Charlie
You are best off learning in a piston powered ac, it will give you much more respect for machines that are closer to their power margins Will also be considerably cheaper.
As for the turbines remember everyone is a compromise.
Gazelle, expensive to run, very agile
120 very expensive to run, too fat
130 "
206 excellent but slow and a bit fat relatively cheap to run
500 most agile and fun, very quick but very small for pax cheap to run
350 very expensive but ticks a lot of boxes !