First of all, this is all irrelevant unless you have G devices. The problems that occur when you have a mixed (g and n network) occur only when the various devices connected to one of the routers require use of the lower (g) standard. The routers are not connected to each other wirelessly and do not affect each others connection that way. The only thing you should worry about is making sure the channels of the 2 routers are far apart and do not interfere. (in fact you should worry about this, regardless)
If you have G devices:
It is a myth that a router will revert back to a lower standard if it has both G and N devices connected. The quality of the connection will deteriorate for the N devices but not that much.
You could keep the SSIDs the same and then yes devices will pick the signal that is strongest. The N router will only lose some of it's throughput if the G device is connected to it. If the G device is closest/connected to the G router, no speed will be lost on the N router. One way to keep the SSIDs the same but stop the G device from connecting to it and bringing down speeds is to set the N Router WiFi to Performance Mode which may or may give your N devices a boost. Performance Mode only works with N devices and thus your G devices won't be able to connect to it and degrade the connection.
Different SSIDs allows you to limit G only devices to the G router by only teaching them to connect to that router. They won't affect the N bandwidth since they will never connect to the N router)
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