Rich offspring - arrogant

I attend a university in Southern England, and as you can imagine there are a lot of (not majority) students here who come from a wealthy background.

There is definitely a small minority of these students who think that the world owes them everything. They have absolutely no manners; I have lost count of the number of times I've been walked into by one of these people or when they have walked into the store and skipped the line. They don't seem to have any sort of respect for normal people AT ALL.

Yes, their parents are wealthy but they are NOTHING, they don't have any valuable skills or a career. I don't understand why these kids think that they are the 'bees nees' so to speak, they do not have any extra skills that other people wouldn't have so why do they think that they deserve to be treated like royalty?

Coming from Northern Ireland, I haven't really had any dealings with people from a wealthy background but I must admit that I didn't expect these kids to act so entitled. I assumed that their parents money would've given them experiences that would've mellowed them out. I guess not.

Also coming from NI and while I am in Scotland, yeah, there is some rich kids here at uni who I just don't want to give the time of day really.

As I said in my starting post, they are nothing! Once they are out in the world of work without their parents support, they will not be able to sustain to their current lifestyle.

To be honest, I don't even care how much money they have. It's the fact that they think that they are entitled to walk over the top of people just because they've got money.

I really don't understand why Southern England is associated with being rich and Northern England is with being poor. You get really affluent parts of Manchester, it just seems too mixed to make such broad judgements.

Alex that hasn't been my experience. These people are a different kind of 'stuck up'. Normal people don't act like the world owes them something.

I attend a university in Southern England, and as you can imagine there are a lot of (not majority) students here who come from a wealthy background.

There is definitely a small minority of these students who think that the world owes them everything. They have absolutely no manners; I have lost count of the number of times I've been walked into by one of these people or when they have walked into the store and skipped the line. They don't seem to have any sort of respect for normal people AT ALL.

Yes, their parents are wealthy but they are NOTHING, they don't have any valuable skills or a career. I don't understand why these kids think that they are the 'bees nees' so to speak, they do not have any extra skills that other people wouldn't have so why do they think that they deserve to be treated like royalty?

Coming from Northern Ireland, I haven't really had any dealings with people from a wealthy background but I must admit that I didn't expect these kids to act so entitled. I assumed that their parents money would've given them experiences that would've mellowed them out. I guess not.

Have you walked around Kensington? And have you also walked around Bristol? lol.

Yes and No.

Kensington specifically is a wealthy part of London and even then not everyone living there lives in an amazing 5 story townhouse, but if you go to parts like Tower Hamlets, Barking and Southwark it's disgusting and whilst Bristol is known for being deprived you will still get millionaires living there.


I do agree that people who think having wealthy parents is a credential to be proud of are jackasses, but people who think that the part of the country they live in actually defines how wealthy they are usually lower-middle class wannabees like that blue collar Tory girl on Question Time.

Really? I've never known someone to define their class via where they live. I'm pretty sure class is defined by you're household income.

Yes and No.

Kensington specifically is a wealthy part of London and even then not everyone living there lives in an amazing 5 story townhouse, but if you go to parts like Tower Hamlets, Barking and Southwark it's disgusting and whilst Bristol is known for being deprived you will still get millionaires living there.


I do agree that people who think having wealthy parents is a credential to be proud of are jackasses, but people who think that the part of the country they live in actually defines how wealthy they are usually lower-middle class wannabees like that blue collar Tory girl on Question Time.

ye my sister is one of those wannabes and lives in Kensington working for some law firm in London. Always goes on about how she feels poor because of how expensively dressed everyone walking around there is rofl.

Would hate to be living that lifestyle.

Yeah, Kensington, at least in terms of street life, is actually much more mixed than some suburban posh places because it's cosmopolitan and because of all that goes on there. If you go out to Richmond or Esher or nice parts of Berkshire you will get far more uniform upmarket people than in Ken. I don't know Bristol well, but Clifton is very posh and has a 'London' feel to it. I live in Tower Hamlets and it's more mixed than you think (it depends on the precise part) and I don't think the word 'disgusting' is very nice about it, the people do their best and there are a lot of good people struggling to do well here as well as some nastiness.Thinking you are really something because you were brought up in a wealthy home is one of those things that I think most people from that background go through at times but tend to grow out of or adopt a more reasoned approach to. You can't go around your whole life with a superior attitude and have an enjoyable life, although some people manage to at least try to keep it up.