I had a similar experience, I went to college in South Dublin, as someone who grew up down the country (but spent my summers in Dublin city centre, they didn't know this), I was pretty much instantly pegged as a bogtrotter. These kids just basically assumed we barely had electricity and I surely spent my teens leaping between hay bales, etc (I was in a heavy metal band). Another huge difference was I'd had a job since I was 14, and they had never so much as considered getting a part time job - they had everything they wanted bought for them. I very quickly made other friends outside the course, because the gang I was stuck in classes with was just unbelievably snobby, not just towards me, but working class Dubs too. Anyway, I got the last laugh. When the recession hit, these kids had no coping skills and no job experience. I clung on working in a shop, did a masters and then got a decent career off the back of it. A lot of the snobs I went to college with are still "freelancing" and trying to get "creative" careers off the ground (there ain't a creative hair on their heads) - in other words, they're living at home still leeching off their parents well into their 30s. Basically everyone in that course who made anything of themselves was NOT a spoiled brat from South Dublin.