before you. You may think you are middle class now, but you are most assuredly not. You are what your great-grandfather was. The only time your family will change its class will be when one buys his way into the upper echelons - then 3 or 4 generations on, you will become upper class.
Recent arrivals simply have no stake in this system.
Hampstead?
Finchley. It's Finchley, mate.
Though the cache that N4 might have nowadays wasn't what it was when it had its own gang signs either.
Upper working/lower middle class, in other words.
How the English would have laughed at the idea that they were of any class!
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