And those of us who were young in the 80s keep on saying that isn't the whole story. But nobody listens. Cos the 'othering' and race to the bottom is more important.
Like, we had 2 average, non professional, working class salaries. And we could only borrow twice his and once mine. My salary was never going to be included as a 'real' thing because I was female, child bearing age, I was a bad risk by dint of being female, worse, a female in a steady relationship! So our purchasing power was not anywhere near what people these days think it was. So we couldn't afford much, even at the prices available back then. Not without a huge (by the standrads of the day) deposit, the size of which would have bought outright the flat we eventually settled on.
There is always more to it when trying to compare historical house buying with current mores. It isn't helpful to outright dismiss the difficutlies of then or now, as so many do.