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Limsa Lominsa. Because there's a Marketboard and a Summoning Bell right next to the spawn point.
With a glamour vendor directly across on the other side.
I prefer the Maelstrom faction too- I really don't see much difference between the 3 factions aside from their colors, but their Elite gear (from hunting) by far looks the best.
That and the daytime music kinda reminds me of How To Train Your Dragon.
When I first started playing I thought for sure it'd be Gridania. It's gorgeous, it has the archer's guild, and on the surface it has the fewest problems. But over time the layers get peeled back, and its problems bother me more than Limsa's or Ul'dah's partly because people acknowledge that they HAVE problems (in-universe, that is). But Gridania has a horrifyingly thorough culturally reinforced racism against anyone who isn't a wildwood or midlander, bows down to and fights to appease a power that doesn't care about them but is always framed as necessary for reasons that are never clarified (especially since La Noscea has no Elemental dictatorship and it's thriving naturally), and are subject to rule by a bunch of magical apparently immortal children. And then of course there's the insular cultural xenophobia that completely ignores how they desperately needed outside help to stay afloat after the calamity, particularly financially.
Limsa has its problems too, but that's mostly to do with freedom, and when freedom stretches into criminal activity and where the line gets drawn for which activities.
Ul'dah, though. The Syndicate, the Alacran, and the veritable army of skeezy merchants make for a place so full of corruption that a random civilian outright tells you that the brass blades are worse than the criminals in a lot of ways. But I still fell in love with Ul'Dah, despite actually not being that fond of desert levels in games generally. I really loved the good people that ARE there. People like Wymond, Momodi, Raubahn, or even Phillice. It became a place that I want to help, I want to make better BECAUSE it's so awful and corrupt in so many places. As someone else in this thread said, I love Ul'Dah like Batman loves Gotham.