Best way to start on a new server?

[kate]

I'm kinda surprised that people are thinking the old characters are being abandoned or otherwise acting as if they're unplayable just because some new ones (different faction) are being rolled - do you guys find it hard to play on a couple of different servers?

Since rolling on Doomhammer I've gotten my newbies to level 20 (no RAF) and made a pretty penny for myself on that AH, but I've also logged into my horde characters on Undermine to do dailies, run a few heroics, and that kind of thing for an hour or so a day - they're far from abandoned!

Edit: Or is the assumption that I'd pay for transfers or buy new accounts? I'm just using my existing accounts because I haven't been alliance in a LONG time, and want to get a feel for it - also, it's a great way to make money, questing up, when you don't have any higher level characters. I guess I just don't see this as some major or irrevocable step.