Octavia156
OTO/EGC
did you mean hippies? I had a whole answer typed out until I saw that... whats a happie please?
Where would you have put yourself out of interest?
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The Great British Class calculator
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did you mean hippies? I had a whole answer typed out until I saw that... whats a happie please?
Where would you have put yourself out of interest?
Secret Chief
Very strong language
...which is why no one can understand me if I travel more than about 20 miles from home!!!!
Alceste
Vagabond
When I lived in Cornwall most people our age (30s) lived with their parents.
oldbadger
Skanky Old Mongrel!
did you mean hippies? I had a whole answer typed out until I saw that... whats a happie please?
Where would you have put yourself out of interest?
Not hippies! We're not cool enough! No..... we are HAPPIES, as in 'can't stop chuckling and giggling together! Totally daft!'
Where would we have put ourselves? Answer:- 'Completely outside the social and class system'. Honestly....... we have forsaken anything to do with class.
Octavia156
OTO/EGC
It placed me in Established Middle class which I'd say was correct.
Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
When my wife goes back to work the survey should place us into the Established Middle Class as well, although I still wouldn't find it an accurate classification. What I agree about definitions for classes such as 'new affluent workers' is the definition of culturally and socially engaged people, economically stable but not rich.
The classes which go above and below that, are really very traditional to the British mindset and landscape. In some regards they may make sense in the UK, at least from the social differences I have observed when I lived in the UK, but I don't think it is accurate to where I live now, or to other places in the world.
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Wherenextcolumbus
Well-Known Member
I'm an emergent service worker also
Octavia156
OTO/EGC
It may be that you are thinking in $ rather than £??
But you own your house, earn a high wage and have decent savings? That makes you elite - and at 26 impressive
If you own your own house and have savings you are in the top third of the country.
Caladan
Agnostic Pantheist
We own a place, until my wife goes into the Israeli market we are paying the bills from my salary, which I wouldn't consider a high income wage although it's a bit relative since I have other important benefits such as having all car expanses and fuel taken care of by my work place (perhaps not entirely uncommon today, but nothing to be taken for granted either). Unlike many other people we do have decent savings.But you own your house, earn a high wage and have decent savings? That makes you elite - and at 26 impressive
I don't see how that would make us close to elite or 'established' which I tend to associate with 'wealthy'.
That I believe I can agree with, but there is still a world of difference between being economically stable or secured to being wealthy.
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Octavia156
OTO/EGC
Secret Chief
Very strong language
Technical Middle Class.
How's a working class northerner supposed to hate the middle class if one has been redesignated???!!
How's a working class northerner supposed to hate the middle class if one has been redesignated???!!
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Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Tight, sure, but not arbitrary. Why those random few careers or those random few leisure activities?
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
It may be that you are thinking in $ rather than £??
But you own your house, earn a high wage and have decent savings? That makes you elite - and at 26 impressive
If you own your own house and have savings you are in the top third of the country.
Owning land and buying a home might be a bit cheaper and easier in the states than it is in the U.K.
Kilgore Trout
Misanthropic Humanist
What's with the contant drive to divide people? Instead of looking for differences and separating British people into arbitrary classes, we should be looking for commonalities that unite all Brits, such as gnarly teeth and an inability to cook a decent meal.
Apex
Somewhere Around Nothing
I made a slight adjustment for the currency issue, so its not that. While we doe have some savings and an IRA, it is still very small, and we rent.It may be that you are thinking in $ rather than £??
But you own your house, earn a high wage and have decent savings? That makes you elite - and at 26 impressive
If you own your own house and have savings you are in the top third of the country.
The survey also does not take into consideration things like debt. While on paper my wife and I may make quite a bit of money, but when you take into account that almost 40% of our income goes to student loans, the picture drastically changes.
Alceste
Vagabond
You got something against boiled meat?
Secret Chief
Very strong language
Presumably indicative of the classes.