And on top of that they are generally much more expensive than American houses to begin with.

That very much depends on the area and the house itself.

I’m not subscribed to this community and just found this content via “all”. If you’re in there, you’ll always get downvotes from people who just don’t like this kind of content. Don’t worry about it.

systemd gets stuck because it’s trying to mount two separate partitions to the same mount point

Uh… Sounds like it’s not really system’s fault, your setup is just terrible.

I’ve tried fixing it, but all I did was break it more.

If you’re unable to fix it, maybe get somebody else? Like, this doesn’t sound like it’s an unfixable issue…