This is far from the most important things you hit on, but great point about the psychological impact of where a person lives. Recently started to develop an interest in psychogeograpy, maybe this is something veen knows a bit about.The neighborhoods the poor can afford to live in often have problems with crime and disease and the general environment has a psychological impact on the people that live there.
My 1100 page geo-bible has a page on it, linking it to situationalists. I didn't know there was a specific word for the idea that psychogeography stands for but it is something that almost all human geographers either take for granted or allude to with the word place. I even wrote about it. Case in point: this essay/rant by Mike Davis, where he burns LA to the ground for being a terrible place. It was written 26 years ago but just as relevant today.