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More than just a plane ticket. You need a marketable skill that is easily transferred, rent, food, utilities, new transportation, new licensing, and coverage for enough months until you can get the job. Also, the immigration fees. Basically, immigration is for the rich who can use money as a cushion or for the impoverished who have nothing to lose by assuming the risk.
To be fair it is expensive if you want into Europe or something, but to leave for example to some East-Asian country, the cost of living out there is so much lower compared to US you could probably sell everything you own, buy the flight ticket there, and still have enough to live off for a while. That's obviously not sustainable in the long run unless you can figure out a source of income, but just leaving itself isn't that expensive. It's the where you're going and how to keep staying away
You'll need a marketable skill, rent, food, and transportation if you stay, too. I'm not sure what you mean by licensing. Immigration fees is something that I haven't looked into before, but it appears to be something like 800€ in here Denmark.
As for language, if you pick the Netherlands, Scandinavia or larger German cities, then English will be OK.
I'm not saying that I think it's a walk in the park, nor that'll be free, but it may be easier, and less expensive, than people think. Start by going on an extended vacation to the countries that you're interested in. Maybe talk with potential employers. Then make plans afterwards.
Fair, but some skills are inherent to your placement within the home country, and transferring that skill to another country would actually add to the expense. A great example of this would be an American lawyer relocating to France. They go through law school and learn the American/English common-law system, then they relocate to France, which bases all its laws in a statutory context. So, not only would they handicapped by this new legal mantra, they'd have to then go to school again and pay to pass the bar again. So, there's another cost.
Maybe you’ll need to learn and get proficient in a new language too
Go to a big city in the Netherlands or the Nordics if learning a new language is too hard. People there are fluent in English. And in many companies there who hire expats they speak English on the work floor.