Some personal finance bloggers and commentors have been talking about the NY Times class calculator. It splits you into a specific class (bottom fifth, lower middle, middle, upper middle, top fifth) based on occupation, education, income and wealth.
Any true Englishman knows class well. It was George Orwell who stated that “England is the most class-ridden [...]
I am a very independent person and always have been. I prefer to do things by myself, without any help thank you very much. A lot of the time this extends to money. I prefer to find information out myself and understand what’s going on rather than hire an expert to do it for me. [...]
A friend of mine was telling me how her younger sister had opened a credit
card without telling her boyfriend (who she lives with) and had the bills
sent to their parents house. When my friend found out, she lent her sister
enough money to pay off the credit card and insisted on confiscating and
destroying the said credit [...]