Sounds like a wise decision in your situation.
A couple of years ago, when the housing prices in my country dipped, I decided to buy a house. Main reasons were that I then had settled in a nice job and the overall costs of living are a lot lower when buying (also because of incentives).
However if I had invested part of my savings - that I used for buying the house - into crypto at that time I would now probably have no need to work anymore...