[guineapig]

I have found that different cities are more suitable to certain tradeskills. And since you can't get more then one tradeskill above 200 per character anyway, it shouldn't be a big issue.

Freeport North is by far the best place to skill up on jewelcraft, you never have to leave the zone.

For cooking just by a spit. You will end up spendign the majority of your skillup time in East Commons making fish rolls. Yup, you heard me right. I'm not giving away more than that.

For pottery Grobb, Halas and Oggok are almost completely equal in terms of being able to skill up as much as possible in classic. If you are a good race you have 1 option. If you are evil the main difference you will notice is that Grobb has the skewers sketches where as Ogguk has sketches for various poison vials. SO after a skill of 31 there is no reason to be in Grobb.

I found that brewing in West Freeport was pretty satisfactory. I used foraged stuff as much as possible while skilling up: vegeratbles, roots, berries, fruit, (even fishing grubs before the temper recipe was removed).

East Freeport has most of the molds and patterns you will need for smithing and sewing but I don't know much more than that. I know I didn't have to leave freeport to make Banded trivial and there is no real point to making fine steel yet.

As a tailor I suggest you hang out where the spiders and animals are because collection that stuff is going to take up the majority of your time. Purchase large sewing kits as they are the best containers available until you finally own some weight reduction bags.