I prefer a manual - it feels like you're actually driving. It kinda makes me feel like a big girl π
When I learnt to drive it was an auto.
A few years later my boyfriend and I were living in Kalbarri. I really wanted to buy a mates EH Holden panelvan (coz you could sleep in the back of it - plus cool) but asy boyf said, I couldn't drive a manual.
So the owner, who worked at this horse ranch with me, would pick me up every morning to go to work and we would head down the road, swap seats and she taught me to drive a manual - stick shift mind. I bought that car and drove it home and said to the boyfriend well look at me, turns out I can drive a manual after all.