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What class are you, ie. working, middle, upper class.

I myself are lower/middle class.

Poll coming.

I'm also lower-middle class.

Upper-Middle

Today, middle-class.

Later this month or the month after, probably lower-middle.

I still love capitalism though.

I'm in the ruling classs because, well, I rule!

I'm in upper-middle-lower-upper.. or something like that. Descriptive enough?

Americans are among the top 1% richest in the world, so it depends upon what you mean.

Compared to the world and historically, I am fucking rich. No one "poor" or "middleclass" who is 20 years old, could just sit on their ass, all year-round, except 3-quarters of the year when going to college. Nobody. The friggin' wealthy aristocrats hundreds of years ago lived the way I do. I admit, they had gigantic houses and servants... But if my parents saved money and moved to a poor country, we'd be able to live that way too. I'm also planning on taking a tour of Europe, so I can eventually move there, somewhere.

Compared to the rest of America, though, I'm middleclass. My mom's had trouble with the bills a few times... And I live in a three-story, two bedroom single-family home. My mom can't afford a car (and I don't really care enough to get a job and buy one, after all, I'm moving to Europe). She also probably couldn't afford tuition, if it wasn't for my college already being paid for. But I have cable TV and internet.

I have no idea. I do a worker job, but have uni education, I don't have high income but I do have money in the bank and never went begging, even to the state. One parent is worker, one is middle class. And the whole idea of economic classes is just a way to prevent people from seeing the conflict between them and the rulers.

Ok seriously.. I have to say lower-middle because I get support from my parents. I have grants and loans for university. I'm pretty independent though and living on my own.. I have a part time job on the way.

But my parents are in the upper 15% income bracket in the US.

Lower middle class. My parents can't afford to send me to university, so the German government pays half my fees and gives me the rest on interest free credit.

What class are you, ie. working, middle, upper class.
I refuse to be pigeon-holed. I don't belong to any class.

Well the thing with me is I'm all over the place. My mum is a single parent and we live in a bad area. Yet my grandad is the director of a company, and me and my mum live in a privatly owned detached house. I am also in private education. we used to be upper-middle class, but somehow we have slipped down the ranks. in a few years when i take over my grandads job I hope to make the company more succesful again and climb back up to upper-middle class again and have a nice car and nice house in the suburbs. if i have enough money left i may buy a holiday house abroad too.

Yeah, it depends what country you're in. In England the Upper Class are all royalty or people related to them - people with titles. Even if I were a billionaire with 5 mansions and 27 posches AND a butler called Watkins or Jenkins or Jeeves that wouldn't make me upper class because it's the sort of thing you have to be born into.

In the US, I don't know how you tell. Is it purely monetary - you have $999,999 so you're upper middle, but you have $1,000,000 so you're upper?

Also in the UK at least education comes into it - you can be a boy racer with a porsche and 20 tonnes of pure gold bling and the best burberry money can buy (to use a stereotype :rolleyes: ) but if you're not educated that's still sometimes seen as lower class (you can't really call it "working class" in that context because they don't really work).

Now I come to think about it in England it's all rather snobbish... Jolly good show :D

Somone once defined the difference between the Middle class and the working class as "the middle class can keep money in the bank without spending it, and beer in the fridge without drinking it"

By that definition, i'll always be working class.

I'm Upper middle. Ain't that a riot?

9th grade probably upper middle class

Upper middle on paper, but I would consider my family to be more just above average in the middle class.

I'd say working. We're not exactly poor, but both my parents work their asses off full-time jobs with lots of (unpaid) overtime. Perhaps petite-bougeroise then, which is still working class, if my memory still works.

Bah! it's far too confusing...get me a beer...

Level 10 magic-user

Well, I live in Sweden, so the lower class is pretty much made up of the homeless (god I love this country...everyone gets a fair share without ti being as mad as the USSR), I´m not wealthy, but I live in a four bedroom, two story building. It´s a hard call, really. One of my parents is a sanitation worker and the other works with old people, but we manage just fine. I guess we´re somewhere middle-upper middle.

I'm lower middle class. My parents are paying my apartment rent and bills and stuff until I can find a job here, but it's hurting their financial situation quite a bit.

And my college tuition is gonna be ALL loans.

It depends where I am, really. In Hong Kong, I'm in the top 1% and go to the private school. In the USA, I'm in the middle class and will qualify for Financial Aid, but I won't have to pay college off myself.

Of course, when I actually do hit college, it'll be a totally different story :D

Upper-Middle, in terms of the way I behave, though I'm not in very upper-middlish financial circumstances. :-/ Class has nothing to do with income, over here at least.

It depends where I am, really. In Hong Kong, I'm in the top 1% and go to the private school. In the USA, I'm in the middle class and will qualify for Financial Aid, but I won't have to pay college off myself.

Of course, when I actually do hit college, it'll be a totally different story :D

This has nothing to do with the thread -- I just like your screen name. "Callipygian" is a Greek-derived word that means "having lovely buttocks." So, basically, your nation's motto could esily be "NICE ASS."

I like that. Straightforward. And God help you if you're only bluffing.

Americans are among the top 1% richest in the world, so it depends upon what you mean.

Compared to the world and historically, I am fucking rich. No one "poor" or "middleclass" who is 20 years old, could just sit on their ass, all year-round, except 3-quarters of the year when going to college. Nobody. The friggin' wealthy aristocrats hundreds of years ago lived the way I do. I admit, they had gigantic houses and servants... But if my parents saved money and moved to a poor country, we'd be able to live that way too. I'm also planning on taking a tour of Europe, so I can eventually move there, somewhere.

Compared to the rest of America, though, I'm middleclass. My mom's had trouble with the bills a few times... And I live in a three-story, two bedroom single-family home. My mom can't afford a car (and I don't really care enough to get a job and buy one, after all, I'm moving to Europe). She also probably couldn't afford tuition, if it wasn't for my college already being paid for. But I have cable TV and internet.

I know. This question is difficult to size up because a person's perception of their economic status is extremely subjective. If I make $120,000 a year, but can't even afford to buy a studio apartment because I live in San Francisco, how would you classify me? What if I live in Wyoming and make $28,000 a year, but I have a 2000 square-foot house with 2 acres of land? It's a tough call.

Yeah, it depends what country you're in. In England the Upper Class are all royalty or people related to them - people with titles. Even if I were a billionaire with 5 mansions and 27 posches AND a butler called Watkins or Jenkins or Jeeves that wouldn't make me upper class because it's the sort of thing you have to be born into.

In the US, I don't know how you tell. Is it purely monetary - you have $999,999 so you're upper middle, but you have $1,000,000 so you're upper?

Also in the UK at least education comes into it - you can be a boy racer with a porsche and 20 tonnes of pure gold bling and the best burberry money can buy (to use a stereotype :rolleyes: ) but if you're not educated that's still sometimes seen as lower class (you can't really call it "working class" in that context because they don't really work).

Now I come to think about it in England it's all rather snobbish... Jolly good show :D
In America, it's a very blurry and subjective spectrum, although you could just go by our tax brackets, which organize people into different incomes. In some cases, people who appear to be "upper class," are really just middle class Americans who have run up massive credit card debt. Or vice-versa... People are appear to be middle class are just upper class Americans who have run up credit card debt, and are actually attempting to pay it.

Oh, and like I and others have said before... It really, really, really depends on which country you live in. One co-worker of mine at Wal-Mart used to live in a gigantic house in the Middle East and had servants. But because he didn't like the religious and political oppression, he moved to the United States. So, in the middle east, he lived the life of a king. In the United States, he was a Wal-Mart employee.

wow, no uppers, maybe they think they are too good for us?

wow, no uppers, maybe they think they are too good for us?
They had their middle class servants vote in the poll for them.

I'm about as middle class as midclass gets. :D

wow, no uppers, maybe they think they are too good for us?
They’re out making money. :p

Anyway, I was born lower-Middle but now live comfortably in the Upper-Middle category. Though if my plans for the future remain the same, I shall probably be middle class.

In America everyone considers themselves middle class. Doesn't calling yourself "upper class" sound pretty snooty anyway?

I'd say middle to upper-middle.

What class are you
Bard, level 8.

What Class are You?.

I am Landed Gentry with just a hint of Nouveau Riche.

Used to vary a lot... I was born into an Upper Class family, when my mother left my father we became Lower Middle Class, now things have picked up again, I've got my own place and a good job, making me Upper Middle Class, I guess.

Upper.

Sound Snooty?
Don't care, it's the truth.

lower-middle trailer trash from Iowa(but in no way a conservative,damn stereotypes)but I can't help it I'm only 14 and my dad is a dropout but he tries damn hard

Middle I would think. It's perhaps something that's easier for others to judge, rather than yourself.

What class are you.


24th level Cleric.

Sorry to be a biter but I had to make it a hat trick.

In America, it's a very blurry and subjective spectrum, although you could just go by our tax brackets, which organize people into different incomes. In some cases, people who appear to be "upper class," are really just middle class Americans who have run up massive credit card debt. Or vice-versa... People are appear to be middle class are just upper class Americans who have run up credit card debt, and are actually attempting to pay it.

Oh, and like I and others have said before... It really, really, really depends on which country you live in. One co-worker of mine at Wal-Mart used to live in a gigantic house in the Middle East and had servants. But because he didn't like the religious and political oppression, he moved to the United States. So, in the middle east, he lived the life of a king. In the United States, he was a Wal-Mart employee.As an American, I just go by how big my house is.

Two-story, five bedrooms. It's pretty standard. Almost upper middle, but my parents don't make that kinda money.