How often do you move?

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.