In corner shops middle-class locals were stocking up on water and – bizarrely – pet food.
The contest in Karachi has been called a clash between the "burgers" and the "bun kebabs," between the Westernized youth and middle-class locals.
The restaurant is a favourite for middle-class locals who want a relaxing lunch with decent Tunisian wine (go for the white) and it makes a good break from the souk.
The prime minister is chairing a cabinet committee which is looking at development proposals east of London, along the Thames estuary (unlike the other target areas, this has both a large number of derelict sites, and few noisy middle-class locals).Secondly, the chancellor, Gordon Brown, wants to cool Britain's overheated housing market.
Many of the working- and middle-class locals in Jackson have similar stories, of feeling so drawn to the place that they did whatever it took to make it their home.
Unnerved, the authorities began persecuting the opposition.Kazakhstan's economy is in better shape than those in the other ex-Soviet republics of Central Asia, and the country now also has a substantial middle class (by local standards).
Soweto is now one of the most popular destinations in all of South Africa, boasting a population of four million people living in a diverse landscape of Mandela estates, middle class neighborhoods, local shops and stadiums.
We at UnitedNY, along with others, are urging the State Legislature to let high-cost areas around the state lift fast food, airport, car wash and other low-wage workers out of poverty and into the middle class through local wage authorization.
Refocusing Sure Start on the poorest means the middle class might lose local nurseries.
A self-sustaining middle class frees up local support mechanisms for people who would struggle anywhere they lived.
"The growing wealth gap is threatening the middle class," says a local economist.Elections due this year are sure to be tightly controlled.
