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Nope. it's the aristocracy. You must be titled or royalty. No matter how many properties you develop to allow you to buy Range Rovers to take Trixible to Pony Club, you wont become upper class.
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Nope. it's the aristocracy. You must be titled or royalty. No matter how many properties you develop to allow you to buy Range Rovers to take Trixible to Pony Club, you wont become upper class.
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You trend setter you
OT - nothing fancy in my street. An 07 plate Corsa is about the newest but then i dont live in a particularly well off neighbourhood
My Uncle Sammy has Pony & Traps & Four wheel drives. Are we posh or Gypos
Do you work? If so then unfortunately, you are no higher than the dirt on penski's shoes.
You filthy gypo.
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Most cars long my street are no more than 5-8 years old. People change their vehicles a lot. Not many people care about badges along my road, but most cars are rather smart and in good nick. In my part of London most people could afford Porsche's etc... but they're just not that type of people really - and most use public transport.
No, they're just losers.
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Such arguments can't really be condensed into a few sentences. The term has evolved over time (and still seems to be). There are more segments that certain socio-economic groups fit into these days.
Eg - Some may perceive very wealthy people with power (not state) as upper class, others perhaps upper-middle. In America I think wealthy people are referred to as upper.
Since when? University educations have, until recently, been reserved for those who could afford it. This has of course changed in the last century or so (being generous) with more people in a position to afford university, but pre-20th century I would argue that the ability to enter university education was often reserved for the wealthier middle sections of society.
This depends entirely upon what you base class on. If it's based on wealth, then yes, it is possible to aspire. If your going to base it purely on heritage then of course, no, its not possible. I personally have no real desire to change my class, but then I find it exceedingly difficult to determine which class I'm in.
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On our street there is a Dodge Ram SRT-10 Quadcab, Ford F150 Lightning, BMW M3, Range Rover (and previously Ferrari 360), and that's just one house.
Other than those, pretty much boring cars with the exception of a nice Audi R8 round the corner.
Other than those, pretty much boring cars with the exception of a nice Audi R8 round the corner.
None of that here, next door have a pair of Vauxhall Corsa's, next door on the otherside have a People Carrier fairly newish & french but can't remember what it is.
Across the road we have a Clio, 1.4 Astra & Mk3 Mondeo, next to them is an Astra too and on the other side of them a MK1 focus. Theres an E39 BMW across the road but it's unbadged.
On our drive we've got a '97 Peugeot 406, '92 Volvo 940 Estate, '99 Astra Van & an '83 Ford Capri 2.8i.
Nothing too out of the ordinary and it's the same on the entire street.
Across the road we have a Clio, 1.4 Astra & Mk3 Mondeo, next to them is an Astra too and on the other side of them a MK1 focus. Theres an E39 BMW across the road but it's unbadged.
On our drive we've got a '97 Peugeot 406, '92 Volvo 940 Estate, '99 Astra Van & an '83 Ford Capri 2.8i.
Nothing too out of the ordinary and it's the same on the entire street.
off the top of my head, rhere's a new shape mitsubishe L200 truck, a rover 75, an Audi A2 (next door), an R plate corsa, then next door to my neighbour, i think he works in the car industry as he drives something different every week, currently a BMW 330D estate i think (07 plate), then theres a seat toledo, over the road from them is a Daewoo Matiz, next to them, an MGZR and a ST220 and then next to them a saab convertible so nope, nothing special there
Chip shop is thursday (pay day)
I go to the workingmans club christmas and new year but would still consider myself to be middle class
Generally speaking the middle classes don't need to wait until Pay Day before they can visit the fish and chip shop.
That's not very middle class either really?
I wouldn't say so, nowadays you get all this middle class scum, boring as you like. Nice people but of absolutely no interest to me.
Sort of people who compete with their neighbours, mow their lawn loads, wash their car loads. Think there is an ideal way to do everything, raise their kids to be as boring as them and wont let them make some decisions.
Don't get me wrong, they're not bad people but they're like having a light salad for dinner, I'd rather sausage, mash and a bit of cake, more nourishing, proper food.
And anyway I'd say there was a lower class, which is council estate scummers. I certainly wouldn't consider them working class because most of them lack a job.
As you earn more and do what you do, you don't make a leap of class, it's how you act.
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