> If you don't want to pay a million quid for a house in London, refuse the game. Move elsewhere. Find a different way to get by in life, perhaps even a different country.

People did exactly what you suggest. And the country they moved to was England, and the city, London, which now has 38% non-UK born residents:

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...