I believe the original heading of this thread was "Why buy in Germany" A simple question with an equally simple answer. It just does not make financial sense to ignore Germany.
No projections/analyses/graphs/tables/agency double talk/hype. Just common sense - get on a plane, get off the plane walk around the cities, feel the vibrancy and the buzz, sample the lifestyle, look at the infrastructure - impressed. Then go and look in the estate agents windows. The price you see is not the deposit BTW - it really is the price.
Source some financing. You are now about 75% of the way along the journey. DO NOT lose sight of the fact it has taken you a long time to earn the money you are about to spend, DO NOT leave your brain in Gatwick departure lounge.
Now is the time to get analytical - seek comfortingly impartial advice, decide on whether to act on that advice and then - just do it.
Here endeth the lesson.