Day 3 - Your favorite neighborhood (EA, downloaded, or self-made)

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Nicarra60/PiB

My actual favorite of all time was Bluewater Village in Sims 2. I loved that little extension to Pleasantview. I built homes and businesses there until I could find no more valid places to put new buildings. I built a lot more for Sims 2 - possibly because I wasn't trying to create content for so many blogs then. :)

In Sims 3, the only neighborhood I dislike is Bridgeport. Not much room for Sim families and too much emphasis on night life. I am a bit bored of Sunset Valley because I've done so much there. I like pirates so I'm fine with the residents of Barnacle Bay. Twinbrook has the punniest names for some Sims. Riverview is just fine.

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Kaleeko's Fave-or-it Town

More Rambly about it Here

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Amelia's Favorite 'Hood

I have a lot of favorite neighborhoods, to be honest. It varies by game. In Sims 2, I really liked Belladonna Cove and Bluewater Village. In Sims 3, however, I only have one favorite EA hood, and that's Twinbrook. I really like the country feel and the swamps and the gorgeous scenery. I've always liked small towns more than big ones, having grown up in a big city and moved to a small town myself. Riverview and Sunset Valley are rather plain, to me, and don't have a lot of "character." And don't even get me started on Bridgeport. As a concept, I love the idea of a big grimy city. But I hate how there's no room to put anything else you make in, not a lot of empty apartments to start with, etc. And the premade houses are fugly. 

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Sue D. Nim

I still like Sunset Valley. It feels more compact to me, so it's easier to get everyplace. And I love Central Park. My favorite of all is the expanded Sims 1 neighborhood from Unleashed, the one with the college professor's house. I used to load up that household and just sit there and watch those siamese cats for hours.

Day 2 - A house you built

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Nicarra60's last house

The house was on an unused block in Twinbrook. Limitations of the build was that the house was for starter Sims, so we ran out of money pretty quickly.

The initial build from above

So we had two bedrooms, two baths, the minimum amount of kitchen stuff required. The walls were not painted and the stuff from bath 2 was sold pretty quickly so the Sims had some cash.

As time went on and the Sims started to earn money, the house was being renovated. The kitchen moved, got bigger with nicer items. They got a desk and some living room furniture. The walls inside and out were painted. And as families grow and change, I do renovate existing structures to meet their needs. I'd have to go back to that game if you want pics of how it is at this point in time. It would have to change again soon, one bedroom has to be converted to a nursery.

My best renovation work was on Mosquito Cove, a tiny little shack that a Sam Grant lived in. I forget which clone number it was but his children were Brooke and John Edward Grant (Art Flows Through). It was quite a cute little house when the family moved to Barnacle Bay.

Addition
I forgot about this one.

This was the nursery in the Goth household. Even though I don't play the family, (it's part of the SV Times blog) I couldn't stand the idea of poor little Seth being stuck here


And I spent a few minutes upgrading the room to

which could use more but was time well spent.

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The House Kaleeko Built

Click here for a tour!

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The Only House Amelia Will Ever Build

Click here to see the rest.

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Next up?

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Okay, I'll go next.

My favorite house is the first really decadent one I built in Sims 1, where I went wild with the money cheat and the cc - back when cc was free and gorgeous and made by really talented people. It was a huge, white colonial mansion with all the luxury I could cram into it.

But my favorite building of my own creation is still The Corner Pub. They've made it easier than ever for builders, especially builders of community lots, but I got a real sense of satisfaction out of getting around the limitations in the "olden days," when you had to figure out how to use cheats like moveobjects to create what you wanted, and force it to recognize a community lot that would attract lots of sims.

(click for a quick tour)

Day 1 - Yourself as a Sim with your traits/aspiration

Anyone attempting this can post their Sims here. :)

 People's challenges:

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Kaleeko's Day 1 Challenge

 

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Nicarra's Sim characteristics.

I'm not going to try and create a Simself. When you see my Sim celebs, you'll know why.

Traits:

Slob, Grumpy, Computer Whiz, Neurotic, Genius

Seasoned Traveler. - Given I've been in North America, South America (Brazil), Africa (South Africa), Europe (UK, Italy, Switzerland, and the Czech republic) I think I can say I've filled the basics of it. But there is a lot more to see out there.

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Sim!Amelia

Hurrr is my Sim!Me. Like PiB, I really don't make simselfs, but I decided to give it a try since none of you know what I look like and thus can't judge my skills toooo much ;) Click hurrrr for the rest of the details.

Traits: Bookworm, Clumsy, Excitable, Neurotic, Over-Emotional 

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Bookworm, couch potato, hopeless romantic, loner, over emotional.
Yep, that'd be me.

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