Oh dear, difficult to say. Talking about money is so embarrassing.

Because I live in an expensive and quite affluent area, so while I have a very high standard of living the money doesn't go anywhere near as far as it would in other places.

Our house is big, but my parents are still paying the morgage. We have two cars, private health insurance through my dad's job (bear in mind I live in the UK where we have the NHS so this is unusual), we go on holiday twice a year, I went to private school and we have a cleaner.

So we're well off.

But growing up me and my siblings didn't get lots of things bought for us and we didn't get pocket money. But we did get to do things like piano lessons and dancing and all that.

I'm not that sure about my parents' finances (you just don't ask what people earn). Money goes very quicky on morgage, pensions, bills and food ect. We don't have lots and lots of money floating around and I think we do have some debt (as well as the morgage), but to be honest I don't really know. My dad works in the City and my mum has a part time job that pays quite well (again I don't know how much). My dad's annual bonus is more than my mum earns in a year.
If my dad had stayed on at Merrill Lynch we'd have been much, much richer, but then dad would probably have had some sort of breakdown because he hated it there.

Although having a very nice lifestyle makes me feel quite squeamish I do want to point out my dad works very, very long hours and he works very hard. I get it all handed to me on a plate, but he didn't.

Personally I really cheap, let's call it thrifty. For everything I spend I do the calculation of how long it would take me to earn the money I'm using. This is a very depressing bit of maths. Getting things cheaply makes me happier than being able to squander money on luxuries would. And every week I transfer part of my wages into my savings account.

But to keep living to the standard I'm accustomed I'll need a very well paying job when I'm older. Also the idea of debt terrifies me.

But after all that I'm not upper middle class. Class here is as much about background and opinions and location and lifestyle as it is about income.
In America you'd call what I am upper middle class. But it's not what I'd call it- that's the box I ticked though on the poll though.

Money, ah?

Well... we live in a large, very well-appointed apartment, in one of the 'two best' zones in the city, with a maid (who sleeps in the apartment) and another coming in in the mornings. Both of my parents come from old families, so, following tradition, I got the luxury of having a trust-fund, and a nice and neat card I can use at leisure.

We have a couple apartments in other places in the world, and one car per person, we travel (or I do, at least, my parents like to stay home) every vacation, I'm going into 5-year university here, following up with another career (other 4 years) in the US or the UK. Of course, I'll need to get a very good job in the future (like when I'm....30?) to be able to keep my life as it is, so that is a little scary (what if I turn out to be a bad lawyer?!).

So, I marked 'rich' because of that, and because I am exposed to lots of luxuries, total economic freedom, and because my parents spoil me a lot, independently of what that spoiling may cost. Oh, I also have some stocks, and they are giving me a nice little profit, but it's more like me playing with stocks than anything serious.

" . . . The sun does not shine upon this fair earth to meet frowning eyes, depend upon it." Charles Dickens

it depends. in my area, I'm an average middle to upper middle class citizen. but, anywhere outside California, and you could probably buy each person in my family a decent sized house for the price my little 4 bed, 2.5 bathroom one story house would go for here.