Yeah certain areas. Come to the south and even worse the south east and it’s a completely different story.
I lived in Maidstone for 3 years so I've got a good idea how the SE is which is why I only said "House prices
in some areas of the UK are a joke" rather than the more hyperbolic statement you made of "
House prices in the UK are a joke. Future generations have zero chance of buying unless they get some serious help from their parents.." so although somewhere like the SE which is more expensive than elsewhere will have a little more more difficulty, you'll still be able to find places - Maidstone had 50 properties for under £100k for example and most SE towns have a similar number (I checked about 10 others with a +5mile radius) so much less but still there.
But again in my own view, you'd have to be happy with just "getting a house" rather than expecting some 2-4 bed lovely house like your parents have, which a lot (but by no means all) of the younger generation seem to have an this "expectation" about, that owning one like that as a first house should almost be a right yet complain about difficulty saving money while they holiday twice a year, take pics with their £500+ phones of their £300+ppm PCP cars and watch £100ppm Sky/Netflix on their £1k TV's etc - again, not all of the younger generations think like that, just the most vocal on Social Media whilst the rest crack on working & saving.
I know I'll sound unfair to some of the youth of today who look at this as an insurmountable problem but it's really not for most, you just have to make the conscious decision which is more important to you - saving for a house or "things"/going out/holidays etc because you can't do both unless you're paid well. For example a 5% deposit on a £100k house in the SE is £5k and a 95% repayment mortgage is under £500 a month for 25 years so if you can save just £5k you can get a house and thats not a "
zero chance" of buying.
Just to add a little personal flavour into this, I am ex-military and always lived on base so I've never owned a house as I spent all my money on cars/drink/holidays etc when I was younger, and at 40+ I'm now just looking to buy my first house so hopefully I should be considered a parable for the youth of today - Don't wait to long - get a house early in life, save hard to buy ANYTHING just to get on the market because you don't want to be still paying a mortgage when you're 65+.