Town life stuff not downloading

Please uninstall the Origin client and redownload and reinstall it. That fixes most download issues.

I am having the same problem, it won't download.  I uninstalled Origin and reinstalled it, and it still won't download, now what?

Make sure nothing is blocking the connection (firewall, anti virus, another program)

Here's a list of programs that are known to cause a conflict: https://help.ea.com/article/programs-that-may-cause-conflicts-with-origin