You might have seen the internet joke, attributed to Twitter comic @mutablejoe, about a millennial edition of Monopoly. This updated game, so the gag goes, doesn’t ever allow players to actually buy a house; instead, they just circle the board for infinity, throwing Monopoly money away on rent.

Like most good jokes, it’s funny because it’s true. A recent survey by HSBC revealed that UK millennials (broadly defined as those born between the early Eighties and the mid-to-late Nineties) are less likely than their counterparts in countries including France, Canada and the US to own a home. Across all age groups, home ownership was at its lowest rate for three decades in 2016, with the housing crisis spreading from London to other major cities in the UK.

But it’s not all doom and gloom. According to new research, there are still UK cities where it’s possible to get on the housing ladder – you just might have to be prepared to compromise.

According to a study of more than 1,000 people by Post Office Money, first time buyers are increasingly travelling to new areas of the country to find a home they can afford. All of the participants in the research had bought a property in the last two years, and 70% said that they had eventually settled on a home an average of 26 minutes from their original desired location.

Post Office Money also compared average property prices in 14 UK cities to the percentage of properties that were affordable to first time buyers – and surprisingly, London didn’t come in last place.

The most affordable cities for first time buyers in the UK are as follows (in descending order):

These are the most affordable cities in the UK for first-time buyers