There are also good places to train and build hours in other parts of the world. Speaking from experience, you get what you pay for and when I built hours in the USA some of the aircraft available were absolutely shocking as were the stories of people getting horribly ripped off.
Here in Aus we have the best weather in the world for flying, and much higher standards of maintenance! It's still very inexpensive compared with Europe, and you can catch up with your long-lost rellies as well...email me for details.