This, I made an alt and got myself a medium. If it's content you really need to continue playing, you must make some compromise.
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This past round of lottery shows that over 40 Goblet plots remained with 0 bids. It would have been possible to ensure a virtually guaranteed house in the first round in Zalera if you had waited til near the end and chosen a low demand Goblet plot. It is no longer possible to get a guaranteed house for the second round, but the odds will still be far better than on a regular day - hopefully similar odds to the empyreum launch.
No one is left behind because data center travel exists. You can visit as much as you want, it's not a "you can only data center travel once a week" type system. The more socially active FCs also tend to have Discords so you can be in constant touch (or at least as much as you want) that way then data center travel when the FC is holding an event.
In the end, the player has to decide if having a house is worth the small inconvenience of having to data center travel to play with friends/FC on their old world. The OP sounds like one who would find it worth it.