in our 'local' coming from all walks of life....

We did this test before. My result was a load of rubbish. There were questions on "Do you occasionally or often go to the opera?", ditto ballet and concerts. As I had not done any of those for about a year, I answered "no" to all three. Came out as traditional working class.

Then I decided that "occasionally" could mean once a year, so I went back and did the test again, the only change was the "kulcher" one. I came out as elite!!!

So if you are working class but like music and dance (occasionally), you suddenly become elite.

Rubbish!

who cares?

Classless. Others can think what they like. It's who you are, not what you are that matters
#rantcentral

Established middle class for what it's worth

ha ha - I've done the test and i'm a new affluent worker but I don't fit the description of the people who are new affluent workers - personally I think i'm lower middle class or upper working class!!