In Russia, if you are born in Moscow and inherit a granny's flat¥, it gives you an enormous boost. You are free to choose any occupation and dabble in any kind of weird lifestyles or rent it out and live abroad with very modest effort.
Meanwhile, if you did not inherit one and don't work in IT, expect to work hard and spend the majority of earnings on rent/mortgage.
This applies nontheless even if all of your ancestors were lower middle or working class.
¥ Which she got from the state basically just for being there.