I've been an Aether native from the start so I can give a bit of insight now that I've traveled to other DC's:

- Our queues are faster, even for daily roulettes. I'm not sure if it's because we've had a congested population for almost the entire expac (currently not congested on a lot of worlds, even Sargatanas surprisingly) or if it's because our players have a higher proclivity towards running content, but it is an observation I've made.

- FC quality depends lol. There's def some large ones that are pretty good, and we have a lot of 'legacy' FC's that've been around since ARR. We benefit from this because everyone tends to travel to us for raids and not vise-versa so our server populations tend to be around and more active when they're online as opposed to being on a different DC

- Our RP community is pretty active but not as much as one would think. Most of it derives from the 'clubbing rp' scene from what I've observed, tho I can't give a lot of insight into that as I'm not into rp except when I sneak to a venue to enter a giveaway

- Most aether players are pretty bad at pvp in my experience. I've been running rival wings on Primal for mog tomes and the queues are popping (dead on aether p much). I've noticed that the players on primal are - on average, significantly better than the ones on Aether from what I've been able to tell. Definitely more organized.

- Raiding is our big thing, checking pf will be proof enough. We tend to have well over 100 different raiding pf's up for all sorts of content at prime hours and especially on the weekends during prime hours.

- Housing is housing lol. No vacancy rip

- Eureka/bozja communities def exist but mostly for BA and DRS, and they're fantastic. Beyond that tho if you hop into Eureka or Bozja for the first time you're not going to get a lot of help unless you have friends with you. This is based on my personal experience so ymmv

- It's interesting to go to other DC's because no one has their cool weapons or gear out on display. I like that about Aether tbh, I think the weapons look good and I get to think "good for them."

- Not sure about the LGBTQ thing but then again it varies based on who you ask and what their experiences are. I wanna say there's a grain of truth to that but I don't have enough empirical evidence to support the claim enough to make it. Aether is extremely LGBTQ friendly tho

- I rake in the gil over here but I figure you can do that anywhere. The markets will just have different hot spots due to what the needs of the servers in question are.


In short, is the grass greener? idk it depends on your needs. Unless you plan on hardcore raiding then I'd say you're prolly fine staying where you are. As always, ymmv, and there's a lot to consider when initiating a DC travel. Starting over in a new place isn't always easy.