For those of you who have city living, how often do you find yourself moving a new save into an apartment? I personally always place my new families in an actual house. I have had city living since it came out, and only once have I actually placed a new sim into an apartment, and she was a single sim and I only did it because I had just gotten CL. I find that I prefer having families living in a house so they can have a backyard, a pool, a jungle gym for the kids, and I find it a better experience for seasons because you can have decorations on the outside of your house, and rake leaves in the fall, play in the mud, have snowball fights in the winter. Currently I have just moved a single mom and her teen daughter into an apartment, but that was only after living in a bungalow while the daughter was a toddler, and a kid. So, how often do you really live in San Myshuno?

Most of my Sims live there. I dont like the apartments so much but the city feels more alive because of the food stands the musicians and the festivals.

Don’t really use them that much. I’ll use one at the start of a new sim game but other than that I move out. I like how the city feels alive but I keep getting those noisy neighbour events and random sims walking into my apartment uninvited, it gets old eventually.

I only ever have one single household per apartment complex, the other flats are empty. Even if my sims start out with neighbors, those neighbors accuse them of things they never did and then I remove them for violating peace in the house. I also try not to put famous sims into apartments, because there have been problems with fame decay and opportunities in the past. That said, only two of my apartments dwelling families are part of my rotation, the others are fillers that I play only occasionally.

@Chazzzy that's awesome! I played a couple who started in a roach infested apartment and the guy had the jealous trait, he ended up chucking his new wife out onto the streets. She went to work as a live-in nanny for the Bjergsens and was eventually able to afford a lovely house of her own. Her ex-husband lived his whole life alone in the roach infested apartment :D I now play on rotation so I like to have variety and one of my households lives in an apartment in the district with the basketball outside (can never remember what it is - spice district, maybe?) I enjoy playing them except when the neighbours make a racket at night and they can't sleep.

All the time! I tend not to play a lot of families, so apartments suit my Sims just fine.

How often do you live in an apartment?

68 Replies

TTNcreates
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Most of my Sims live there. I dont like the apartments so much but the city feels more alive because of the food stands the musicians and the festivals.
UnknownGamer85
6 years ago
Don’t really use them that much. I’ll use one at the start of a new sim game but other than that I move out. I like how the city feels alive but I keep getting those noisy neighbour events and random sims walking into my apartment uninvited, it gets old eventually.
EnkiSchmidt
Hero
6 years ago
I only ever have one single household per apartment complex, the other flats are empty. Even if my sims start out with neighbors, those neighbors accuse them of things they never did and then I remove them for violating peace in the house. I also try not to put famous sims into apartments, because there have been problems with fame decay and opportunities in the past.

That said, only two of my apartments dwelling families are part of my rotation, the others are fillers that I play only occasionally.
elliebreton
Legend
6 years ago
@Chazzzy that's awesome! I played a couple who started in a roach infested apartment and the guy had the jealous trait, he ended up chucking his new wife out onto the streets. She went to work as a live-in nanny for the Bjergsens and was eventually able to afford a lovely house of her own. Her ex-husband lived his whole life alone in the roach infested apartment :D

I now play on rotation so I like to have variety and one of my households lives in an apartment in the district with the basketball outside (can never remember what it is - spice district, maybe?) I enjoy playing them except when the neighbours make a racket at night and they can't sleep.
ryttu3k
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
All the time! I tend not to play a lot of families, so apartments suit my Sims just fine.
evilyn_37
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
Pretty often. I play single sims and families in apartments. Now that we have roommates I can't wait to have a sim living in an apartment. I tend to start out in 2B jasmine Suites or 930 Medina Studios.
PinkBookGirl
6 years ago
A lot. I love the challenge of making a set space work for a family, I love having close neighbors, and I love the vibrancy of the neighborhoods (especially Spice Market).
wildirishbanshee
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I don't think I've ever played a sim in an apartment. I've visited them but never played them.
amber_ilumire
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
All the time, with maybe one game as the exception. CL is my favourite pack and San Myshuno is my favourite world, so I love having my sims live there. Apartments are one of the best features imo.
ChampandGirlie
Seasoned Ace
6 years ago
I have a bunch of households in SM. I haven't been playing them as much lately because I have many households. Right now, I've been playing my first few students in DU. The household I'm playing will graduate in a few days and then I'll start those sims in the rest of their lives. I'll switch after they are settled in and I have some ideas of what I'll do after that.

I'm not specifically planning to play the SM households soon but I owe a few of them visits. I will definitely play them again at some point. I'll admit that I'm attached to some other households probably more so.

I rotate between all of the worlds. I'm probably most attached to some of my households in Willow Creek but don't read too much into that. I spend time in all of the worlds.