Want to buy a house?
No thanks, sold my UK property in summer 2007, unfortunately yours has a way to go down before it would make sense to buy, when they drop another 25 to 30%, I may decide to do a little 'inward investment.'
Good luck with the move abroad, but from your comments in this thread, you may have to do some adjustment of your thinking processes to fit in wherever you go to, for example free markets do not have regulation, so what is causing the depreciation of your asset is the mismanagement of a mixed economy.
That means government and the private sector both messing up, which brings up back neatly to the subject of the thread.
And you can make comments about two dimensional narrow views until the cows come home, but that it how frequent travellers think and it is costing your country a lot of lost revenue in airline tickets, taxes and other income arising from transfer pax - if I am two dimensional, you are in denial.