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da_moler · Joined: 11 Nov 2006

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eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

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cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

Julius · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

hwa jang shil · Joined: 20 Oct 2009

Nandos, European weekend getaways, no mosquitos, Chris Morris lives there, people are allowed to have hobbies/interests that are not beneficial to their health or intelligence.

I still prefer living here though.

Julius · Joined: 27 Jul 2006

Mariella713 · Joined: 22 May 2010

I love London. I lived in South London since I was 11 and seriously, I can't believe how many people take living in a place like London for granted. It's one of the best cities in the world. All the people on here who whine seem to come from areas full of white chavs or something. If you're a happy and friendly person, people will be friendly back to you, simple as. Stop being such a misery and get a life.

soupsandwich · Joined: 20 May 2011

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

joyorbison · Joined: 06 Dec 2009

Hating chavs is the most classist hobby out there. Americans ask what are chavs sometimes and British people are like "Well... erm... they are just horrible... erm... they dress like sh!t... erm... they attack people." The real answer though is that chav's = poor people. British people hate to admit that.

joyorbison · Joined: 06 Dec 2009

edwardcatflap · Joined: 22 Mar 2009

I'd be very surprised if there were any working class British people contributing to Daves ESL cafe as you need a degree to work in Korea for starters and a wide enough perspective to know that teaching English abroad would even be a possibility. There may be people with working class backgrounds on here who like to assert their identity by playing up their humble tastes and interests but this is something people primarily do in and just after university when these things seem important.

As they get older, intelligent people, and presumably you must have a degree of intelliegence even these days to go to university, will naturally gravitate towards the middle class way of looking at things. Ie planning for the future, putting money aside instead of spending it all in the pub on a friday night, thinking about their kids' education, eating the kind of food that won't give you a heart attack in your fifties etc... etc...There may still be a few cultural elements that divide the classes, such as the newspaper you read, the tv programmes you watch the live entertainment you like but the gap is getting narrower all the time as the loftier examples of these have shown a tendency to dumb down. As many social commentators have warned, however the gap between the underclass and people with jobs is getting bigger and bigger with more and more families having several generations of unemployed. It'll be interesting to see how the new government's policy on benefit dependency will affect this underclass in years to come.

cj1976 · Joined: 26 Oct 2005

The irony is that despite the class-conscious nature of the British, most people could not define what each class is. Is it your job, your education, income, hobbies and interests, or where you live that make you working/middle/upper class etc?
I have no idea where I belong on the spectrum. I grew up piss poor and now I'm still fairly poor, but I have a degree. I don't really want to waste time pigeon-holing people, so it's annoying when you meet new people in England and one of the first questions they ask will most likely be, "What do you do?"