There are so many bowyers and stores with good bows not to mention clubs, that you shouldn't have any problem shooting both before you buy. Now that longbows are basically as fast a recurves, I prefer to shoot LBs. You need to adapt your form subtly to either one, or to different features in either one. My current longbow was built about 10 years ago by Elburg, and doesn't give much up to anyone. It never had any handshock, and it shoots nicely as long as you know how to place your hand on a low wrist grip.

Most important factor to keep the fun in it is to not fall into the overbowed trap.

"Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. -- David Copperfield. Chap. xii.

Charles Dickens"

Take that quote and modify it for bow weight relative to your particular strength, and it about sums it up.