I think it's more related to what preoccupies a person.
If you're constantly worried about money, crime and disease you're middle class.

If you're worried about yourself because those things are all around where you live, you're probably poverty stricken.

If you don't give a flying fuck about anything at all and do whatever you want and get away with it without the slightest problems, you're upper class.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:05, 3 replies)

Cor!
I seem to have become upper class without noticing. Go me!
(davywavy, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:06, closed)

I say!
well done. Let's go shoot some proles.
( Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:08, closed)

Quite so, old bean.
What what.
( 100% Cock Raw like carrots., Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:12, closed)

I say, me too
pip pip!
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:15, closed)

Ah, the difference between owning a Banksy,
queuing for 3 hours to see the Banksy exhibtion, or living in Stokes Croft with a Banksy on your gable wall.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 14:07, closed)

True true...
Although alot of the people who live in Stokes Croft are the worst of this type - This pointless no Tesco fiasco being a perfect example..
(Burt Burt, Tue 6 Apr 2010, 13:38, closed)

What if you're somewhere in the middle ground between garden suburbs and council estates?
I'm from a small mining town; while it was hardly Chelsea, it was quiet and generally crime-free, bar the odd post-pub fight on a Saturday. The gap between rich and poor there is nowhere near as great as it is in a city, so the gaps between social divisions are less clear. Apart from the handful of thieving cunts and vandals, they're scumbags.
( The Mock TurtIe ™ --- Thinks you are a cunt, on, Thu 1 Apr 2010, 18:33, closed)