@NyxValkoinen - I'm just curious here, but do you have many of the EP/SPs and at least some of the store worlds? Between those and a hefty dose of TS3 store content, I can't say that I agree with your assessment at all, at least not once one gets outside of Sunset Valley. Without my having to design them from scratch or reach for the vast catalogs of player made lots (which I admittedly do anyway just because I like to), and contrary to my silly comment earlier in this thread about my not having left my own house since 1955, many to most of my sims and their neighbors live in and with what I would call late 20th century style housing and furnishings. There will be exceptions here and there for the more eclectic households and neighborhoods, Monte Vista and Dragon Valley styles for example hardly qualify as modern although I wouldn't really want them to be and older style farmhouses can be quite charming especially if my sims are actually running a farm, but I really can't call Bridgeport highrises, Starlight Shores mansions, and the suburban starter to more modern homes in most other worlds like Riverview Victorian.
Then again, I'm not an architect or a designer of any kind in real life so maybe the underlying style of what I call late 20th century anything is really older than I think it is. The apartment building I live in was built in the 1880s and it still has dumbwaiters and a wall compartment in the kitchen for the iceman to deliver from the days before modern refrigeration -- all painted over by now but we can still see them. I like it here and most of the neighborhood's buildings look like this, but sometimes it seems like we are fortunate to have conveniences like running water (most days) and electricity. :)
