Even, by your own definitions, your reality evolves.
What is a mansion? What is a life? What does better look to you? What are the results desired, vs, what is really required?
Sometimes, our we can shackle ourselves into a more complex hamster wheel. But, it is still a hamster wheel by design.
Be kind.
I am of the current understanding that we are always in a type of hamster wheel, no matter the decisions we make. I know people who live largely self-sufficiently in the middle of nowhere, and whole their life is different to mine, they are just on a different color wheel, running through different tasks to me.
Tgat might be depressing or, it could be something that we have to accept. Life is a series of processes, but I think of we choose to improve our own processes in ways we value, we are going to have a better life experience than those who choose to be passive victims of circumstance.