Request Granite Falls for normal gameplay

I actually created a "nomad" Sim to see if she could live in Granite Falls full-time.  I was willing to pay vacation rentals permanently and just never leave, so her "home lot" was the cheapest lot in the game (in Oasis Springs) and just had a tent and a 4 tile square floor under the tent (so it would count as a tiny house). I gave her the freelancer career, because you can freelance on vacation.

The short answer is:

YES, they can freelance just fine in Granite Falls and thereby afford vacation rentals and just never leave, but also

NO, they get a sad homesick moodlet after 5 days.

(You're homesick? But home is a tent, a camping shower, a grill, a picnic table, and a bush, and this is a cute little cabin where you've upgraded everything that could possibly be upgraded!)

In short: I would love to live in Granite Falls, even if I had limited career options. 

(She's the Sim I moved to Henford-on-Bagley, but I think she's missing her tent!)

[ETA]  Other drawbacks of just spending all your money on vacation rentals and never leaving:

1. You can't go to any rabbithole career because you're "on vacation."  The only career you can have is freelancer, and you can only take jobs you don't have to travel to complete or else your "vacation" ends.  You could theoretically buy an easel on your home lot, put it in your inventory so you can take it on vacation with you, and paint for a living, though.  Or if you're willing to use the bb.enablefreebuild cheat, you could create other craftables.  If you're in Selvadorada, you could be a Treasure Hunter indefinitely and sell treasures for vacation rentals, of course.
2. If you have children (part of why we moved to Henford-on-Bagley) they'll never go to school because they're "on vacation."  They also can't attend Scouts on vacation, but if you have the Parenthood pack they hemorrhage responsibility for missing Scouts while on vacation.  Grrrrrrrrrrrr!!! (Annoying workaround:  Send children home from vacation before Scouts meeting and invite them back after.)
3. If you have a spouse, obviously your spouse also cannot have a rabbithole career.  Well.  Theoretically you could send the spouse home before work and let them go, then invite them to join you on your vacation when they get off work.  That would get old fast for most careers...
4. You cannot accept social event texts while "on vacation" or your vacation ends.  I haven't tried this with multiple people on vacation, so perhaps I could go to the social event, switch control to whomever was still "on vacation," and invite the person who accepted the invitation to join me?
5. Bonus: I considered having her marry the Hermit or a park ranger, but those are NPC roles and I would be unable to add those Sims to my household without "breaking" them.  Alas, it would be nice to live in the Hermit's house in the Deep Woods!  There's a possible workaround where you would marry the Hermit or Ranger but NOT add them to your household.  For the hermit, you could theoretically marry the hermit, not "move in together," but go to the hermit's house and never leave (see above about careers).  I was going to suggest adding the Ranger to a club and starting a club gathering to get him to hang out with you in your cabin, but clubs are unavailable on vacation.
6. There are no vets in Granite Falls or Selvadorada.  The only way to go to the vet in Brindleton Bay is to end your vacation.  (I suppose that theoretically if you have a multiperson household you could send the sick pet and one person "home," switch control to them, let them go to the vet, switch control back to the person on vacation, and invite the person and pet back?)  Stock up on Wellness Treats.

Based on another AHQ post about residential living in Selvadorada, I'd like to expand my request.  Please open up Granite Falls and Selvadorada for regular travel and residential living.  Thanks!

I'd love to see this. I get my Sims to spend weeks in both places and I edit the lots too.

The problem is the Homesick Moodlet gets overwhelming and even my adventurous Sims are miserable as soon as I extend the holiday again after it's reached the maximum number of days. The trip then turns into a nightmare of trudging and sniffling. Every 4 hours the Moodlet expires and then begins again. I like to collect absolutely everything before I leave and they're too busy weeping lol.

With the jungle they'd need to put the temple area as a separate space so that the temple resets on a visit to that specific site, rather than resetting on a visit to that world as a whole. I've often thought it would be good if they did that anyway.

I'd also love to be able to edit the Hermit's cottage and live there. It's such a beautiful place.

Hi all,

This thread is older now, so I've locked it to prevent necro-posting.

If you have further feedback on this topic, please feel free to create a new thread so we can take a look 🙂