Originally Posted by
pilotchute
I would suggest doing your training at a school in the USA that does FAA and EASA licence on completion. The Australian licence is pretty useless outside OZ but not that hard to convert FAA to Aussie CASA.
That will give you max amount of options.
However it does become a pain when converting an FAA licence (or any ICAO licence for that matter) to an EASA one - the stuff they make you do is such a strenuous process.