Starting areas in order of preference

1. Undead - just seems to have a wonderful progression and lots of quests without huge amounts of travel.

2. Blood elf - Very similar to the undead area, lots and lots of quests without a bit more travel than undead

3. Orc/ Troll

I hated the tauran starting area - I tended to kill off the characters prior to them hitting 10. I finally persevered and got a tauren out of the starting area and in to the barrens but it's not great.

I just cant do alliance - my highest alliance is probably a 16 and I always end up deleting them - I am horde at heart.