VR glasses will work to turn your squalid and impoverished life in a “fifteen minute city” into something roughly approximating an anime castle.
My primary interest in VR at the moment is to improve my flight simulator experience. A small fortune can be spent on multiple monitors and other accessories and the experience will still not be as close to flying as what VR provides.
As far as escaping from my squalid and impoverished life in a “fifteen minute city”. My wife and I live in the foothills in a gated community with an airport. We have a hangar next to our house that holds two airplanes four hang gliders and a lot of other recreational items.
In our case the VR would be used to save money and time and increase safety as we age. I currently take a lot of “flights” in the flight simulator that help recreate previous experiences and bring back pleasant memories from younger days.