There are of course other alternatives.The tax advantages along with compounding interest are huge.

Get your liquidity up and you can compound your purchasing power.

However, I do work from home full time (worked very hard at my company for this privilege) & I have been able to cut the daycare cost & be more flexible.

WE live in the Jet age for me personally travel is one big privilege that is worth spending the money on. 

One of those houses sub divided the lot and built a compound (my guess is 10 to 12k feet dormitory) and an ADU that looks as large as my house on one of the two lots.  

They do things their own way and impose high taxes for the privilege of living and doing business there.

They can barely afford to pay their mortgages and taxes there and live in perpetual fear that they'll have to downgrade or move their kids out of the school system they're in, an unthinkable loss of social status.As their kids grow, they unthinkingly strengthen then strong and weaken the weak, culminating in too many avoidable instances of weak, brittle, fearful young people of privilege who are unable to deal with any sort of real adversity and only really do anything when faced with the possibility that inaction might significantly damage their own precious social status, documented daily on Instagram, Facebook, etc.So in my private life of old friends and family, I find myself somewhat hemmed in by incredibly hard-working people who care a great deal about social status and constantly make utterly inane excuses about why they're all so damned broke as they drive massively depreciating cars and live in houses that are dumpster fires of various expenses.

Investing is a privilege reserved for those with the means and self discipline to save money.

Not surprised though, real estate is controlled by many heartless privileged white people, my dream is to see more people of color to invest and show how not-so-privileged trashy people like you are.Sorry you feel that way Mario .

Compound that with already not liking doing those tasks and loathing it would be the most accurate term.