Do you have a favorite townie?

Probably Vlad. I like Yuki and Candy, too, but Vlad I think is fun to give a family to. He seems like the type to be at odds with everyone but his kids. And, honestly, is from my experience. He'll have a decent love bar with his wife and a red friendship bar with her, but a great relationship with the five daughters I gave him. Hardly anyone but the family can stand the evil daughter.

In terms of the random sims that are not part of the established population of a 'world' or the outer ring of supporting characters, no. Unlike TS2 which has an established cast of townies, they are randomly made each game, at least in mine. In TS2 there are Allyn Thomason, Christy Ianada, and a couple of others that are routinely snapped up to be wives for own sims.

Cameron Fletcher and Wolfgang Munch have been the most entertaining love interests to give my characters. Odd, in a good way :)
edit: those are Cameron's great-grandsons in the banner picture below

Vlad, J Huntington III, and Marcus Flex.

Edit: omg and Caleb!!! How could I forget Caleb?!

Oh in terms of premades? Candy and Yuki Behr have gone in completely different directions, one being a part of a loving gay family, with gay fathers-in-law and a wife. While Yuki has stayed at her home, and has just finished college and tentively has a boyfriend. (Somewhat ace, that Yuki) In terms of other households, I adore the dynamics of the Munch household, because so much of my dysfunctional relationship between Lucas and Wolfgang. And when I want to play a villianous character, I'm finding I'm having the most fun with Vladistraus Straud.

As awkward sunallergic hissing outcast I just very much sympathize with Vlad

so he is almost always included in my story in way or another

Bob and Jeb are kinda mood as well

oddly enough i don't think i relate with female sims so much even though I'm gal and i like quite many of them

maybe its just cause they all too cool or family oriented... :/

I'm fond of Darling Walsh. I always give her a makeover, though. Still tomboyish, just a little more stylish.

Lilith Vatore is my favorite townie. She's a vampire who when she starts is moved into a home that wasn't exactly built for her and her brother. Every time I play her she slowly finds herself, experimenting with makeup, clothes, and boys. Sometimes she'll realize that she doesn't want to be a vampire, other times she wants to have the most noble vampiric bloodline possible. She's apart of a group called The Vampiric Vambroughs who are a sworn group of vampires that will never drink human blood as long as they live. Lilith Vatore is such a gorgeous sim.

Vlad. Always Vlad. He must exist, always.

I really like Lilith too, there's a calm strength to her in my game that I've come to admire and she's a multi-faceted personality. I don't know how, but she has managed to stand out and I like watching her. I guess her wimpy, mortal-loving brother is okay sometimes, as an extension of his sister. :p

The Vatore siblings, Morgyn Ember and Claude René Duplantier Guidry. :)