Same, but I voted middle class.
I picked other. I live in a very low rent, fairly run down apartment that is one of 5 built in 1930. But my small complex is located right downtown, where condos can run up to $350K a block away, and my nearest neighbors are all businesses and law offices.
I was confused by the McMansion pic and the Upper Middle Class pic. I went to wiki for help and here’s what they had to say…
“Starting in the 1980s, the McMansion concept was intended to fill a gap between the modest suburban tract home and the upscale custom homes found in ***gated, waterfront, or golf course ***communities.” [Bolding mine].
I live in a waterfront, golf course community, but an old one (with older houses). Is it a McMansion? I couldn’t tell, so I chose Upper Middle Class.
Rand Rover!
I kind of like how college and military dorm were lumped in with prison dwellings. Sure felt like prison to me.
I live in what appears to be an average middle-class house, but it would sell for upper-middle price; Arlington has about a 90k average per capita income and $600 average home price; that’s middle class here, but it’s upper-middle money in other parts of the country.
The results as they stand right now form an almost perfect bell curve (not counting the “other” category).
I had trouble determining if I live in option 4: "definitely low-rent, but is not a ghetto ", or option 3: “ghetto”. I think it’s really closer to #3, but since my neighborhood is a mix of the “very lowest-class in this metro area” and the “plain 'ol low-class”, I went ahead and chose option 4.
Any interest in a country poll? What’s the maximum # of choices again?
I picked “average”. It sure doens’t look like what your pictures look like, though.
It’s an appartment similar to the bottom half of the middle house in this picture - about 64 square meters - 700 square feet and a smallish garden. Which is typical in my neighbourhood - populated with mostly new couples, some students etc. It’s definitely not “low rent”, because it’s all home owners with very little renting.
Those american houses are fucking huge!
I don’t know. I went with “definitely low-rent but not a ghetto”. I live in an upper-middle class Big Ten school town that doesn’t really have any bad areas (those are all in the neighboring town), but the area directly around my apartment complex isn’t really fantastic. It’s not bad, though - I’m really really close to the university’s medical school and most of the people in my complex are med students or work for the hospital in some way.
But it is kind of low-rent. I mean, that’s why I live here. I’m a grad student, and poor. I could live a little closer to school in the student ghetto, which has more character, but I’d have to pay more and I’d be subject to more drunken idiots running around the streets the nights before football games. It’s a trade-off.
Fess up! Who picked mansion? - And we need pics 
I went for option 5 too. Our area isn’t “low rent” as in, it’s not the poorest most deprived housing area here, but it’s not the best either. For the UK, we have some larger family homes than other areas but at the same time, a lot of these are rented out or have been converted into flats. The street where I live has 2-bed terraced houses at one end, then at the other end there are larger semi-detached houses. We have the only detached property on the street. So I’m not sure where that puts us, but 5 seemed the most accurate.
My family (parents + younger brothers + dog) live in a place I’d say is slightly smaller than #6 but certainly not the design. They worked 75+ hours a week, they deserve it.
Someone upthread suggested Rand Rover (a real Doper), but I don’t know if that’s a joke or if he/she really is loaded.
I should have read the instructions first. I opted for “middle class”…which is about what all my neighbors are and the area is chock full of “sort of” cookie cutter homes.
However, most homes here do have in-ground swimming pools (which we also have) but that is kind of normal for here in Las Vegas - especially in homes built about 10 years ago. This might mean my neighborhood would be more upper middle class? However, back then, adding a pool to your new house cost about the same as buying a small, new car to the overall price - so over a typical 30 year mortgage, this added about $50/month to the cost of our house. And considering the weather in Las Vegas, adding a pool was not some crazy 2 months out of the year luxury - it is something we use almost 6 months out of the year.
I live in an area with some of the strongest rent control in the country and a lot of social service support, yet with a great deal of average education and affluence. Moreover I live in a semi-transitional area. As a result my neighborhood runs the gamut from the truly dirt poor to senior corporate executives. On the same block.
I find it very interesting.