Even as a player who continuously play the game for 3-4 months, I remembered I made milions of gils but I don't think I actually make 10 million gils (no crafting nor selling, just duties). But even if I could stack enough gils to buy a house and still have spare gils to spend on other stuffs, the big problem remains on the fact that no houses are available: either a lot of people already purchased them or a big social FC already bought the whole plot (some people actually confirmed this and I find them to be reasonable - One house (L/M/S) for the FC, the rest are for the members with help of others). I am from Ultros and I hardly find any houses available (only 1-2 small houses available to buy at one zone, and some zones don't even have plots to buy). Apartments are a "budget" solution to solve the housing shortage, but anyone can agree that, who doesn't want a house for their own?

I actually made a new character in a new preferred world (Atomos) in Japanese DB, and I had also made a few temporarily characters in other worlds there. Even with the crowdest ones (I'm not counting Tonberry or any servers occupied with a lot of English speakers), there are actually a lot of plots not owned, and I had came across some large plots un-owned, comparing to that of NA & EU DBs (presumably). I don't even see any PFs mentioning plot-reselling, not even /say and /shout to advertise stuffs like in NA worlds. I definitely would stay there and buy a house without worrying of house shortage while I desperate to go around 4 main cities looking for plots just to see it purchased a few hours later.