I am glad we can actually live there.
We can also just choose to visit lots like in any other world if we don't want to live there or cheat and use retail, animal hospitals like a house and make it almost like a second home (I did that before with vampires who worked as Veterinarians. Didn't want to always go back and forth, so I had a place that was both work and home. They can sleep when closed or just keep other sims out until they were ready to work again. Since they had kids, also had plenty of things for them to do as well. Worked out pretty well.
Be nice if there was a hotel we can manage like that, but you can sort of fake it depending on how you set up the lot. If sims aren't working or taking the day off or have their own business, they can stay around as long as they wanted. So it works.
Sims 2 and 3 could just world hope as we can in Sims 4, can only travel to certain worlds.
