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The long term goal of having a colony is to have a self-sustaining population outside of this biosphere in case this one gets cooked, and to have a practice stepping stone for when the solar system eventually will.

You might be able to do that on Mars, or with very large O'Neil cylinders stationed sufficiently distant from Earth, but you can't do it with a floating sky city that floating over what amounts to lava. There's no good way to gather materials - so why bother sticking yourself inside a gravity well with nothing of use in it?

I mean, it'd be interesting as an engineering research project, but it doesn't have any substantive long term application. It might be something to try after colonizing a few other worlds and moons.

Though some folks have been talking about ways to burn off and solidify Venus's atmosphere via chemical chain reactions. Awhile after that, it might start looking more inviting.