Comment by welshguy

Similar story here. South Wales steel town -> Oxford (Engineering Science). Late 1970s. I'm certainly wealthier than my parents and home town peers (you can still - easily - buy a reasonable 4 bedroom house there for 100K) but the baggage is still a burden. To misquote a popular aphorism: You can take a man out of the poverty, but you can never take the poverty out of a man.