Empirically (aka having grown up in a poor neighbourhood) I would say that during infancy it doesn't matter much, it mostly depends on your parents background:

Empirically (aka having grown up in a poor neighbourhood) I would say that during infancy it doesn't matter much, it mostly depends on your parents background: they are the largest influence on you. It really starts to hurt is during teenage years when kids get independent. Then one of two situations use to happen: the environment pushes them down or they remove themselves from it and grow lonely. None of the options is optimal. Law 10: Infection: avoid the unhappy and the unlucky. -- Robert Greene (48 laws of power) Law 18: Do not build fortresses to protect yourself – isolation is dangerous -- Robert Greene (48 laws of power)