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> we were living the sort of middle class-ish lifestyle where we could afford multiple foreign holidays a year.

That's an upper class thing to me. Am I poor ? Or are the class definitions too vague ?

Inter European travel is quite cheap so considering the author is based in the UK, this is middle class.

I'm european and don't find inter european travel cheap. I guess I'm poor :-)

Maybe yes but also maybe not. Intra-european travel can be cheap but it can also be expensive. You can take a Ryanair flight and a local train to stay somewhere cheap for a couple days. But you can also take a expensive Lufthansa flight to stay in a big city where costs can be similar or higher to where where you are. It will always depend of where you are and where you'd like to go to.

My impression is that nowadays the UK has more cheap flight options than the rest of Europe and that trains aren't as cheap as they used to be a decade ago.

British class definitions are not at all the same as American ones. At least as traditionally defined, upper class pretty much meant you were in the titled aristocracy.

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