It seems everyone likes to 'bag' the UK, it seems to be a national passtime!
Every country has it's issues social and financial, and you'd have to be pretty naive to believe everything the media pumps out, the media has it's own agenda.
Being an expat for just over 2 years has given me a different prespective, it's the easiest thing in the world to focus on the negatives of a country.
It takes a bit more wisdom and foresight to see through the surface and what is really on offer.
Dom