Changing City-State in 2.1?

[Anapingofness]

I'd like to know as well OP, however, I'd also like it if the city states had their own storylines more akin to the XI city state storylines
There is a lot of lore in XIV. Each city state had their own history and how they got to be where they are now.
It'd be a shame to not explore thoroughly.

[Enkidoh]

I'd like to know as well OP, however, I'd also like it if the city states had their own storylines more akin to the XI city state storylines
There is a lot of lore in XIV. Each city state had their own history and how they got to be where they are now.
It'd be a shame to not explore thoroughly.

Not really - the starting city story finishes effectively once you get your airship pass - from then on all three city storylines converge as one regardless of starting city and remain as such for the rest of the game. Grand Company status in unaffected by starting city, as you can choose a Grand Company different from which city you started in.

The three cities all end up with the same basic scenario anyway and only differ in details (player helps the nation with it's immediate problems (involving the beastmen), during which

the Archon for that city helps the player, ultimately leading to the revelation that the Ascians are stirring up the beastmen in the local area, and the player discovers that they can use the Echo. The player is then honoured by the city's leader as a hero in a special event, and then dispatched to the other two nations as the city's envoy to help organize a memorial event for the victims of the Calamity.

From then on it's the same storyline no matter what city you started in.

This is very much in keeping with how 1.0's starting storyline unfolded, although at least this time around

everything is actually happening right then and there, and not just memories of events from ten years earlier experienced by the player unknowingly blundering around in the Echo.

Sidequests go into more detail about the past history of each city though, especially the class quests from each guild, so those are worth doing as well if you want to get 'the full picture' of the lore of each city.