no regional commuting between cities at all
none of the sims in the game will commute to another city i have made sure the right transportant buildings have been placed and working. even the regional map shows the two cities are connected but...
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Hi @m7md077 - There are a lot of things I really like about SimCity, but one of the things that makes me sad is that the regional sim commuting just never worked right. This means anything that wants sims from one city to travel to another city and back again just does not work.
The short answer is - You can't get sims to commute from one city to another properly. You can get it to LOOK like sims are coming into your city, and you can get sims to leave the other city, but they will never return. Unfortunately, one of the bugs that is here to stay is Sims leaving a city for any reason lose their tracking and don't return.
Unfortunately, the devs tried, but a number of issues with syncing online really screwed it up. Some regional things directly interact, others just "look" like they're working. So if you have 100 unemployed in one City, when you're in that city's regional view, it will look at the numbers of the other city and show workers commuting, but 100 sims do not actually track to the city with open jobs. The game treats it as if they are, in regional view, but after all my years of playing I have never been able to balance jobs in this manner.
This happens with jobs and also students. So it is best to balance population on a per-city basis.
