[alexander_busek]

I read that in England, they have seven “classes”. The highest class is the “elite” class. They are defined by their having something like 140k pounds of wealth. That’s what upper middle class used to be — a nice house and a nest egg. The Elite are only 6% of the English population.

Are you sure about your figures? £140,000 in assets (vulgo: wealth) is really not very much.

Or did you perhaps mean to say annual income?

On the other hand, £140,000 in assets is consistent with your statement about that corresponding to "[...] what upper middle class used to be — a nice house and a nest egg."

Based on data from the HMRC for 2004–2005, about 10% of all households in the U.K. had assets amounting to at least £176,221.

Regards,

[Born to Conserve]

“...Or did you perhaps mean to say...”

I pretty much said what I meant to say. Did you mean to do a better job of searching the web than you did before you question what I said?