Try disabling Neighborhood stories in settings. It's hard to see the scroll bar but if you are playing at 1200x800 resolution the setting to disable neighborhood stories will be JUST BELOW your field of view. Scroll your mouse down and tick the box to disable it. Can't believe that setting was there.
I don't want to disable neighbourhood stories but just the moving in/out feature which should be possible in the Manage World Panel.
Following information from above I have the apporiate settings off (set as disabled completely off), but the neighbor stories are continuing the background! I have a played sim living in an apartment got a notification that the sims broke the lease and moved out. Without interacting with sims in game, I am also noticing that they are getting married and moving in the background. I don't want neighborhood stories going and would prefer if I can have multiple played families in the same save without worrying that changing things in the background.
I was using a mod (MC Command Center) to increase max sims on a lot. I started it a new file to test it (without mods loaded) and the settings described here work. *sign* I didn't realize that this mod had settings that affected other sims in my game like this. Sorry about that thanks for you time.
