Region Not Sharing Resources / Status Checks between cities

I have an oil city with 150K residences with unemployment of 3K low wage sims.  3 other cities in region with access to rail and bus terminals.  My city had 2k unemployed low wage sims, yet would only export about 200 per month.  

As a side note, it appears bus terminal busses from neighbor cities are clogging the hell out of my city.  They should only go to the Local Bus Terminal, not to each bus stop in my city.   

Same problem.  None of the inter-city interactions work for me at all on NA East 2.  I built departments of utilities, transportation, etc. in one city in the region, and none of the neighboring cities recognize them.  It lets me click on the "buy" buttons for power, water, etc. but no services ever arrive.  Ditto for anything else you can think of (regional buses, zone demand, commuters, etc).  My understanding is that the servers simulate all of the inter-city interactions, so it makes sense that these aren't functioning at all, given that every other server-related thing is totally broken.  Maxis may even have turned these off intentionally to try to slash the server load as much as possible just to let people get in and play something.

Build more industrial, make jobs for them there

Been having the same problem.  I can't export or import electricity, sewage, water, workers, or gift anything.  I'll send money to another city, and they'll never get it.

*puts hands up*  I give up.  Wake me up from my rage-induced hibernation when this game is playable, please.

to have your sims commute to other cites you 

have to make sure that the roads connecting to your other cities are med dense to high 

also make sure one of your town halls has a transportation add on moduel and each city has to have a connection to a train or bus 

it takes about 30 mins to see the affects take place *in each city* (so you going to have to play 30 mins for each city you want to see this change to)

also this is very important if one of the cities has enough jobs your sims will not leave your city to commute to an industrial city to find a job 

so make sure that if you have two cities that have industrial but your main city has none but has commercial you must remove half the work force 

and you will see that sims will have no choice but to leave your current city to travel to another to find a job 

so step by step 

one make sure city one has no jobs for sims to work for 

two make sure roads connecting to the main outlet road are med density 

three make sure you have a department of transportation set and bus station and stops all around and or train station 

make sure your other cities have bus stations and stops to job sites

and you should see progress in 10 mins or more 

i have three cities two are industrial and one is just plain residential 

my resident city has all the schools and my other two cities have ppl pouring in to come to school in my resident city 

cause i have the only school in the region catch is plop school bus stops in the cities with no schools and the other will pick up the slack 

it goes the same for any other zone 

my industrial cities have ppl pouring in from my residential city for work cause i have no source of jobs in residential city 

hope this works out for yall 

when you want to give utilities to other cities in need 

you have to be in the city you started the service you want to provide to your other cities for a few mins 

make sure that the city you started the service such as power is on and running also make sure that it is supplying power 

once you have made sure the following is set you may now go to your other city and see if the service is set up to buy 

this takes about a few mins of game time 

its best if you set the speed up to two arrows to make sure time is going by quick 

Waste, so you can't just have your sims commute using cars?  That's odd. 

remember ppl one city can handle a work load for two connecting cities 

so you could plop one town hall with all the upgrades and add ons 

and just plop a regular town hall witn no upgrades and such 

and that one city that has the fully upgraged town hall will run your other two cities 

it just takes 30 mins for it to see this 

also helps if you visit or play each city for 30 mins 

as each city takes 15 mins to refresh it self 

Also, I tried everything you proposed for the utilities, it still doesn't work.  Thanks for the effort though.

you can have em travel by car but you will have to upgrade your roads to higher density its not worth it 

causes to much traffic  and there is alrdy a traffic bug  i notice from 34hrs of game play