Take it from me - dont ever try to hover the aircraft with your hands on the opposite controls -I did it as a demo with a QHI a few years ago for him to show me why you dont do it. I must have maintained control for about 3 seconds!
The feel is definitely different in the LHS. I cant remember, because it is a while since I flew a whistling chicken leg but maybe because of tail rotor roll it hovers left wing low, so the cyclic may be biased to give a disc tilt to the right with the stick central in the hover, which would require left cyclic in fwd flight when TRR is no longer a snag