$180k for a massive house (by U.K. standards). Seems like a bargain
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2937-Queen-Rd-Clendenin-W...
That’s the cost of a typical deposit in the U.K, doesn’t look rundown or anything.
Also about the point of being unaffordable, your first listing basically doubled since the last sale a few years ago, so in relative terms things aren’t looking too good. The second one’s estimate seems to have gone down recently, which tbh in this environment makes me think there is something very wrong with the house or the area and I would research the crap out of it before even considering looking at it.
Hell is most of the US you could buy a trailer and some land, bit of solar and batteries, build out a cesspit and start building something piece by piece.
Of course you can’t be 20 minutes from Times Square if you do that. But 100 million people want to live in Manhattan, and they can’t all do
Why not take a vacation there? Looks like there's a regional airport in Thomasville only a 30-minute drive away, but it looks like it's too small to serve passenger planes. You might need to fly into Jacksonville FL, and drive ~2 hours from there.