As my target audience for this post was for those on the left side of the
pond, it made more sense to convert their currency to USD.

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Dallas

That is true but its the local currency that matters when you discuss
the price of a service in a foreign country. Nobody living and working
in the US is going to go to Europe for flight training (although the
reverse can be true). If you really want to compare the costs of
flying between the USA and Europe, it might be more meaningful to
compare the fractions of disposable incomes that are required for
learning to fly in both regions. So I guess the question is, if you
are comfortably able to afford a PPL in the US (and your salary is
$xxx) and move to Germany to work in a similar job (where your salary
is EUR yyy), can you afford to learn to fly there as if you are still
in the US? I really doubt it.