You seem a bit squeamish for most of the UK - you have to be prepared to muck in with the great majority of people if you in a city and as for the countryside - eesh - it's countryside. Also, everyone would laugh at your accent, but everyone laughs at everyone's accent - it's a thing.
If you were coming Brighton and North London are very open places... I hear great things about Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool too but they are up norf do I don't have much to do with them. As for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland - I wouldn't even bother
As for money, I'm guessing your talking dollars - that means £20-25k, a very liveable wage, somewhere around the area of a middle manager/ teacher (and about 15k more than me, and I survive most of the time).