Thai/Chinese, they take a long term view, land is life.
We get 25 year mortgages for homes, have pension schemes, Asia, land and gold, after the GFC, they may be right.
Banks etc are bits of data, but it's your money or super/private pension, if the banks lose your money, not much you can do. Have land, its yours, banks can't lose it, world goes to shit again, you won't be hungry, sleeping under a bridge.
I retired 52, rubber, could have worked to 65 [maybe] house, dog food and baked bean pension, land is safe, barring divorce. Jim