Poll: The Great British class calculator

What class are you?

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In the real world I'm technical working class (not middle class as this suggests), the real middle class is incredibly small & the upper class even smaller.

For one I have to work, I get paid a wage by somebody else & I my parents would not be able to fund a high-flying lifestyle for me if they decided too.

If the above applies to you, I'd argue you too are working class - it's been a deliberate move politically & ideologically to expand the "middle class" to include anybody with a pulse.
 
New Affluent Worker Allegedly:- Own my own home have an ok Job but I will go to the theater and do like a bit of Jazz but sfaic my cultural tastes should have no bearing on this what so ever due to the fact that no matter who you are, what you do or how much you are paid no one person is going to have the exact same cultural tastes hell you could be classed in the same group as someone who has the complete opposite tastes to what you have.
 
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Oh goody, I'm elite. That'll be London house prices and art college for you...

That's the most accurate result I had from a survey today.
 
So the survey greys out rentals over £125k.

Plus the social aspects will score you highly if you go to ballet, operas and other boring rubbish farts do.

Retarded and flawed.
 
krooton said:
Well I put owns home over 125k, socialises with scientists, but still got working class.

Must be down to lack of savings and not listening to classical music or going to the opera. :p
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Its not savings (I have none and less property than you), probably liking the theatre more than sports helps. I don't socialise with any of the ones listed, so didn't tick any.
 
I am Technical Middle Class.

I do not like how 'owning' your home somehow makes you more affluent, unless they actually mean own outright with no mortgage but they do not make that clear.

Also it seems to be almost completely and totally dominated by how much cash you have/make. The social side is a tie breaker if things are tied, i.e you can be elite without ticking anything but the economic boxes (and have no friends and do nothing).
 
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So the survey greys out rentals over £125k.
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Renting is renting, the value of the property is not needed as you do not own it.
If i change renting to owning the property I live in, it doesn't change my class.
 
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oulton said:
Technical Middle Class it seems. I rent.
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I think age is a big factor in this test. I'm just turned 28 and technical middle class. In two years when I buy a house I will jump into elite straight away :confused:

Who here went to a private school?
 
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Elite at 27 but only because of money. The rest is video games, watching sports and unemployed or low paid friends :p
 
Telescopi said:
Its not savings (I have none and less property than you), probably liking the theatre more than sports helps. I don't socialise with any of the ones listed, so didn't tick any.
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Actually, it is because I didn't declare my household income :D
 
Was surprised when it suggested I was established Middle Class, I have a lot of saving as I am going to purchase a house soon. When I revisited it with no saving and a house I was still Middle Class. I was kinda expecting it to be Technical Middle Class.
 
Technical middle class.

I have always considered myself as middle class I suppose. I am a qualified civil engineer, house owner (currently between houses, that is my only cheat), I have savings and pensions, approaching pensionable age.
 
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