What community lots do you have in your game?

I always have a few restaurants with different prices — the most expensive one with a “hottest spot in town” trait, a couple of middle-class restaurants with different menus, and a grungy cheap diner.
I also like community lots from EL, they are quite lively, and you can buy interesting stuff from yard sales tables sometimes.
Recently I built a playground with almost every activity for kids and toddlers possible, and I enjoy it, good for toddlers' playdates and kids' clubs meetings.

"somewhsome;c-17746469" wrote:
I always have a few restaurants with different prices — the most expensive one with a “hottest spot in town” trait, a couple of middle-class restaurants with different menus, and a grungy cheap diner.
I also like community lots from EL, they are quite lively, and you can buy interesting stuff from yard sales tables sometimes.
Recently I built a playground with almost every activity for kids and toddlers possible, and I enjoy it, good for toddlers' playdates and kids' clubs meetings.

A playground is an amazing idea :) I find that a lot of the parks aren't very toddler friendly so that is a great way for them to have something to do. I also like the idea of having restaurants at different price points because that is super realistic.

What a great thread. I love community lots and have more of those than residentials, and a long list planning them.

An axpick:
Prison
Orphanage/school for server sims
Many restaurants with different themes: vegan, halal, hipster, japanese, luxury etc
Bording school for children
University prepping school for YA
Lots of different museums for the collector sims to add to: space, nature, art etc
Bars oh so many
Night clubs with different themes and clientele in mind
Many retails, for sims who create mostly: Photo studio, IKEA for unlocks, fish for anglers, furniture from EL, bakery etc
Many uses of the Community Space from EL, fitting the world/neighborhood it is placed in
Factory
Arcade
Etc

I use the lot assignment creatively to make some things possible.

Plenty of themed restaurants, like Christmas, Halloween, etc. plus traditional ones. Also:

McDonald's
Starbucks
Gang headquarters
Nudist lake
Portrait studio
Bank
Movie theater
Mall
Daycare
Bridal Shop
Church
Homeless shelter
Community Support Center
Laundromat
Skating rink
Vampire themed blood donation center
and a Christmas market for buying Christmas trees.

I, too, have a prison but it's located in a sim's basement, so not exactly a community lot. Lol.

"MysticalSimmer;d-984758" wrote:
I've been working on my own personal save file and I've been trying to come up with community lot ideas. I find that the sims has a ton of bars/clubs. So what else do you put in your game so that your sims actually have something to go do?

I always have bars, a spa, an academy, several restaurants (from cheap to expensive, from vegetarian to fish only or meat only...), a pool, a naturist beach, a regular beach, a church for weddings and "funerals", a prison where i hold my cleptomaniacs that got caught, a bank so that robbers can easily access the vaults, a nighclub, an arcade, a bowling place, a karaoke bar, several museums with different themes...

"IceyJ;c-17746506" wrote:
Plenty of themed restaurants, like Christmas, Halloween, etc. plus traditional ones. Also:

McDonald's
Starbucks
Gang headquarters
Nudist lake
Portrait studio
Bank
Movie theater
Mall
Daycare
Bridal Shop
Church
Homeless shelter
Community Support Center
Laundromat
Skating rink
Vampire themed blood donation center
and a Christmas market for buying Christmas trees.

I, too, have a prison but it's located in a sim's basement, so not exactly a community lot. Lol.

I love the idea of a laundromat, bridal shop, and Christmas market :)

Oh, I like the nudist beach! That lot trait, Act Naturally, or whatever it is called, is one of my favourites.
I have it in my sauna wood tarn lot in Granite Falls; and my partly excavated viking grave lot with a view of the Middle Earth Snake in Windenburg; and in my traditional, in the suggestive sense, Health Club Spa in Del Sol Valley etc.

In locations thin on resources, I have a resource center for stuff I can't or don't want to have on my sims' home lots. I like tiny homes so the resource centers come in handy. I like restaurants and bowling alleys too. I also have a spa that has the clothing-optional trait (hilarious :D) and an indoor park so kids can go in any season.

Oh, that’s the name, Clothing Optional! The sims certainly seem to take advantage of the option, I've yet to see anyone keep their clothes on. Perhaps the Proper trait from SE will make them less inclined to bare it all.

That’s a good idea, of having a resource center. I like everything to be thematically geared, so place out all the useful objects but in accordance with different lots' purposes, to make them worth visiting for different sims.

various shops (ran by your pcs if you play rotationally), cafes, bakery, abandoned hideout, library, various restaurants, cemetery. Actually here are some custom lot traits that may give you some ideas :) https://kiarasims4mods.home.blog/traits/lot-traits/