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Italian Vineyards - Grow grapes and produce white, red, pink and fizzy nectar as well as elixirs with fancy names like Party Animal, Evening Romance, Chat All Night, Queen Bee, Sleeping Beauty and Nature Calls. Grow wheat and olives, make pasta, canned olives, olive oil. Buy a pizza oven and make your own pizza and bread. Became a shoe and perfume designer and create new shoe designs and perfumes. Organize a BIG wedding (or a funeral) and don't forget to invite all your aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and neighbours, take beautiful photos and create beautiful memories to last a lifetime. Buy a Vespa scooter and travel the countryside.
Greek Islands - Grow oranges and lemons and make lemon juice and lemonade. Find marble stones and carve beautiful statues and furniture for your house. Study astronomy. Learn to build a boat and row down the river Styx until you reach the entrance to the Underworld. You may need to bribe the gatekeeper. Find Grimmy or whoever you're looking for.
Scottish Highlands - You have reached a realm of history and magic filled with medieval castles and farms. You can raise farm animals like chickens, sheep, pigs and horses. You can collect wool from the sheep and use it to make beautiful tartans. You can collect milk from the sheep and make cheese. You can now become an blacksmith and create horse shoes and swords. Creative sims can use the pottery wheel to create a lovely tea set to serve afternoon tea in and different flower vases and pots to display flowers in. Life may sound a bit boring and quiet, but every year there is the medieval festival where you can take part in medieval traditions like sword duels, archery contests, pie eating contests, highland dances. Create a family tree and document important events in your family ancestry.
Chinese Countryside - Life is quiet in the countryside. You wake up early when the rooster first starts singing, then either go to work in the city or do chores around the house. You are particularly busy as you have started taking care of silk worms and they demand a lot of mulberry leaves to feed on. You like the worms because they give you silk you use to weave beautiful carpets, drapes and clothes. You can grow fruits like watermelon, kaki, lychee, and jackfruit, and sometimes you find ginseng roots which you use to make medicine and tea. When you are bored, you like to paint on silk, and if you have any jade or other semi precious stones, you like to carve them into beautiful chess boards and make jewellery. You like to play go with your friends and visit festivals. Your favourite festival is the ice festival where you get to carve and admire ice sculptures. You also love the light festival, for the beautiful lanterns and light displays. On New Year's day you like to get together with your family and friends, share gifts of oranges and money and read your horoscopes for the year ahead. If anyone would like to visit your neighbourhood, there are tourist attractions nearby like the Great Wall and the Old Palace with the beautiful gardens full of magnolia trees. You can eat at the local restaurants, have jasmine tea at the tea house, or eat street food. Tourists can buy souvenirs like T-shirts, fortune cookies, and various counterfeit merchandise.
Spanish City - Visit this vibrant city with beautiful architecture, cafes, restaurants plazas and shopping malls. Learn how to build spiral stairs, stages, garages, gorgeous arches and vaulted ceilings. Learn to play flamenco guitar and dance tango. Don't drink too much sangria. Shop till you drop, but make sure to pay back your credit cards or the repo man might visit you.
Swiss Mountain Town - Learn to ski and snowboard during the winter, take the chair lift and eat at the restaurant located at the top of the mountain. Learn grandma's chocolate recipe and create bonbons and tablets of chocolate that you can gift or sell in your very own souvenir store. If you are a handy you can learn the art of making wooden toys or even the ancient craft of watchmaking and create beautiful time pieces for the wrists, the fire mantle and even cuckoo clocks. No more going late to work or class. In autumn you can visit the Harvest festival for some fluffy brew and bagels and accordion singing, and in the winter you can visit the Winter festival where you can buy tasty treats and gifts for your family and friends.
Brazilian Beach Town - Enroll in the Samba school and participate in the Samba festival taking part every year. Do aerobics and capoeira and make sure you keep your body fit. Get a job as a swimsuit model, take part in photo shoots and model swimsuits in fashion shows. In your spare time you can play volleyball at the beach, or visit the beauty shops to have a manicure, pedicure, hairdo and facials to prepare for your next photo shoot. Alternatively, you can become a fashion journalist/photographer and write articles for fashion magazines.
Costa Rican Rainforest - Luxuriant jungles teeming with wildlife, golden beaches and clear waters await you. Rent a room at the hotel or a B&B, or even better run a hotel. Relax in a hammock on the beach, go for a round of mini golf, or visit the rainforest. Feed and raise parakeets, toucans and flamingoes. One day you find a strange egg in the jungle, one that you have never seen before. You take it home with you and hatch it in your hatchery equipment only to discover a baby DRAGON. You are intrigued and after further search in the jungle, you discover a hidden area teeming with dragons. You can't wait to share your discovery with the world.
South African City - Become a jeweler and create beautiful rings, earrings, bracelets and necklaces. However, the burglar makes a come back and you need to buy an alarm and survey equipment for your shop. For fun you can go on safaris and take pictures of wild animals. If wild animals don't take your fancy, you can visit Sun City Casino for some gambling, pocker, blackjak, roulette, slot machines. Try not to cheat at roulette, or you may spend some time in prison. You can become a tattoo artist and open your very own tattoo shop for temporary and permanent tattoos.
Korean City - Find fame as a singer, alone or in a group. Appear on TV and SimTube, engage with the fans, sell branded T-shirts and CDs with your music on. Find a good surgeon and get some aesthetic surgery like bigger nose and thinner lips, pointy ears and even a sex change. hairy sims can now opt for laser hair removal, or die their hair in funky colours. Buy comic magazine and collect even more my sims trophies action figures.
ALTERNATIVELY - You live in a city where everything is rationed, food, electricity, water, TV/radio programmes, the internet etc. You can only get certain haircuts. You need to worship dear leader and have a festival in his honour every year where you sing patriotic songs, alone or in a group. You will recognize him when you see him because his pictures will adorn all buildings. You can no longer shop from the fridge, now you need to grow your own food or catch your own fish if you want to eat. You can go to the supermarket to buy some basic ingredients but there are not that many, so now you need to learn how to cook only for the amount of sims in the house. Due to the food shortages, sims have learnt to enjoy family meals together and come and eat together when they are called. If you are a daredevil, you can deface pictures of dear leader. You can now get a job as a nuclear scientist.