How often do you move?

Two at the most - one house while they are single (or stay with parents) and a new house if they get married usually.

The most I might move a family would be twice, but only if their first home can not be updated to fit the family. I'm this way because in real life I've moved 77 times, 64 of those was when I was still living with my parents. My final move was almost 11 years ago. I'm done with moving, thus my sims don't move very often either.

2-3 times. Guess it depends on the Sim(s) and the storylines playing out. For the most part, my children Sims will grow up and move out on their own. Then they oftentimes move again when they are starting their own family.

My Sims never move unless a Sim I like better wants the house. I just expand the original house. My main family started with a simple one-bedroom house in Strangerville that has been gradually updated to three floors above ground and two floors below. I love seeing their homes grow and change almost as much as I love seeing the Sims themselves grow and change!

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If they move, it is only because they moved on their own or outgrew where they were living.

I use some of the CL apartments as "starter apartments" that they can move in and out of as they "find themselves". I like the ease of having them pre-furnished for those who move in.

Because I dislike redecorating empty houses, I tend to keep them in an existing house or move someone else in before I move them out. I know there's the option to keep or sell furniture but I tend to pick the wrong one.

There are always exceptions. It just depends on if they've really "clicked" with the house. Most do if they've moved past the starter apartment phase.

As for starter homes, I've renovated and expanded some of those with more floors and space. Single Streamlet and Agave Abode are both examples of that. My Single Streamlet has 3 floors, a finished basement with a laundry area, a toddler play area and a bedroom for a teen, 3 bathrooms and 4 bedrooms if you count the basement. The original bedroom is a den.

Agave Abode perfectly fits the family that lives there aside from having little actual yard.

I go between the worlds and they travel easily to community spaces in most of them (allowing for realism with vacations and remote worlds), but moves tend to be big deals for them beyond the first move out on their own. As the world fills up, they'll compete for real estate and some will need to move away, with new sims also moving in to interact with those that stay.

So far I've only moved a child out once. I kind of liked having three generations in the same house. More people meant more income and more attention for the kids, so their needs were better balanced.

It all depends on which game save I'm playing. In my Ancestral game save my sixth great-grandparents moved about every three years, which continued after their really huge move 300 miles to the southwest of the Shenandoah Valley, VA. He purchased a great deal of land in what became East Tennessee, and he may have been attempting to keep a few steps ahead of his enemies, too. So, they moved fairly frequently. It seemed they had their first two children in that one-room cabin they started out in. Then he purchased 378 acres from his father to create the town of New Market, VA. Their next three children were born there, in 1766 and abt. 1768, and 1770 then they moved further north and their next two children were born in Millerstown. Then they moved to western North Carolina, babe-in-arms and all. :open_mouth: I think my ggggggreat-grandfather had a bad case of the wanderlust. They moved often there, too. Moving then wasn't at all like now, so you can imagine packing up all of your household goods and furnishings, travel in a wagon over very rough, (not really roads, but bumpy dirt lanes) to the next location, just to restart the kitchen garden and that all-too-important garden of flax (for linen-making) and in between everything else, try to squeeze in lessons for the children.

In my other game save my celebrity Sim moves from his parents house to live with his sister and brother-in-law for a time, then moves into his own mansion. He sticks there, since he had the placed built for him.

I also learned when playing Sims3, if my Sims stayed in the same place all of the time, they were less subject to experiencing meteor strikes, for instance. So, it's a toss-up which is the best way to go.

I may move them a handful of times. New YA sims often start out in an apartment. Then they move to 2-bedroom house when they're about to start or expand their family. Then if they get really wealthy they'll move again. I tend to get bored playing only one lot all the time (the hard part about legacies for me).

Depends. Once I get to a certain point in a legacy where I have good income I tend to build a nice house and keep them there for a generation or two. But starting out I may move twice if I need a lot upgrade. Usually I don’t move unless I need to in a save or I want a change of scenery. I will say in a save I have where the family has spent their life in San Myshuno they have moved three times. That’s the most I think I’ve ever moved in a sims lifetime.