and paid the premium of short-term Airbnb rent.

Now, you don't get the same lot size for the same price, that is true. But we learned we didn't really miss it having a fenced .25 acre yard. Why? because we had several acres of shared green spaces right across the street. As a Dutch man told me, "it's strange in your country...you travel to see nature. We just try to have nature around us everywhere." And it's true, at least in the Netherlands. I realized I don't need to have MY green space, I just needed A green space that my family could use, and that was fine.