Advice for first village

I am returning after MANY years away and need advice, I joined world 128 and have a big p2w player quite close to me (within my 15x15) (he has 15k points and his BP only ends tomorrow at 17:00 hahah).

Should I focus on getting a very defensive village as my first village with ~300 lc to farm, or should I go full offense and hope I can get a defensive village up and running fast enough?