The problem is this. If you chose England, you would not want to go anywhere near the northern area. That is like a nuclear fallout zone and just as an example, your IQ would need to be removed almost totally if you lived in or around Manchester or Liverpool. Newcastle and the north east is where the Vikings dumped their retarded children a thousand years ago.......and it still shows.
Fortunately, the south and south west is very expensive and they try to artificially keep it that way with, for instance, very little in the way of manufacturing and jobs, while retaining high property prices and generally enormous council tax rates. They also take a dim view of benefits and anyone on benefits. This is simply a fail-safe mechanism to keep people from the north and previously eastern bloc countries away....far away....from the area. These people are regarded as a plague.
I would seriously look at currency issues right now Erik. Is the euro safe. Is the pound safe. Is the dollar over valued. All these questions and no answers. HHAHHAHAHAH. France is a great place and the French are far more cultured than the British, but the French are sick to death of the euro and euro migrants just like anyone else and who can blame them.