Best start for a new toon

I was wondering whats the best start for a new toon. Since we can now choose from Praetoria and the normal hero/villain side.

Do you lvl faster with the new Praetorian arcs or is it about the same?

At least IME, there's more oppertunities for teaming in Praetoria than the other sides currently. I've heard other people saying the Praetorian enemies are harder than the ones from the other sides, but they seem about the same in difficulty to me (although maybe redside's never ending stream of CoT has desensitized me).

We've been saving Paragon City for eight and a half years. It's time to do it one more time.

I've been running a lot of lowbies through 1-20 recently, on all sides.

Blueside is fastest, if you go Atlas - Kings - Steel. I suppose the absolute optimum (outwith AE etc) would by a sewer team, followed by a radio team in Kings, then a Posi TF. I've also noticed that whilst the AP door missions were tweaked a while back to make them closer and easier to get to, the ones in Galaxy have not been, and will still merrily send a lvl 3 halfway across the map into a red zone.

Redside can be fast-ish, especially if you street sweep Mercy (I get bored with Snakes quite frequently.) There's a lot less zoning and useless running around than blueside as well. All of my fastest levelling recently has been Brutes and MMs, but I think that's as much to do with the ATs as the content.

Praetoria? I love the content, love the zones, but it's not quick. The enemies are generally tougher and, teamed or solo, it's much riskier to push up your difficulty settings, so lower xp. All of my slowest recent levelling has been done in Praetoria.

I find Praetoria pretty fast. The arcs are short, so you get the end-of-arc bonus more frequently. The enemies are pains in the butt, though. No matter what your specialty is, there's an enemy in Praetoria that can shut you down.

My preference is redside then blueside and praet if there's a gun to my head.

Fastest is probably blue, red, praet if you pick up a sewer team then KR.

I avoid praet because of the horrible low level enemies, the constant ambush of doom and the requirement to hit 20 to escape. And everyone I've spoken to refer to it as "escape".

I'd love to see a "turn off ambushes" option under difficulty because that would allievate a lot of the annoyances (for me), especially as the City of Ambushes seem to be creeping red/blueside too.