Are you "cottage living" outside HOB?
I adore Hensford and have sims doing the cottage living and simple life there but I have other Gardner sims who I call my desert dwellers and would love to live the same way but for me they don't fit ...
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I love HoB, but before CL was even announced I had already decided I wanted to create "farming/cottage life"- related locations. I originally used Willow Creek and Newcrest for that purpose (after bulldozing all existing lots), then parts of Brindletown Bay and Windenburg (in particular Crumbling Island and the countryside).
Crumbling Island is my favourite location, because after deleting all existing lots I could really personalise it and turn it into a secluded, gardening paradise for my family as there are no other inhabitants on it. The only residential lot is my family's small cottage, the other lots are marked as "generic" and feature orchards or ruins (including a shipwreck site).
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51338866306_883cd661be.jpgcrumbling island by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51339869435_312bac2ca6_w.jpgcottage by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51338866191_b21e46c21f_w.jpgshipwreck by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
The public orchard (including every pre-CL plant):
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51326834538_fe953fe0c1_w.jpgorchard by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
One of the ruins sites:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51325940507_26a15312e3.jpgRuins by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
There is a wishing well in this lot, and the family goes there to make offerings, in hope of receiving a blessing. I like the idea of this family living in communion with nature away from other people and worshipping the old spirits and fertility deities... in a chill, genuine way.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51327373704_d152e01e50.jpgaltar by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51327373689_04b5899a9a_w.jpgruins / altar by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51339084898_f1ef21efee_w.jpgHillfort by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
I'm super-reluctant to make them move to HoB because the uninhabited island is so special for them. And the close-knitted, gossipy community in HoB would be overwhelming for them, they like being on their own.
So I created other Sims to play in HoB.
Crumbling Island is my favourite location, because after deleting all existing lots I could really personalise it and turn it into a secluded, gardening paradise for my family as there are no other inhabitants on it. The only residential lot is my family's small cottage, the other lots are marked as "generic" and feature orchards or ruins (including a shipwreck site).
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51338866306_883cd661be.jpgcrumbling island by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51339869435_312bac2ca6_w.jpgcottage by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51338866191_b21e46c21f_w.jpgshipwreck by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
The public orchard (including every pre-CL plant):
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51326834538_fe953fe0c1_w.jpgorchard by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
One of the ruins sites:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51325940507_26a15312e3.jpgRuins by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
There is a wishing well in this lot, and the family goes there to make offerings, in hope of receiving a blessing. I like the idea of this family living in communion with nature away from other people and worshipping the old spirits and fertility deities... in a chill, genuine way.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51327373704_d152e01e50.jpgaltar by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51327373689_04b5899a9a_w.jpgruins / altar by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51339084898_f1ef21efee_w.jpgHillfort by le TARDISgrade, on Flickr
I'm super-reluctant to make them move to HoB because the uninhabited island is so special for them. And the close-knitted, gossipy community in HoB would be overwhelming for them, they like being on their own.
So I created other Sims to play in HoB.
