Our garden isn't average either - it's all bushes and trees and little winding tracks. The lawnmower was sold long ago. I can see rainbow lorikeets squabbling in the grevillea blossoms as I write this. And we weren't born here. We were born in the South Island of New Zealand, a beautiful country with cold winters.
Life is full of choices.
You don't have to stay where you were born. You don't have to stay in the job you're in. You don't have to carry on being the person you are. Joanna and I sat down one day years ago and worked out a few goals, wrote them down in a notebook and discussed the steps we needed to take to achieve them. We're not fanatical about it.