Haven't posted in here for a long long time but occasionally I have a look to see what's going on and was a little concerned by jamesgrainge post. I know your topic is about looking outside of Europe but on your option 1 my thoughts are this:
I did the modular route a over a decade ago. Jamesgrainge is absolutely correct modular/integrated you ll have the same license at the end of the day. That was partly my reasoning and also the savings in cost. I was lucky. Finished my fatpl managed to get into another training group and 2 years after I finished I was sitting in the RHS of an airline.
I'm now extremely fortunate to be sitting in the LHS of a well known European airline which means I get to fly with lots of newly qualified FO's. A vast majority but not all were integrated/MPL. The airlines at the moment for newbie FO's seem to massively prefer this. If I had to go through it all again I would be banging on the door of CTC/Oxford trying to get on an integrated/MPL course if you have the available finance. No easy task I know.
Lastly only get a PPL if you are definitely going modular. It would be a waste to do a whole PPL then decide to go integrated. My advice do say 5/10 hours at a local flying school to get a good taster then decide.
Last edited by Mooneyboy; 22nd August 2016 at 19:34.
Reason: Para edit.