All this talk of the starting cities is making me want to play more than I currently do (which is like once a month). I really miss the old days when I spent a lot of time there, just doing quests for the heck of it and immersing myself in the environments while I slowly leveled up.
To quote Don Henley, "Those days are gone forever. I should just let 'em go, but...."
That's exactly what I'm doing with my LP character. Slow and steady. Taking my time. Unlocking every job(I never leveled everything, skipped on stuff like BRD, PLD, BLM, SMN). Going to level everything, if only to earn more gil through sparks and NPCables and whatever I can AH. 
It's crazy man. I got Tenshodo Invite today, and went in there... they straight up sell like all of the hard to get quested spells. Utsusemi: Ichi for 13,981 gil from an NPC...
Scroll of Teleport <Insert Crag Here>: 36k
I refuse to buy it, though. I have already started trading Zinc and I don't have to get very much more!