Living In Sparta Vs Athens

If I were alive during Ancient Greece, I would choose to live in Sparta instead of Athens. To start with, in Sparta, women had more rights than in Athens. For example, in Sparta, women had the same simple life as me, but they could speak with men outside on their own, own property, and even marry again if their first husband had been gone for a very long time. Meanwhile, in Athens, all women did was take care of the household, they couldn’t even go outside by themselves! Second, the education in Sparta is better. For instance, in Athens the purpose of education was to be a good citizen and since only boys were to be citizens, girls did not go to school. However, in Sparta the purpose to educate was to protect Sparta. They did not care what