Poll: The Great British class calculator

What class are you?

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Unsurprisingly I am "technical middle class".


Edit: I think that this fits my situation quite well.

- Slightly above average income (£30k-£35k bracket)
- Highly skilled job (research in engineering / maths)
- Homeowner (just!)
- Poor cultural activities (I enjoy a rather limited set of activities)
- Moderate on the social side of things (I came "from dirt", so to speak, so I know people at both ends of the spectrum, but have a small circle of close friends rather than a very wide range)
 
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Castiel said:
Elite....Which is pretty much nonsense as the cultural and the social part I ticked pretty much everyone and everything.
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That's how they've defined Elite... culturally and socially broad and with a high household income etc...

Though I do agree that its odd...

Really the whole thing is odd - I can't them setting any trends with these arbitrary classes - I certainly don't see people causally referring to themselves as 'emergent service worker class' in the same way people currently refer to themselves as working or middle class today.
 
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I'm an Emergent Service Worker according to that, principally because I don't have much in the way of savings currently and I rent. If I were to have a house I'd be in Established Middle Class.

I wouldn't put too much weight on it on an individual basis but as a general model for a varied population it doesn't seem too bad. It's obviously not going to be accurate for everyone but that's not really the point of it.
 
Efour said:
It makes perfect sense (sadly) Owning your own house is a huge asset to separate the wheat from the chaff. . Not owning one is... Not.
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Yes but how many people actually "own" their house. I suspect the majority have on OCUK actually are still paying off a largish mortgage. To me that would make me more financially insecure than a renter as I would owe a big debt to the bank!
 
dazzerd said:
Yes but how many people actually "own" their house. I suspect the majority have on OCUK actually are still paying off a largish mortgage. To me that would make me more financially insecure than a renter as I would owe a big debt to the bank!
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That depends on what percentage of your mortgage you've paid off...

But yes - as a new homeowner with just over 25% equity, I certainly feel a LOT more financially insecure than I did when I was still renting. If I lose my job, then I am, more or less, screwed until I find a new one. When renting I always had the option of housing benefit / JSA to keep me 'ticking over' for a year or so if needed.
 
Vince said:
Much the same, only I was brought up in a single parent family where my mum bless her had nothing, divorced young and was left with massive debts. I lived in temporary accommodation most of my life, worked as soon as I was old enough and paid my way through uni.

I'm not sure that this new-fangled class system is anything even like the class system of old.
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I'm intrigued why people think their class is defined by what their parents had to go through... with a bit of hard work and possibly a bit of luck it isn't hard to step up from working class to what I would consider middle class from one generation to the next? :confused:
 
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