The fiat monetary system is hugely based now upon real estate and in particular residential housing. If as some Bitcoiners predict and fiat is dying ( I hope) then real estate could be a terrible investment in terms of future return. Real estate did increase in value steadily from the late 1980s until after Covid when the price of money hit rock bottom. There is a mechanism there where declining cost of debt drives up asset prices including housing. The wests banking system is more than ever dependent upon debt issued to fund and inflate housing markets- do not expect housing prices to continue to rise much now that the price of debt has reached a position where it cannot go much lower nor much higher without the entire edifice of fiat money collapsing. All that said, if you enjoy a stable base and gardening/growing your own food then owning some land is worth considering.