[Closed] Apparently I'm "Established Middle Class"

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I'm in complete denial of my result and feel dirty after taking the test.

One has to ask?

DD, welcome, fellow Elite member 😉

What test Stoner? I don't remember taking any test.

Technical middle class

This is a small, distinctive and prosperous new class group.

I'm new, distinctive, prosperous and erm.. small.

Next thing you know, you'll be dropping your "aitches" next time you go down to the Arnolfini...

Technical Middle Class.

Proper niche...

Wow, Elite apparently, It seems to be my cultural interests that have pushed that up from Established Middle Class which feels more realistic.

[i]This is a small, distinctive and prosperous new class group. [/i]

I read that as preposterous.

sorry 🙂

This must've been done before. It's from 2013. But still, it's a monday morning...

Emergent service workers

This class group is financially insecure, scoring low for savings and house value, but high for social and cultural factors. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:

Are young
Enjoy a cultured social life
Rent their home - almost 90%

Culturally sophisticated but no cash

What a surprise

Don't go into engineering

My friends dragged me down, who knew?

I own a shop am I a chief executive or a shop assistant?

I'm one of the Elite 😯
Seems like social mobility is just a case of listening to all sorts of music and popping into the odd museum or gallery.

TMC here too. I suspect that will be the majority on here?

Emergent service worker, whatever that means.

I think its skint working class scum with delusions of cultural adequacy

The wealth bit is just a pseudo indicator for age, if you bought a house 20 years ago, you're wealthy no matter what job you do.

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Only ever got as far as Dangerous before....

elite or established middle class depending on including the GF’s property and income or not.
still working class though, grew up on a council estate, did spudding in the summer, get my hands dirty etc. just happen to like some of the things that ‘posh’ people do. much like my grandparents who worked on the railway and behind the bar but loved opera. if your formative years were in a particular class you stay that way.
i know plenty of middle class people who are poor and working class people who are millionaires.
these online test things are very hit and miss

Result: the class group you most closely match is:

New affluent workers

Hmmm PS worker I doubt that very much

New affluent workers.

Think I was saved when I admitted to listening to hip hop.

Established middle class, the horror.

I'm off to ritually purge myself of last nights white stilton with cranberries, rosemary crackers and sauv blanc (we were watching I'm a celebrity - that gets me a few credits back surely?).

Better get a pie for lunch to make up for it.

I think its skint working class scum with delusions of cultural adequacy

Yep, but because I know you (an artist) I get propelled into Middleclassville. You may be scum, but you're my kind of scum. 😉

If the wife hadn't gone part time to look after Tarquin and Cressida I may have even made it to the next category. Would that involve voting Tory and having a sex-wee into dead animals?

Culturally sophisticated but no cash

What a surprise

Don't go into engineering

Yep, emergent service worker here

Established Middle Class here (unsurprisingly), though I thought I might get Technical instead.

Surprised there are so many Elite on here though. I know we have a skewed demographic, but Elite is supposed to be only 6% of the population and an average age of 57.

You did all notice that it was income [b]after[/b] tax, yes?

(Not sure how this test can claim to be remotely accurate without considering location and household expenditure too).

Technical middle class, which I didn't like, so reviewed and now Elite - between the two I suppose.

@ mudshark - surely aspirant middle class would be a better fit? 😆

Precariat.
Might explain why I only own one bike and it cost £60.

Don't go into engineering

Established middle class, engineering rocks 🙂

elite or established middle class depending on including the GF’s property and income or not.
still working class though, grew up on a council estate, did spudding in the summer, get my hands dirty etc. just happen to like some of the things that ‘posh’ people do. much like my grandparents who worked on the railway and behind the bar but loved opera. if your formative years were in a particular class you stay that way.
i know plenty of middle class people who are poor and working class people who are millionaires.
these online test things are very hit and miss

I think if anyone did the test based on what shitty jobs they did whilst a student we'd all be on the bread-line. I don't think you get to call yourself 'working class' and own multiple properties between you. And the whole concept of social mobility is that you don't stay the same class as your parents (you move up/down).

To me the distinction was always:
Working class - you have spare time and you do some more work in it to raise a bit more money.
Middle class - you've enough money to spend a considerable portion on your free time (mountain bikes) and you might even do some voluntary work or work in a job you like rather than the best you could get,
Anything higher you've got more money than you spend, so you spend more than necessary on your free time (owning a brace of high end shotguns rather than having once been clay pigeon shooting on a middle class stag do).

You did all notice that it was income after tax, yes?

Same difference for the likes of me. 😀

Same difference for the likes of me.

Are you Amazon or Starbucks?

Maybe a comment for a new thread but class is absolutely fascinating mainly as some think it's based on family history and others on current circumstances.

I have 2 friends, a couple, 1 a lawyer, 1 an accountant, combined household income of £150k+, big house, lots of savings, very cultured in their tastes. But they're adamant they're working class as only 1 or her parents worked and he was a shop keeper, the fella's folks were the same, 1 worked, one was a car salesman. I'd say they're middle, bordering on upper class.

@ mudshark - surely aspirant middle class would be a better fit?

My family were aristocracy until my Father married beneath himself...I don't fir in anywhere 🙁

Are you Amazon or Starbucks?

Well, I post a loss every year 🙁 but I don't have the registered company in Luxembourg or Ireland. 🙂

Elite.

But you knew that already, didn't you?

[quote=jimdubleyou ]Technical Middle Class.
Proper niche...

It's an STW niche I think.

Though if I was brutally honest about my social life it wanted to categorise me as New Affluent Worker, which is strange as the first sentence is "This class group is sociable" - the algorithm appears to be broken.

Up the savings (the value of your investments may go down as well as up) and I hit Elite.

The "own your own home" question doesn't take into account mortgage and or equity which makes the whole financial part questionable anyway.

Precariat

This is the poorest and most deprived class group.

And I thought I was a bit posh.....I even read the Guardian ffs.

Still, I might be poor and deprived, but at least I'm happy.

Pile of shite test to conjure up some internet clickbait 😆

I did it too..

Leave you to guess the outcome..

Despite my best efforts to fiddle the results to become Elite. I'm still Technical middle class.

Elite but this is skewed due to my wife being a professional violinist so our group of friends and past times fit the survey profile. I'd say technical middle class would be more accurate.

To me the distinction was always:
Working class - you have spare time and you do some more work in it to raise a bit more money.
Middle class - you've enough money to spend a considerable portion on your free time (mountain bikes) and you might even do some voluntary work or work in a job you like rather than the best you could get,
Anything higher you've got more money than you spend, so you spend more than necessary on your free time (owning a brace of high end shotguns rather than having once been clay pigeon shooting on a middle class stag do).

dont really have a lot of spare time as being self employed ‘work’ boundaries are blurred and cycling has taken a back seat, never been one for holidays/audi’s as i travel a bit for work and dont own a car.
have an old english box lock non-ejector (same one since a teenager) and just do the odd rough shoot day on a local farm at christmas having been a beater for the gentry in my youth. have you seen how much it is for a round of skeet and box of 1oz 7’s !?? no way am i going clay shooting when the farmer wants the pigeons off his peas.

i still dont think you lose the influence of your formative years but how/what we consume doesn't always dictate your class.
my shoes are made by trickers my jumpers by uniqlo, my wine by Banfi, Murrieta and Chapoutier, but i dont have a cellar full and just have the odd bottle now and again, i drank in spoons last week and me and the GF shared a Burrito with free pint deal for lunch.
all the itinerant working people dwelling in non-fixed abodes near my folks all drive new range rovers.

Elite here - I'm sure it just because our house is worth over £500k (even though we only have approx. 50% equity in it) and we have a couple of friends with 'elite' jobs.
I'm a project manager (Engineering) and my wife a science teacher.

Technical middle class would suit us better.

i’ll just leave this here
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"At the heart of the Rakewell’s kitchen, as in any Chipping Norton homestead, is an Aga Classic in cream, the impractical marker of rural affluence. Resting on the hot-plates are a Le Creuset casserole dish in turquoise and an Italian-style espresso maker, no doubt acquired on an Umbrian holiday. The tiles are from Fired Earth (79p per tile). Also visible are a pestle-and-mortar (Jamie Oliver, Perry’s “God of Social Mobility”, is always banging on about them); a basket of eggs, convenient trays for recycling, and a Make Tea Not War tea-towel — a popular slogan from the ineffective Anti-War March of 2003."

Elite

@freeagent, I think thats the point. When people think of the elite or the rich its always someone else.