Am I so middle class?

Who needs an authoritarian Chinese-style One Child policy when we do it quite voluntarily?

I've been called posh for pronouncing Ts. Then people make disparates between working and middle class. For instance I live in the end of a small terrace, of about four or five houses, so it's kind of spacious but also snug. We cook meals, family (whether dad and stepmum or if I'm at my mum and her bf's) has always had two cars. Actually we've had three cars at one point.

I've gone to university. But we don't have jobs that earn over 20,000 each.

So it's all kind of confusing as to whether I'm working or middle class. Sometimes I'm both. Sometimes I feel it's to do with attitude, so for instance I could be working class but we have an attitude which allows us to get along with people in larger houses (including the local millionaire).

But the things like low job income and the terraced house feels working class.

That said, I'm an only child so I can be spoiled easier so that probably gave me a 'middle class' childhood.

We didn't always live in a terrace, we were in quite a nice house before parents divorced. Mum ended up going into a bungalow with her bf and upgraded it, i.e. building a garage with attic at the bottom of the garden and turned the attic into more house space.

When did I say we did?

So many people end up 'moving down' when they are kids because of parental splits. I was lucky as a kid in that both of my parents earned well, so that when they split, we children did not notice a huge difference materially, but it's terribly common now for moves to lower quality homes, etc, to follow divorce/separation.

It used to puzzle me when I was quite young and people would see my Dad's house and say "oh my God, you're freaking rich!" and it was like, duh, that's not where we live! Now I see what they meant.

You didn't. I was engaged in general chit-chat.

So many people end up 'moving down' when they are kids because of parental splits. I was lucky as a kid in that both of my parents earned well, so that when they split, we children did not notice a huge difference materially, but it's terribly common now for moves to lower quality homes, etc, to follow divorce/separation.

It used to puzzle me when I was quite young and people would see my Dad's house and say "oh my God, you're freaking rich!" and it was like, duh, that's not where we live! Now I see what they meant.