Where you live is a proxy of your class and status btw. And it's total bullshit. It also isn't a Scotland phenomenon. Liverpool and Washington oop norf also experience this. I'm sure it's measurable in Germany or France too. And let's not think about central NY vs outskirts New Orleans
What this is showing is how entrenched we are. It is so hard to transcend a class system. We're not far from a caste system, as Edinburgh University has presented recently