England/british style sims

I miss The sims 2 aparment life lol

"steve7859;12876537" wrote:

"windweaver;12851694" wrote:
To be honest, I didn't know there was that much of a difference, besides the titled nobility....and the wonderful accents! :D I know London's been around for a couple thousand years, so that's different. But really, how much is really that different? I do watch BBC America, I am in love with Netflix Primeval...is that show still being produced? Hope so, but miss Nick and Stephen terribly. Anyway, your bureaucrats are called Ministers, right? Ours are called Plumbs :s

England is very very different from America, different architecture style, different foods (fish and chips, pie and mash ect) and fashion.

Its a different culture entirely, which now that you mention it, is why sims cant be british....we dont knock on our neighbours doors just for a chat, we don't go on dates...we do however sleep with people we've only just met so that could work...

I miss The sims 2 aparment life lol

To be completely honest, Americans don't knock on neighbor's doors to chat, either. Americans don't really talk to each other at all. Neighbors may chat over the fence if we are outside doing yard work or washing the car, or say hi if we pass in the grocery store, but we have become a pretty antisocial and untrusting society. No one would really walk up to a group of strangers up the street and just start talking. Even if we are going to a friend's house we wouldn't knock on the door, we call them on our cells from the car to let them know we are there.

Your experience of neighbours varies around the UK. Traditionally southerners are reserved whereas you can be standing in a bus queue in Newcastle and be chatting to the person next to you.

Villages are best for community but that is true world over. When the poor lived in slums and back to back terraces there was a strong sense of community. There had to be because it was so very crowded :)

But it isn't all grim. We have street parties to celebrate major Royal events and many places annual fetes, flower shows, fun runs and even carnivals. Our next major event will be Guy Fawkes :) :)

I have lived in Staten Island and California. I have always lived in nice but older communities, with lots of family nearby. If someone new moves on the street they often have several neighbors bring them "welcome" presents, the neighborhood list with everyone's name and number, ect. If someone goes on vacation there is always a neighbor willing to take care of pets, mow the lawn, get the mail, and water the plants. Christmas time everyone exchanges cookies, ect.

My brother lives in a small town in Missouri and they are even more tight knit.

Maybe it depends on what kind of area you choose to live in. I have never lived in a "newer" area and have gone out of my way to help out and get to know my neighbors. I think having a dog helps too since everyone sees you out and about, gives an opportunity to wave and say good morning/evening, ect. A sense of community is something that is important to me, so I go out of my way to find and foster it.

Having read this thread though I realize how very lucky I am to have lived in such neighborhoods.

"Bettyboop55;12896058" wrote:
Your experience of neighbours varies around the UK. Traditionally southerners are reserved whereas you can be standing in a bus queue in Newcastle and be chatting to the person next to you.

Villages are best for community but that is true world over. When the poor lived in slums and back to back terraces there was a strong sense of community. There had to be because it was so very crowded :)

But it isn't all grim. We have street parties to celebrate major Royal events and many places annual fetes, flower shows, fun runs and even carnivals. Our next major event will be Guy Fawkes :) :)

Where I live it really just depends who lives there. We have some neighbours who do their best to avoid us and then the other day one of the others just rushed over and left her young daughter here.

I think a country village would be nice. Would be awesome, a few pubs rather than fancy bars. I always go on holiday down to Somerset and there's such a strong sense of community there.
A pub, a small farm, a park consisting of just woodland/a flat field with maybe a football net and that's it. They also all gather once or twice a year in autumn where all the farmers and locals auction their produce - I've been, it's so funny!

I don't know how easy or difficult that would be to do, but I think it could come with a seasons-like expansion.

"Bettyboop55;12861745" wrote:
Just about all the phone boxes are gone. We still have red post boxes on street corners.

Objects for the game would have to include macs, wellies, and umbrellas.

I would love to hear Simlish spoken with a Geordie accent that would be amazing :)

Of course the food would have to include deep fried chocolate bars and black pudding :)

And the busses! Not necessarily red ( although where I live - which is veeery far from London has red ones). Fish and chips <3

"Bettyboop55;12874660" wrote:
@cornishoven *waves* the variety of housing within the UK is vast. My first house was a back to back which had been rendered and painted :)

Within sims games different style terraces should be possible not only the wall textures but styles as well. TS 2 had a mansions and gardens SP which had some really useful architectural bits.

Yup, I live in a 5 year old apartment. We were the first to move in, and they are not traditional at all xD

"AlexandraJordan;12871361" wrote:
Who remembers Keeping Up Appearances??

Keeping Up Appearances was amazing xD I still see it on the TV every now and again :p

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I think the only problem would be the lack of open world - couldn't have the busses, or taxis...

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Ooops maybe I wrote too much..

Ik the myth about teeth lol, my teeth as said by my dentist are 'perfect' and I don't need a checkup for a whole year. ;p oh yeah

I would really love to see authentic Tudor buildings with dark wooden beams on the walls and ceilings and old stone castles! Also wouldn't it be cool if you could make your Sims go to a Roman Bath spa town like Bath! It's not all just Union Jacks, Red letter boxes and double decker buses you know ;)

"EmmaVane;13057191" wrote:

"cornishoven;12851632" wrote:
Thatched roof cottages, ancient castles, stonehenge, tiny dickensian style terraced houses, pubs!, football (soccer to you), the gentle swish of crickets bats on the lawn while ladies in floral dresses sip tea on the patio... Ok Im getting too British now. Lol
Oh, and I am a full Brit, born and bred... and I have never seen a red double decker bus in my life. Too many movies :D

Are you Cornish? We have red double-deckers across the county border in Plymouth...

http://www.plymouthbus.co.uk/site/uploads/images/medium/1049.jpg

We also have black cabs and there is a red phonebox and postbox right outside my flat.

Also London's full of 'em.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d7/London_Bus_route_137.jpg


Not all of them are double deckers but all the ones I've seen are red and I'm there almost every day. It just depends on what bus company you have in your area I guess. Most of the buses where I live are green and blue.

And with the cab situation, anywhere I've been that's not London just uses regular cars with a cab company sticker on them.

If the sims had a British style neigbourhood I'm pretty sure they'd use all the iconic imagery like red buses and whatnot because that's the image that non Brits have of the UK.