I went to an expensive school with sometimes-tense "townie" relations. I tended to empathize more with the town folks, honestly, which was probably a class thi

I went to an expensive school with sometimes-tense "townie" relations. I tended to empathize more with the town folks, honestly, which was probably a class thing - I was on a "full-ride" scholarship, from a poor family, and working in the cafeteria with a lot of non-students. There are a lot of reasons for tension, but I think the hardest one is that most of the students are explicitly in an experimental mode, trying out new ways of thinking and relating, while folks in the surrounding town... are not, and have no incentive to indulge the rich kids from out of town.