Chestnut Ridge is not in the American Southwest

"Amapola76;c-18295837" wrote:

"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.

Corrected my headline. I meant southwest!

Yeah, Montana was meantioned in the Livestream, so I'm thinking also bits of Utah, the Dakotas, Colorado, Wyoming, Oaklahoma with maybe a bit of the northern edges of Nevada/New Mexico/Arizona (which is the "southwest" but north enough and at high enough elevations that snow isn't out of the question.)

Usually the devs draw inspiration from different places and don't make a direct copy.

Upper deserts can be very cold in the winter. The problem is that deserts don’t get much precipitation, that’s why you don’t see much snow. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t snow in the mountains around a dersert because if most certainly does in most cases, at least in the southwest. In the southwest you can find oceans, snowy mountains, deserts, and agricultural valleys within 25-100 or so miles of each other. I live in such an area in Southern California.

Mexicans are part Indian and part Spanish. When the Spanish came to the Americas most interbred with Indians. There are reservations around the Grand Canyon. In Arizona there are Rock mountains/ Plateaus with ancient homes built within the curve of the mountains to protect the Indians from the sun and heat part of the day. It’s Ingenious how they built homes there, they always inspire awe in me when we drive by them.

This pack does definitely make me think of Arizona…..

Having lived in the Tucson area, in winter, can say this is not the geographic features or weather. The place is far too green & foresty and the reported snow is not a Sonora thing. I'll vote for the more northerly and higher up Colorado.

To me, Oasis Springs is the Phoenix area or southern Arizona. I guess Strangerville is supposed to be Roswell more or less, and I was hoping Chestnut Ridge would be another hot desert area because I like to limit my Sims' traveling to areas that seem like they would be geographically close, unless they actually take a vacation. But now I think Chestnut Ridge is probably Colorado.

All I can say is that is does snow in Phoeniz, AZ. Chew on that one for a moment. There are two types of desert; High and Low. High deserts get snow, Low, not so much. But, I agree, Chestnut Ridge? doesn't look very American Southwest at all. I have to agree with @elanorbreton, it's Sim Land and likely has elements from around this RL world we call Earth. Or Montana as somebody mentioned above. I never saw the Live-Stream I was on the road that day.

This is an interesting read. As someone not from the USA I remember when I visited Las Vegas and told on a tour it snows there in the winter. I found it hard to believe that a desert place can get snow. When I went to Vegas it was at Halloween and over 30C which is hotter then most summers where I live.

My best guess is northern Nevada or southern Utah for the terrain, but the weather sure looks like Colorado or Montana.

I lived in Vegas for 20 years and it does snow, on occasion. It only lasts a day, it's pretty though.

I get the vibe of the Northwest and upper MidWestern areas...Wyoming, Montana, Idaho. It doesn't matter really, very nice scenery.