LOL! Love it. Parents: Middle middle class; retired, and have never been real happy due to their constant fighting . Me & my family: lower middle class, pretty happy and close. (23 yrs married, 4 kids etc.) Brother: upper middle class, but unhappy. He can't stand his wife and works all the time, and she can't stand him and works all the time.

I am very poor but not impoverished because I AM living in an apartment, eating, and working, albeit short hours not by my wishing. I am on the lower end of "poor" because of what the economy has done to me and could be homeless with one more somewhat expensive illness of either Keysha or I. One expensive life-saving drug and we are homeless. My family in Romania had it MUCH worse than I do despite their being in the upper caste of Roma society. Well off for Roma, however, is much different than well off for Gadje. Today it is MUCH worse for them over there... all Roma. "Much" is an understatement. My Gadje grandfather (Gadje = "non-Gypsy") was pretty well off so that side of the family was financially pretty good but he had to fight to keep my grandmother safe as well as my father and he had it hard for marrying Roma. My grandmother was from the upper caste of her Clan but had been cast out due to marrying Gadje so no help from that side. That was my paternal lineage. My mother's side was in the upper caste of their Clan as well. However, despite not being in the poorest of the poor, things were so bad over there that they escaped Communist Romania so I could have a decent life. That indicates what it was like. Upon getting to Canada (later America for my father and I, mother died birthing me) my parents made it into the middle class to upper middle class. I was solidly middle class (with a few blips) until Life intervened and I am now in this situation due to the economic deterioration. However, I would stay exactly where I am now rather than live in Romania. I may piss and moan about how things are going for me but I am extremely grateful, every day, that I am not living THERE. I thank the Gods every day that I am living in America as things deteriorate to unbelievable levels in Europe for us.

My husband and I are upper class. I think it sounds rather crass saying "rich" or "well off". You can be well off and have no money at all. My parents are middle class, as were their parents.

finacially, no way. i guess in some other way i could be moderately well off, for example with friends and family

Financially ok, romantically bankrupt

Yes. I am not hungry and I have a home.

I don't care about the technicalities, I have a roof, plenty of food, even if sometimes I have to stretch it or eat things I don't like so much; at least I'm fed. I also have a boyfriend who helps me with this when it gets too rough. I don't have a job, so I have all this spare time that some slave over in Rwanda or somewhere doesn't get because he's too busy being mistreated during his 70 hour work weeks. I think I pretty much live like a middle class person, even though I'm technically low class. I'm good at pretending I'm not poor lol. My parents were both poor though, and both alcoholics, but my grandmother is doing rather well, but when my dad was a kid, they were poor, and way worse off than I. My entire family lineage, from what I know though, were all farmers, and a few sailors, not the richest people ever. Not the poorest either, but whatever lol.

First I will answer the question as it is put. We are financially middle class. Now I will expand on it, I think it is a matter of perspective. There are those in this world who would consider anyone who can answer this question on their own computer with their own internet sevice as rich, as they can obviously afford such things. I think my children might answer this question as poor, as we do not have nearly as nice a home as many of their friends, nor as nice an automobile as most of their friends. Our home is 30 years old, and nothing fancy, our automobiles are 9 and 10 years old, but paid for. To have a home with air conditioning, heating, refrigeration for food, television, internet service, etc. would make us very rich in the eyes of many in this world, not poor as some might see it who have much more. If I did a balance sheet of all debt vs all assets it would come out very close to zero. Some would call that poor, however we can pay our bills, have plenty of food to eat, are able to go to the theatre to see movies ocassionally, and even go out to a restaurant from time to time, some would call that rich. I have a good job and can provide for my family. We are happy and have no life-threatening health problems. In this way I feel rich, but financially, by the current definitions in the U.S. we would be considered middle class.

Sometimes No Class and sometimes First Class but always rich. I have God's love. I have been homeless and I have owned a home that sells for over $1 million today. I live in a wonderful home today. Think about it. You have to be extremely poor not to live better than kings of old. We have heat, electricity, telephone, computer, food, clothing. We do not appreciate how much we have. Especially, if we compare ourselves to someone just 100 years ago. Anyhow, I'm rich. I have a FANTASTIC wife. I have food, clothes, and a roof over my head. What more could one ask?

middle class= average

Working class, that means that I, like the rest of the American working class, am one paycheck away from losing it all

Working class covers all.

I would consider myself upper-middle class, is that what you're calling "well off"? I would consider most of the rest of my family middle class.