At this point, owning a home in the United States is a money racket. Everything about it is designed to extract as much money as possible from people. You don't even own it if you have a mortgage and you'll have to pay taxes, insurance, repairs, and maintenance forever. It's no longer sustainable.
A home is not an asset. It is an expense. People have been convinced that homes are their biggest asset when until you sell it, it is a cost.
And it takes a lot of time just to clean and maintain, especially if there is a yard involved. People literally work all week to pay for something and then spend the majority of their free time and money caring for it. It gets tiresome.
My solution was to convert much of the yard to productive use. We have four gardens, a berry garden, fig tree, and blueberry shrub. Next month we prep an area for the grapes to go in this spring. Now we get something for the effort.