A thought or two from me.
(1) Who cares what sort of place you're learning in, there won't be time to enjoy the tourist attractions and night life anyway.
(2) If you've a specific plan to fly a particular type once you're qualified, learn on that. If you don't, learn on what's cheapest (or happens to be used by what seems the best school) and convert later - there's nothing basically wrong with either the PA28 or C152/172 as a trainer, if there was you wouldn't see them in so many schools worldwide.
(3) Forgiving easy to fly aeroplanes aren't necessarily the best trainers - which could be an argument against either !
(4) You can spin a C152 but usually not a PA28, but since you'll normally only see incipient spin awareness on the PPL syllabus, that's probably irrelevant anyhow.
G
(Owner of a PA28 share, but usually hire Cessnas when away from home).