Chestnut Ridge is not in the American Southwest

Sim Land ?

"pearlbh;d-1010265" wrote:
It gets cold and snows. So where is this supposed to be, more like the plains? Colorado?

No, it's certainly not the southeast and I don't think anyone ever suggested it was supposed to be. It's southwest-inspired, all the way.

North American deserts (including the southwest) can get snow, it just depends on what altitude they're sitting at. All of the high altitude regions (and some of the mid to lower altitude regions too) all get snow in the winter.

https://drivinvibin.com/2021/10/13/snow-southwest/

It definitely snows in the American Southwest.

It doesn't feel very Southwestern though.

If it was - it would be a tribrid between 'Anglo-Cowboy culture', Native American culture, and Mexican culture - with the Indigenous and Mexican aspects being heavily intertwined. It's only got the first two. So it actually does feel more like it's in the Southeast - Oklahoma. Or the midwest on the Great Plains.

When I lived in the Southwest, everybody on the Rez spoke Spanish, and everybody in the Mexican part of town (which was most of town outside of a city) spoke Navajo. ;)

I've got family in Oklahoma though - that has ended up marrying back in with Cherokee, and they way they describe things fits more with what I see in Chestnut Ridge.

The architecture of the build mode items is NOT very Southwest, nor are the CAS items. But they all do seem to fit either Great Plains (midwest) or Oklahoma (southeast).


To those of you who are in Europe and wondering "what's the difference?" - just replace "Mexico / Southwest" with Ireland / Northern Ireland, "Great Plains" with "Scottish", and "Southeast with "Welsh", and then roll your eyes when an American asks "what's the difference?" :wink:

I think in the livestream they had mentioned they were inspired by Montana but I can't remember exactly. If someone wants to skip through the recording to find the clip. :/

"Jyotai;c-18295937" wrote:
So it actually does feel more like it's in the Southeast - Oklahoma.

I'll totally defer to you on the Southwest. But Oklahoma is no kind of way in the southeast.

(It's either midwestern or South Central, depending on who you ask. But not southeastern.)

I don't have the pack yet but it certainly looks like Arches National Park in Utah - which does get snow as far as I know. (and isn't in the southeast)

Well it isn't real there have been complaints from people wanting snow in the desert so they probably just added it in to offer variety.

It does snow in the desert, but rarely. Just looked it up and found out even the Sahara Desert can snow! The article said the Sahara is an extremely hot and arid desert but has gotten snow at times over past decades, the last time in February of 2022. They don't get a lot of snow and it disappears in a day.