This starting city BS effected a lot of people. It's easy to miss that info if you're not reading everything SE posts about everything. A lot of us didn't even play beta till phase 4. We updated and saw we could import and change our characters already, and were like "Oh cool, let's do that now" without knowing we needed to change our character's class.

This can be easily fixed if they give us the option to start the main quest over in another city. Just like in FFXI, where all you had to do was pay gil and you were a new citizen of the city you want, main quest reset to rank 1.

The smartest way to go would be to make it so once you'd played through a city's main quest up till the point the stories converge, you could reset in another city, starting with their opening cutscene. You could even play through all of them that way if you felt like it.

That way people that wound up in a starting city they don't like can rest easy knowing they can fix it later.