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View Poll Results: What class are you?
Elite
30.67%
Established Middle Class
34.67%
Technical Middle Class
17.33%
New Affluent Workers
2.67%
Emergent Service Workers
6.67%
Traditional Working Class
6.67%
Precariat
1.33%
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What class are you? ;)

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Old Apr 5th 2013 | 6:33 am
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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.
 
Old Apr 5th 2013 | 7:00 am
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Originally Posted by FirstRatofftheShipUK
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.
For hot dogs and hamburgers?
 
Old Apr 5th 2013 | 7:38 am
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Originally Posted by FirstRatofftheShipUK
I am Canadian therefore I do not fit into a 'class'.
Ah, you're "Foreigner" class... that's the lowest of them all.
 
Old Apr 5th 2013 | 9:37 am
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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.
 
Old Apr 5th 2013 | 10:25 am
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Originally Posted by FirstRatofftheShipUK
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.
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.
 
Old Apr 5th 2013 | 10:32 am
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Originally Posted by MikeUK
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................
Not really, it's all about how you hold your knife and fork, your use of language, and how your house is furnished.
 
Old Apr 5th 2013 | 10:36 am
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So what do Canadians boast about ?
 
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Originally Posted by Shard
So what do Canadians boast about ?
They live next to the US and few even know some of them.
 
Old Apr 5th 2013 | 10:44 am
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Originally Posted by Shard
So what do Canadians boast about ?
Being Canadian mainly.
 
Old Apr 5th 2013 | 11:08 am
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Default Re: What class are you? ;)

Elite...not bloody likely.
 
Old Apr 5th 2013 | 11:35 am
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Originally Posted by Steve_P
Elite...not bloody likely.
Superb photos in your web-album!
 
Old Apr 5th 2013 | 12:11 pm
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Originally Posted by Shard
Superb photos in your web-album!
Thank you kind sir.
 
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Default 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%
 
Old Apr 6th 2013 | 2:37 am
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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.
 
Old Apr 6th 2013 | 2:46 am
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Default Re: What class are you? ;)

Originally Posted by MillieF
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 absolutely agree with you.

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.
 


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