@elulu8, if you think you will prefer City Living then get City Living! I really love this pack and use the clothing, hair, and Build/Buy mode items from it all the time, and still regularly attended the festivals!
A wonderful festival for your starter Sims (especially if you don't like playing with money cheats) is the Humor and Hijinks festival! That festival has you choose if you want to be on the Humor (comedy) or Hijinks (mischief) side and then you drink the corresponding drink for which side you choose. Once you do that , preform either humorous or mischievous actions and if the side you joined wins the contest with the most interactions in their respective categories, then you get a bunch of expensive items as a reward. Both sides will gift you a bunch of fireworks if you win (which if you are poor, you can sell off for a nice amount of Simoleons) and the Humor group's winning gift is a stand-up comedy microphone (I think worth 500 Simoleons) and the Hijinks group's winning gift is a voodoo doll which I think is worth 900 Simoleons! It is a nice way to have families starting off with low funds , quickly get a little cushion to their bank accounts without you having to resort to money cheats! 😇
As for the rumor that TS5 is coming out in 2021, I wouldn't hold my breath! 🤨 There is nothing official that there will even be a TS5 (although I think there will be and I think they probably have started working on it). Like I said earlier, about a year and a half ago, a Sim Guru stated that there will be at least 3 more years of content coming to TS4. That would mean that we have at least 1 and a half years left of TS4, and then add the fact that each time EA has released the last pack of a Sims version, it is about 6 months between that and the new version. 🤨 So that would put us at June of 2022 at the earliest !🙂 Then add to the fact that TS4 might go on a bit longer than even that , plus the fact that certain things going on in the world right now have slowed down some companies rates of production. But even without that it still shouldn't be any earlier than June of 2022. I don't work for EA, but combining patterns from past release intervals, with logic, and with what the Sim Gurus have actually said, this is the earliest I can see TS5 being released. 😉 I would rather wait for a better game anyway than rush one that doesn't work. And while it is possible that TS5 could be relased by 2021, it wouldn't be until very late 2021, and that is still very unlikely. 😉
The good news for you is that you will have longer than you expected to enjoy TS4! 🙌 As for City Living, I always love when my Sims learn to appreciate spicy foods (because I love spicy foods) and learn to master chopsticks (because I am lousy at chopsticks unless it is to handle large pieces of vegetables or meat. 😃 I just can't seem to get the hang of eating chopsticks with rice 😳🤭 … but then again I usually prefer to eat my rice with a spoon so I can get every last grain! 🙌).
Hopefully later you can get Seasons and Get to Work! And I agree with @xJaimerTheGamerx that the Parenthood Game Pack is excellent for people who love to play with families in the game! 🥳 It makes your Sim families feel more like an actual family and not just a collection of different aged Sims living together! ❤️
Please update us on which you end up getting, as well as your thoughts on it! 😇
Here are a few parting pictures from City Living:
