Server proximity or good TTFB?

[chainazo]

Let's say you're interested in positioning a site only locally (and forever locally only in that city).

Which would you choose between these two shared hosting options?

Option 1) Apache server within the city where you want to position (which has given me better numbers in pingdom, gtmetrix, etc. ) except for TTFB which was much better in option 2.

Option 2) Litespeed server in a neighboring country (1000 miles away).

I have already contracted both options hosting, but I will give SEO priority to one website and I am not interested in SEO for the other website.
Therefore, I would like to know where you would locate each website.

Clarification: a year ago I did this test with two sites in Wordpress that I was interested in positioning and the Apache got better results sustained over time (within the city).
But this time i´m not sure if i will use WP sites or pure html/css.

[aristotle]

The location of the server should be a minor consideration. There are many other factors that are much more important.

[not2easy]

WP sites will always load fractionally slower due to their overhead, worse with image overload without optimization of images. A decently coded html/css site will always load faster (unless it is burdened with heavy resources/images).

[tangor]

In the general scheme of things server location is not all that important, as long as it is a good responsive system that is not located in bad neighborhoods loaded with bad actors.

WP has an ease of use and function, though loaded to the gills.

HTML/CSS has less overhead and is not as subject to hacking attempts on the popular WP CMS...