Welcome, I'm new and on Permafrost too, feel free to look me up if you have questions or need help, I'll be on under Snowhaze or Snowfist, play mostly in the evenings EST.
Hopefully you chose Perma due to having a RL friend their or something -- otherwise, Freeport & Antonia Bayle have the largest populations by far. Anyway, welcome! A massive depth & breadth of content awaits you - enjoy it how YOU want to! Be careful how much you let other players tell you the "best" way to play