The UK isn't a dive man, C'mon, don't keep putting it down, I have lived in a number of countries, some of them really were dives, UK still has a lot going for it ???
I did a flying course about five years back in Limoges, brit guy and his wife ran the business, really nice couple, beautiful farmhouse,and he had a landing strip in his back garden which was handy, health reasons meant they had to move back to UK, happy as Larry nowadays, doesn't have the runway in his garden nowadays, but they are both happy with how life has gone.