Do you have a real state or country of where your Sims live in?

"EnkiSchmidt;c-18178251" wrote:
I used to create my own fictional settings, because I enjoy worldbuilding.

But as of late my sims live in the near future in Detroit/USA and Windsor/Canada. I don't care for what the vegetation suggests, for example Del Sol Valley is needed to be part of Detroit, because the game lacks in urban neighborhoods. I force snow in Del Sol Valley with mods and if someone asks about the palm trees, then my sims will tell you "Yeah, a former Mayor thought it was a good idea to plant them here."

I tried to recreate Belle Isle on Windenburg island (I put the abandoned zoo, the aquarium with the speakeasy basement, the conservatory and the James Scott Memorial fountain) and for my YAs that attend the MIT in Cambridge I also built a smaller version of The Sponge dorm. But other than that I'm not faithful to the architecture, I just use lot names like "Corktown", "Sherwood Forest" and "Michigan Drive" without trying to make them look the part.

Sulani and Selvadorada I kept as fictional places with their own government and history, to scratch the worldbuilding itch.

Detroit ??? there’s a simmer that made some lots on the gallery modeled after Detroit homes. They’re abandoned fixer-uppers but the style reminds me of home. I used them
for a rags to riches challenge. Now I want to make a coney island although it would be missing hotdogs and fries smothered in chili and cheese. Don’t mind me, I just love when people show love to my hometown. I’d love to see a picture of your Belle Isle though.

In my head I associate the various worlds with certain places. Willow Creek, Newcrest and Magnolia Promenade are in Louisiana. Oasis Springs is a mix of Nevada and New Mexico. Strangerville is in Utah/Arizona. Glimmerbrook and Moonlight Mills are in Washington State, Copperdale is northern Oregon, kind of Astoria. Windenburg is a mix of some town in Bavaria and Stockholm. Brindleton Bay is in Maine. San Myshuno is harder to specifically place because it has elements of most big cities, personally I feel due to the elevated train and some of the apartments its more New York to me. Del Sol Valley is clearly Los Angeles. Henford on Bagley is Thorton Le Dale (a historical tourist trap in Yorkshire which is full of thatched houses), it also looks like parts of Minehead in Somerset.

From a building point of view I find it better to think of them as entirely unique places in some alternate reality, otherwise I fall in to the trap of trying to get the whole aesthetic to match which is often frustrating when you have all the unremovable set dressing houses.