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My vote went to asteroids (though I think space in general fits). I think after awhile, that planets will only be settled to set up initial infrastructure on the planet. Many people will probably stay, because they've built a life already. And instead of vast surface colonies, you have concentrated cities, with most of the population in Dyson bubbles around the planet, built from planetary resources and nearby asteroids.
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Well, I voted for Ceres/Jupiter/Saturn. Not just because of what Elon has said, but because a surface colony can pretty much grow indefinitely while a cylinder is limited my the tensile strength of it's material. And Venus if currently a bit "off-limits" as the Dv required to travel from a floating city into LVO is beyond Starship's Delta-V capacity.
In particular I have a bit of a soft spot for Titan, since it's the best source of Methane beyond Mars and that's what Starship runs on. Of course, if Roscosmos or the CNSA builds a similar type of vessel using Hydrolox or Hydrogen NTR propulsion, that changes a lot.
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