Where do you take your Sims (except Newcrest)

wherever they feel like going...clubs, bars, lounges, spas, parks and so on, I have several differently themed bars, lounges and clubs, like the Opera, and old theater, a sorta "gamer"-bar (with gaming consoles, PCs and such), and it depends on the sims character, the bookworm goes primarily to libraries or book cafes, dog owners like parks to bring their doggos, my poetic sim goes to lounges, bars or cafes that have a microphone to read from his poetry book, musicians also tend to go to lounges and anywhere I build a stage to perform, my DJ of course preferrs clubs.
For dates it also depends, I like restaurants for special occasions, otherwise more like lounges.
I have clubs of friends who gather at clubs or have house parties, clubs of spellcasters who gather in the woods to cast spells, discuss magic and dance arround fire.....

I don't chose by world in general but I do prefer the sims visiting venues close to them if they can.