Returning Dilemma

I get homesick.  I've never really acclimatised to the tropical weather, the food, the culture and I think I've only manage to stick it out because I spend most of my time in the relative comfort of an air conditioned office.  

To an extent I suffer from culture shock and the thought of long summer days, crisp frosty mornings and steak and kidney pie have me forming an escape committee of one.

But then I read the UK papers and I realise that what I'm hankering for is to return to an England as it was, not as it is now.  Here's today's offerings, all reported in the same day's issue:

• A man with a mental age of two in a hospital where he's supposed to be cared for is found to have been gnawed by a rat, and the staff apparently didn't realise until they saw him wandering around with said rat hanging off him with its teeth embedded in his shoulder.  They claim it was a field mouse.  A nice, cute, cuddly field mouse.  As if that makes it okay?  And since when have field mice been carnivorous?
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107056/Jason-Ketley-I-gnawed-rat-hospital-bed.html#comments

• A pensioner dies after contracting pneumonia after she was left outside the care home (I use the word 'care' loosely) over night in November where she evidently wasn't being cared for at all.
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107127/Missing-pensioner-died-spending-EIGHT-HOURS-freezing-cold-outside-care-home-overnight.html

• A disabled pensioner, forced to sleep in his living room to protect his property from burglars, ends up being strangled to death by a criminal who was let out on licence (what? Like 007?  Licensed to kill?).  The crook was given a life sentence of 22 years (minimum).  He's only 24 now so he'll be younger than me when he gets out and hence still a menace to society,
• http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2107181/Disabled-pensioner-slept-lounge-protect-valuable-possessions-strangled-death-serial-criminal-prison-ON-LICENCE.html

What with all this and the myriad of other depressing issues (including fuel at £1.50 a litre - not a gallon - a litre and VAT at 20%) I ask myself what would be the point in returning when I'm sure that there's a large selection of England's population planning to or would like to leave?  

I suppose I just need to look for an alternative.