Yeh, I hear you. I want to do it in the UK for the reasons you mention. It's just that the cost of the hours building is expensive. Might be worth doing the PPL here and then some hours building in the US, France, Spain etc.
Probably do half hours building then atpl ground school then the other half of the hours building.
As you all probably know us wannabees just want to keep the costs down, although I would perfer to do my training in the UK and find ways to keep the hours building costs down. Hopefully giving me the best of both worlds.
Intention is to go for Instructor/Air Taxi (don't want to go for airline) etc so UK flying and training is important to me.