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[Lockhouse]

My background is working class, I'm middle class now but I remember where I came from.

[ctdctd]

Father was an officer in the Royal Navy but he had no money or breeding.
Think that makes me middle class, whatever I do in life!

[sasguru]

It's very simple. The working class emigrate to Spain. The middle class to France, and the upper class... well, modesty forbids.

Poll added.

Emigrating anywhere for work makes you middle class at best (depending on the work).
If its techie stuff, you're lower middle class.
HTH

[speling bee]

Father was an officer in the Royal Navy but he had no money or breeding.
Think that makes me middle class, whatever I do in life!

And look how you've wasted it all.

Former submarine captain emails children to say he is 'bitterly disappointed' in them - Telegraph

[VectraMan]

If its techie stuff, you're lower middle class.

I'd consider myself upper lower middle class, but strive to become lower upper middle class.

[speling bee]

I'd consider myself upper lower middle class, but strive to become lower upper middle class.

Have you never read any of George Orwell's autobiographical essays about the horrors of being lower upper middle class? The kind of people who (c. 1910 - 20) who know in theory how to deal with servants but can't afford them.

I grew up in a family clinging on for dear life to the lower rungs of the lower middle class, which paid considerably less well than their 'respectable skilled' working class roots. I think I am now firmly ensconsed in the upper lower middle class.

The poll option needs many many more options.

[Mich the Tester]

Emigrating anywhere for work makes you middle class at best (depending on the work).
If its techie stuff, you're lower middle class.
HTH

Oh what a relief

I emigrated for a landed Dutch girl.



(entirely coincidentally, she's blonde with big knockers)

[NotAllThere]

Emigrating anywhere for work makes you middle class at best (depending on the work).
If its techie stuff, you're lower middle class.
HTH

You are absolutely spot on, strangely. However, I really meant people such as myself who didn't emigrate for work.

[NotAllThere]

Have you never read any of George Orwell's autobiographical essays about the horrors of being lower upper middle class? The kind of people who (c. 1910 - 20) who know in theory how to deal with servants but can't afford them.

I grew up in a family clinging on for dear life to the lower rungs of the lower middle class, which paid considerably less well than their 'respectable skilled' working class roots. I think I am now firmly ensconsed in the upper lower middle class.

The poll option needs many many more options.

If you're worried about being upper middle or lower middle or any other variation, trust me - you're middle. But I have edited it for you.

[sasguru]

...people such as myself ....

Just for your info, religious types in every society are always working class, since they have been brainwashed by the upper level of that society. Of course there's a layer of that upper level that professes to be religious in order to make the rules.