With all due respect for the stick and rudder skills of those that fly turboprops...why get so hung up on it? Unless you plan to make a career at say PDT, flying Dash 8's you will eventually move on to flying a bigger, more automated turbo-fan powered aircraft where you will find yourself monitoring the A/P.

Point being, if thats where you end up, whats so wrong with starting out from the beginning in an RJ that way?