Hello folks!

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I'm living in the US right now. If I wanted to fly for an airline based in the UK (Easyjet, Aer Lingus, etc) would it be wiser from a purely educational perspective to go to flight school in the UK and earn my certificates there, or is it possible to convert FAA certificates (PPL/ATPL/etc) to EASA relatively easily? Is it possible to fly commercially in the UK using FAA certifications?

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Related. I've seen a lot of ads for short-term (1-3 year) piloting jobs in places like China, which I've also heard are terrible and I should never do them and so on. But my question really is, how does that work with licenses as well? Do they require you to be certified in China, or Vietnam, or wherever the job happens to be, or are FAA licenses valid for commercial operations outside of the US?

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Thanks!

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Edit: I've been reminded by a few posts that I didn't mention: I have dual US/UK citizenship and right to work in both countries. So that's not an issue. In other places it would be, though.

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