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Pretty sure Venus is the most Earth-like. Well, besides Earth itself.
I'd say not at all. Venus has an atmosphere 92 times denser than ours filled with sulphuric acid, its average temperature is hot enough to melt lead (455ยฐC/850ยฐF), probes sent there never lasted more than two hours before being completely destroyed, and it for some reason rotates backwards compared to other planets.
Mars doesn't have any of these issues and mostly resembles a cold desert with a very thin atmosphere, so it's far similar to Earth than Venus is.
I'm not saying Venus would be easier to colonise than Mars, but just the fact that it has a dense atmosphere while Mars barely has any should tell you it's much more Earth-like. Size and gravity is also significantly closer to Earth than for Mars which is relatively tiny.
Fair enough! That's a good point.