If a peasant were in the right community, perhaps, in some ways. Peasants were at the forefront of a number of innovations in farming in the Medieval period...peasants in Flanders in the 14th century were the first to realize that planting certain crops like clover on off-seasons actually rejuvenates soil and lessens the time you need to give soil off, while cattle and other livestock could eat the clover. Your Flemish peasant who coordinated with his neighbors to grow clover on their fallow fields in the off-season might end up able to use far more of his land every year than otherwise possible, and have significantly higher crop yields.

William Chester Jordan discusses the peasants of Flanders doing this in his Europe in the High Middle Ages.

Ambition might also be a factor if you were a peasant and decided to sell everything and move to a March on the borderlands of Christendom, where, often, work dues towards nobility would be waived in exchange for hereditary commitment to military service. A German peasant moving to Prussia might well have a substantially "freer" existence in exchange for doing a tour of duty against the Lithuanians. Europe in the High Middle Ages discusses this phenomenon as well.

hi. can you remove your secondary question: it turns this post into a "throughout history" question which is not permitted in this sub. Thanks!