What would you suggest with moving to uk?

Hi all, so my partner and l are 25 and we are both looking into moving over to the UK, we currently live in the Channel Islands and with the housing crisis here we are unable to afford to buy a house/earn enough together to get a mortgage, average house price for our needs are 600k upwards!

We both have good jobs I'm a plumber by trade but now director of a company and my partner is an architectural technologist.

We are currently looking at both getting jobs and then relocating and renting for 6 months to then be able to get a mortgage. We are both looking into coming over later this year to explore different areas and are very open minded on where we would relocate within the UK but we would definitely be at looking for somewhere in the country side, semi rural/rural, and we would be looking to eventually buy a property somewhere that includes some land for horses. We're currently weighing up on the areas and the job pay with what you can get house wise and crime rate.

Does anyone have any suggestions on areas? - We absolutely love new forest but it would be far to expensive.

Currently we're looking at maybe Devon or wales? Only trouble is we have noticed Devon doesn't appear to have many job opportunities. Is there any thing we are missing that needs to take into consideration? Tax's, applying for NHS NI number?

Ps area must be dog friendly! Any help very much appreciated! Thank you