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Of the Maxis neighborhoods, Pleasantview. I suspect this is because I couldn't play it at first: I had a potato computer when I first got TS2, and I didn't want to experience that neighborhood until I could play it properly, so I played Veronville instead. I didn't play Pleasantview for four years, and my affection for it is such that I remade Angela and Lilith for TS3, and the Pleasant family for TS4. I also have "TS2 Pleasantview" and "Pleasantview 25 Years Later" saves for TS4.
Also of note was my favorite custom hood, Queens Bluff, which I designed in SimCity 4 and then built from scratch. It was a post-peak oil society that grew into a place that had reached the technology of the 1840s, but with a lot of medieval social structures. Anyone who wanted to become a doctor of teacher became a monk/nun, for instance, and men had to max charisma and body and serve in the military to be Knighted if they wanted to go into politics. A lot of the buildings were inspired by antebellum architecture in the South.
Also of note was my favorite custom hood, Queens Bluff, which I designed in SimCity 4 and then built from scratch. It was a post-peak oil society that grew into a place that had reached the technology of the 1840s, but with a lot of medieval social structures. Anyone who wanted to become a doctor of teacher became a monk/nun, for instance, and men had to max charisma and body and serve in the military to be Knighted if they wanted to go into politics. A lot of the buildings were inspired by antebellum architecture in the South.
