What exorbitant network fees are you talking about? For me it was only in 2017 when it was significant, but still smaller than what transferwise or international bank transfer usually takes from me (BTW make sure that you use a native SegWit address or lightning wallet for efficiency)
What "exorbitant network and miner fees"? According to https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/ transactions with 3 sat/byte are clearing within the next block. For a typical transaction of 400 bytes, that's around 17 cents.