World Suggestions
Hey guys! I was wondering if anyone could help me find this type of world I'm looking for. I want to play a world that has a small town, New England feel to it. Lots of trees and small houses. Has any...
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@Rflong7 New England towns do seem to have their own "feel," but it's hard to explain what might be different from other areas. In a lot of New England, town government is more significant than, say, where I am, where county government is more significant. Early towns (I don't know - maybe more than early) were set up around a town center that would have a meeting house for the community. At this point, I would think most of the open area in a town center would be park-like. I used to go to areas in New England occasionally, although haven't in a long while, and the last time was a city trip, Boston, so I'm getting fuzzy. Honestly, I think the set up of a New England town is a lot like a lot of Sims 3 towns, where your big park is probably fairly central and near things like city hall, the library, etc.
You're going to find a lot of colonial type buildings in styles that would offer a lot of protection from the winter weather and that aren't too "fancy" or ornate. Think Cape Cods, saltboxes. Early houses would have had steep roofs due to snow, fewer or no windows on sides that got a lot of wind, would face in a direction that minimized wind and maximized sun exposure (I think I've read facing South). Of course, as time marched on, so did styles of buildings, but I think the tendency toward being restrained in decoration continued to be a New England thing.
I think of the classic steepled country church as being New England-ish, and I think some of the town meeting halls were built along those lines.
This is just a combination of my hazy in-person memories and observations and my later fascination with a cultural geography class where I studied a little of this stuff, basically flow of things in US from one area to another over time.
You're going to find a lot of colonial type buildings in styles that would offer a lot of protection from the winter weather and that aren't too "fancy" or ornate. Think Cape Cods, saltboxes. Early houses would have had steep roofs due to snow, fewer or no windows on sides that got a lot of wind, would face in a direction that minimized wind and maximized sun exposure (I think I've read facing South). Of course, as time marched on, so did styles of buildings, but I think the tendency toward being restrained in decoration continued to be a New England thing.
I think of the classic steepled country church as being New England-ish, and I think some of the town meeting halls were built along those lines.
This is just a combination of my hazy in-person memories and observations and my later fascination with a cultural geography class where I studied a little of this stuff, basically flow of things in US from one area to another over time.
