I came into commercial aviation from the military route so can't offer much advice on this other than I would have thought it surely must be cheaper to do it in Florida or Oz? My nephew is self-funding himself from scratch and has costed it out (PPL/CPL/IR and frozen ATPL) to be way cheaper in the US than anywhere else.
Personally with the self-funding costs involved I cant see how the end justifies the means these days (easy for me to say probably having had little outlay) but that's just my experience mate..
