Which Sims 4 worlds resemble real places?
This is my interpretation in how each world resembles a real place and why. I linked screenshots of each world for comparison :smile: What is your interpretation? Do you live in one of these real...
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I play in a regional style, which means my saves are grouped into regions sims live in. Sims can travel to their own region without taking a vacation, but otherwise they must take a vacation. For the most part, I group these regions into where I think the cities are meant to be, with some exceptions.
My regions are:
New Orleans/Suburban New Orleans:
Willow Creek and Magnolia Promenade. I agree that the graphics and prop houses also suggest that Newcrest is NoLa, but that would make this region unfairly big so I don't include it.
Suburban Illinois (outside of Chicago):
Newcrest. Again, fully knowing it has the NoLa style but just choosing to ignore.
Hudson River Area:
San Myshuno standing in for NYC even thought it feels like a mishmash of NYC, SF, and Hong Kong
Copperdale standing in for any of the small towns upriver from NYC: Poughkeepsie, Saratoga Springs, etc. I think Copperdale could really be any number of places but I know that team was heavily influenced by the show Riverdale and the town of Riverdale is meant to be along the Hudson River.
New England:
Brindleton Bay stands for any number of NE towns in Maine or Massachusetts
I actually plop Forgotten Hollow here too even though I know it's meant to be somewhere in Eastern Europe. Since I play in a very realistic style, I boot the vampires out and turn it into essentially a Salem, Mass type of place that is very popular with tourists during Spooky season.
The Southwest:
Oasis Springs standing in for Albuquerque
Strangerville standing in for a town in northern Arizona or southern Utah
California:
Granite Falls stands for Yosemite in my game
Glimmerbrook is a mountain town outside of Yosemite where park rangers live and folks pick up their Winterfest trees
Del Sol Valley stands in for LA though as a current LA resident--Sims team, what were you thinking giving this metropolis like 6 lots lol
PNW:
Evergreen Harbor and Moonwood Mill are neighbors in my game, both cities clustered in either Washington State or British Columbia
The UK:
Having visited the UK quite a bit I feel these are almost the easiest to map over. Britechester is very clearly meant to be "Oxfordlike" at the very least, and Henford on Bagley is meant to be the Cotswolds, which are a very lovely cluster of villages not too far from Oxford. So I just make that a very tight knit region. I have a few Britechester professors that live in the Henford country estates.
Europe:
It's a bit of stretch to have these be one region but this is all pretend so...
Windenburg--Windenburg has pieces of it that are obviously meant to be Bavaria in southern Germany but other pieces that are obviously meant to be Copenhagen or another Scandinavian city. I was in Copenhagen this year and was walking in a park with pink trees next to it and had a very "OMG, this is meant to be Hare Square park!" thought which I kept to myself. So since Windberg is so big I actually pretend the top half ( the pastoral neighborhood and the big town square) is Germany and the bottom half (the more modern town square with the pool and gym and the crumbling isle) is Denmark.
Tartosa: I similarly split these up--the bottom half has Greek architecture and the top has Italian/Spanish influenced architecture.
Selvadorada, Mt. Komorebi and Sulani are on their own, they do not have regions. I'm pretty sure that Mt.Komorebi is supposed to be Northern Japan, for example Sapporo, where the ski resorts are. I'm going there next year and I'm so excited to see it IRL. Sulani reminds me a lot of Kauai. I think Selvadorada is probably any Amazonian bordering country (Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela) etc.
My regions are:
New Orleans/Suburban New Orleans:
Willow Creek and Magnolia Promenade. I agree that the graphics and prop houses also suggest that Newcrest is NoLa, but that would make this region unfairly big so I don't include it.
Suburban Illinois (outside of Chicago):
Newcrest. Again, fully knowing it has the NoLa style but just choosing to ignore.
Hudson River Area:
San Myshuno standing in for NYC even thought it feels like a mishmash of NYC, SF, and Hong Kong
Copperdale standing in for any of the small towns upriver from NYC: Poughkeepsie, Saratoga Springs, etc. I think Copperdale could really be any number of places but I know that team was heavily influenced by the show Riverdale and the town of Riverdale is meant to be along the Hudson River.
New England:
Brindleton Bay stands for any number of NE towns in Maine or Massachusetts
I actually plop Forgotten Hollow here too even though I know it's meant to be somewhere in Eastern Europe. Since I play in a very realistic style, I boot the vampires out and turn it into essentially a Salem, Mass type of place that is very popular with tourists during Spooky season.
The Southwest:
Oasis Springs standing in for Albuquerque
Strangerville standing in for a town in northern Arizona or southern Utah
California:
Granite Falls stands for Yosemite in my game
Glimmerbrook is a mountain town outside of Yosemite where park rangers live and folks pick up their Winterfest trees
Del Sol Valley stands in for LA though as a current LA resident--Sims team, what were you thinking giving this metropolis like 6 lots lol
PNW:
Evergreen Harbor and Moonwood Mill are neighbors in my game, both cities clustered in either Washington State or British Columbia
The UK:
Having visited the UK quite a bit I feel these are almost the easiest to map over. Britechester is very clearly meant to be "Oxfordlike" at the very least, and Henford on Bagley is meant to be the Cotswolds, which are a very lovely cluster of villages not too far from Oxford. So I just make that a very tight knit region. I have a few Britechester professors that live in the Henford country estates.
Europe:
It's a bit of stretch to have these be one region but this is all pretend so...
Windenburg--Windenburg has pieces of it that are obviously meant to be Bavaria in southern Germany but other pieces that are obviously meant to be Copenhagen or another Scandinavian city. I was in Copenhagen this year and was walking in a park with pink trees next to it and had a very "OMG, this is meant to be Hare Square park!" thought which I kept to myself. So since Windberg is so big I actually pretend the top half ( the pastoral neighborhood and the big town square) is Germany and the bottom half (the more modern town square with the pool and gym and the crumbling isle) is Denmark.
Tartosa: I similarly split these up--the bottom half has Greek architecture and the top has Italian/Spanish influenced architecture.
Selvadorada, Mt. Komorebi and Sulani are on their own, they do not have regions. I'm pretty sure that Mt.Komorebi is supposed to be Northern Japan, for example Sapporo, where the ski resorts are. I'm going there next year and I'm so excited to see it IRL. Sulani reminds me a lot of Kauai. I think Selvadorada is probably any Amazonian bordering country (Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela) etc.
