I thought I was somewhere in the middle but I did that BBC thing and I have risen in the world to "elite". "Enjoy high cultural activities such as visiting museums and listening to
classical music
Went to private school and elite universities (That was a grotty convent and nursing school, which wasn't grotty).
Socialise with people who do a wide variety of jobs"
Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
Nah ... it’ll take a few generations ... when an impoverished aristo with a stately home to repair marries one of his sprogs to one of Beck’s ... that’s when he’ll have made it 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Surely nowadays nobody cares what “class” they or others are? The lines are not so clearly defined as they once were and getting more blurred with each generation. Good thing too!
Absolutely agree @debs64, except that somethings are easier if you went to a certain school or college and your family ‘networks’ with the right people. Sadly these things seem to apply more than they did in the 70/80s.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
raisingirl, I have done the "test to, , I am a new affluent worker, middle in terms of wealth,sociable, young,working class and own my own home. Well, I am retired, small pension, Hubby works part-time,affluent, haha, young, well 70 next year, own home, well they know that because i said its paid for. Seemed to be more about the type of friends you have, there wasnt a great selection. I put shop assistant, but one of my girls is a manager for one of the bigest supermarkets, the other a software expert, in a large well known store,was offered managers position last year (only in her 20s) but has 2 small children so cant work the hours required. Dove, I said JP, (and Chelsea is snobby) someone who loves gardening has main letter on todays Daily Mail, said he found Chelsea snobby as well.
Have you ever been to Chelsea FS yourself Nanny B? I have, laods of times , and what I love is the chat that goes on between people from all over the world who fly in to enjoy it for the plants and gardens and don't care where you're form or what you earn.
The only people I didn't know on that survey list was a call centre worker. I did the survey again but putting our income level as when we were employed and valuing the house by British prices, not French, and I am now established middle class.
Deeply flawed survey I reckon. Happen if I said I like opera I'd be elite?
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Have you ever been to Chelsea FS yourself Nanny B? I have, laods of times , and what I love is the chat that goes on between people from all over the world who fly in to enjoy it for the plants and gardens and don't care where you're form or what you earn.
The only people I didn't know on that survey list was a call centre worker. I did the survey again but putting our income level as when we were employed and valuing the house by British prices, not French, and I am now established middle class.
Deeply flawed survey I reckon. Happen if I said I like opera I'd be elite?