Are you "cottage living" outside HOB?

@ChampandGirlie I oddly don't have the veggies issues thankfully. Still, like you I enjoy a harder game and my gardening sims and floral sims could use a little challenge. I'm trying to personalize the simple living to sims I feel it fits. Some of my sims don't feel "simple" and I see them on the go while others tend to fill time painting and prefer small groups. And yet not all look as if they belong in HOB so all of these insights and ideas are incredibly helpful before I just bulldoze at random