I'll pre face this by explaining, I come from a very very working class background, I am the first in my family to go to University and that's The Open University. I have a girlfriend for ages now that comes from a very very very middle class family and it's always interesting when getting to know them you hear something and realise how different things were growing up. I'll just list a few here.
Not actually having any support at school from home. I really believe this played a huge role in me doing poorly at school, simply because it 'is what it is' nobody was really interested in anything I did in or outside school, I was suspended, put in isolation etc but don't remember ever being told it was wrong at home. I've never had anyone from my family watch me play football or anything like that. Never really had any encouragement. In comparison to my girlfriend who has had huge support through her schooling years and on all of her hobbies etc and she has been hugely successful with her education.
Hand me down clothes or charity shop clothes. It actually bewildered me when I first learned my girlfriends mum talk about clothes shopping for 'fun' I had never considered I would ever earn enough to simply buy something because I wanted to.
Holidays are a big thing as I well, I only went on maybe one or two holidays to Europe while growing up with my grandparents because they could afford it. Everything else was the odd trip to Ingoldmells. I think it threw my girlfriends family when we first met and the subject came up I don't think they could believe I had never traveled outside Europe and to Spain twice. They have been to Florida, Mexico, New York etc.
Rent free home life, I moved out of my mum's house when I was 16 because of personal conflicts etc and have always worked since then and paid bills, my girlfriend lives at home rent free and gets her Uni money. I really dislike it when she and her friends at university complain about having no money because they do, they don't actually understand what having 'no money' is. No money to to me is not having enough to top up the electric cards. No money to them is to not afford new clothes or going out etc.
The expectation of money when turning 18. My mum put me £100 into a post office account when I was born and she promptly spent it on Vodka and bills when I was about 13. All of my girlfriends friends and her were given gifts of money to buy a car or put towards a house. I've never even gotten pocket money.
Birthdays, Weddings and stuff like baby showers, this is another big one. It wasn't uncommon for me to get £20 or a couple of presents for Christmas and birthdays, my mum got married in a registry office because she couldn't afford anything else in comparison when my girlfriend turned 16, 18 and 21 collectivity her parents spent around £1000 each time. This causes a bit of conflict actually, mainly because I am expected to buy a lot of presents for her family but I simply don't have the money to spend £20-50 on presents every month or go to a house party they're hosting. I've made it clear I don't value spending thousands on birthday parties and cards etc but they don't see that.
Money is actually a very big problem as we actually have massively different world views on it. I never spend on anything unnecessary now, but for her family money is something you use for leisure and mine is for living. I can't justify paying £80 for a pair of trainers etc or buying sandwiches from the COOP.
Work ethic is a huge one as well, I work like 55-60 hours a week to live okay, 40 and I couldn't do it. I hear her friends and and complain about having to get up at 08:00 to work for 4 hours and for me it frustrates me because I wish I could do that. I've literally always worked and I think it moulds you into a 'just get on with it' attitude where as for them that will come later in life. Her family, I don't think understand what working 55-60 hour weeks does to your mind and body and how tired it makes you. I've been moaned at for going bed so early but it's because I have to be up at 5:00 for work. It's a cause of frustration and I can't simply 'get a new job' or take a sick day because we don't get paid for it etc.
Last thing I promise, I believe growing up in a single parent house hold with a mother that doesn't get on with the dad really really messes your brain up developer. I literally believed until I met my girlfriends family that nobody has a happy relationship and it always ends up in divorce.
I do really get frustrated on Reddit when it comes to certain subjects because people just say things to you like go travel, just move or find a new job etc and for me it's just not a thing I have ever considered because I can't afford it. I'm not a young 'professional' I'm a low skilled working class person and I feel alienated.
BUT the money I earn is more than I could of ever dreamed of and that's fine. (£26K with overtime).
It does sound like I am bitter about my girlfriends family but I'm not, I'm glad they didn't have to go through the crap I've been through because as a person it's really really warped my view of life. I use her and her family as comparison because it's an easy one for me to make.