/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

I used to live in a poor country in SE Europe and then thanks to good grades I moved to another, richer country to study because of a scholarship. I got a good job offer and have been making an okay amount of money and can for the first time in my life can afford nice things and go to cons and have fun.

The issue? That 'okay' amount of money is obscene in my home country and when I say I would like to make more I get scorned because "you should be grateful! I don't even make that much!" well yeah, but you don't live in Switzerland where things cost twice as much.
I have become the talk of my hometown, everyone is making fun of me behind my back and saying how spoiled I am, they're saying how I might be "rich" but money can't buy looks, how I have forgotten my roots, how I am "SOO ARROGANT AND FULL OF HERSELF" even though I have been super nice to literally, LITERALLY everyone I met when I visited home and they were nice to me too.

They have been digging through my past and laughing at me for having been a weeb as a 14yo teenager and say how I got to where I am by having sex with the university dean (because I am female, even though I had never set foot outside of my country before because I was, you guessed it, poor as shit), how I had connections, how my mom is a hooker, etc etc.
I feel so shitty. Those people went with me to school and they know how hard I worked while they beat each other up and had sex in the gym showers. They have no right to talk that way about me, I have been nothing but nice to them all these years.
Man, it feels awful. No wonder those rich girls from my country end up being so bitchy and hateful.