View Poll Results: What class are you?
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What class are you? ;)
Apr 5th 2013, 6:33 am
#61
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Re: What class are you? ;)
I am Canadian therefore I do not fit into a 'class'.
Although I have more $ and edumacation than my neighbours, I still go to their BBQs.
Although I have more $ and edumacation than my neighbours, I still go to their BBQs.
Apr 5th 2013, 7:38 am
#63
Lowering the tone
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Apr 5th 2013, 9:37 am
#64
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Re: What class are you? ;)
Emergent Service workers
I played with it to see what made the difference and it was because we are renting. With owning a house here in our price range we will be Established Middle Class.
Established Middle Class - Back Home earning and saving less money but owning our old house.
Obviously I will answer based on current results.
I played with it to see what made the difference and it was because we are renting. With owning a house here in our price range we will be Established Middle Class.
Established Middle Class - Back Home earning and saving less money but owning our old house.
Obviously I will answer based on current results.
Apr 5th 2013, 10:25 am
#65
Joined: Aug 2005
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Re: What class are you? ;)
I agree with you here. Boasting about education and social standing isn't very Canadian. For instance I still hang out with my neighbours even though I, too, am quite a bit richer and more educated than them.
Apr 5th 2013, 10:32 am
#66
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Re: What class are you? ;)
Technical Middle class if I convert CAD to UK£ at current exchange
Elite if I just put in CAD
and when I'm dead honest and admit I don't bother socialising at all and those people I do chose to reluctantly speak to are really my wife friends, and they didn't list any of the thing i like to do and so I put nothing in social and nothing in cultural I still got Technical middle class
English class is all about the money................
Elite if I just put in CAD
and when I'm dead honest and admit I don't bother socialising at all and those people I do chose to reluctantly speak to are really my wife friends, and they didn't list any of the thing i like to do and so I put nothing in social and nothing in cultural I still got Technical middle class
English class is all about the money................
Apr 5th 2013, 10:36 am
#67
me/moi
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Re: What class are you? ;)
So what do Canadians boast about ?
Apr 5th 2013, 11:08 am
#70
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Re: What class are you? ;)
Elite...not bloody likely. 
Apr 5th 2013, 12:40 pm
#73
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Re: What class are you? ;)
Result: the class group you most closely match is:
Precariat
This is the poorest and most deprived class group. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:
Tend to mix socially with people like themselves
Come from a working class background
Rent their home - over 80%
Precariat
This is the poorest and most deprived class group. According to the Great British Class Survey results, lots of people in this group:
Tend to mix socially with people like themselves
Come from a working class background
Rent their home - over 80%
Apr 6th 2013, 2:37 am
#74
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Re: What class are you? ;)
This is a bloody odd survey, I much preferred Woolsties take on it. Surely there should have been some kind of age question too, some bright spark who is staying a home to take care of a couple of kids, due to horrific child care costs is going to do worse than some old fart who has built up a fair bit of equity in housing over the years, but is hardly reflective of future potential. I wouldn't say it's got anything to do with 'class' whatever that might be. In the close of ten houses where I now live, we have four professors, three teachers one MD and a paediatrician and archivist...and us! Where I moved from I doubt they could have collectively counted to twenty without removal of socks.
Apr 6th 2013, 2:46 am
#75
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Re: What class are you? ;)
This is a bloody odd survey, I much preferred Woolsties take on it. Surely there should have been some kind of age question too, some bright spark who is staying a home to take care of a couple of kids, due to horrific child care costs is going to do worse than some old fart who has built up a fair bit of equity in housing over the years, but is hardly reflective of future potential.
I would be that old fart. House paid for, savings in the bank and retired on a decent not great pension, some friends in the appropriate groups and the survey says...Elite.
