Fairfield Metropolitan Area

[Simian30125 0]

          This is the future site of the town of Bailey. This is where the two rivers meet and become one. The one in the upper left corner is the Bailey River, named for the famous SimNation explorer George Bailey who discovered this area in 1900. The other river, which is the main river is the Etowah River (a local river near me here in Georgia), which was named after a local tribe of Indians.

          This is several years later (sorry, I wanted to get it nicely developed before I took a picture) as the town has grown into a nice place. This is a night shot that shows the nice, small town, business district which is three blocks long and two blocks wide. The park you see on the right side of the picture is Observatory Park, named for the Observatory which is obviously located in the park itself.

          This picture was taken in the mid-1960s. This is the newly built Northwood Estates, a neighborhood that was designed after the city's planning commissioner Thad Nameless returned from a recent trip to the big city of Fairfield. Upon his return he proclaimed "This housing development design of the FUTURE!! Fairfield which until a few years ago was a small town like us started to build these on the outskirts of its own city limits and Sims from all over are flocking to them in droves!"

          Taken in late 1969, this picture shows how things are quickly beginning to change. The major roads into and out of Bailey have been upgraded to four-lane highways (this was accomplished so quickly by working day and night for four years, a move that ultimately cost the city it's highway crew due to anger over long hours and low pay). You can see how downtown has gotten nicer, a new apartment building has gone up nearby and the town has attracted the major American retailers Wal-Mart and K-Mart. (Both stores had resided in their current locations for years before until the highways were widened, then both stores were torn down and rebuilt in the same locations.)

That is all for now, hope to have more soon.

 

In between my first city journal (Riverside) and this one I had an experimental city based on Miami that turned out to be the largest city I've ever built, unfortunately after I'd built it up I didn't care for the map design I had used as it posed some major problems and thus deleted it. Sorry to go off topic there lol.

I also have a partial list of downloads from the Site Exchange and would like to thank the following: (If you see something in my city that was your upload let me know so I can give you credit, don't want to offend anyone.)

NAM

Realistic Water V1 By Joerg And Teirusu

by karybdis

Industry Quadrupler V2.1

by toroca

Additional God Mode Terrain Tools

by rybolton

Bridge Height Mod

by joerg

Functional Landmarks Complete Set V1.0

by toroca

Street Cul-de-sac Mod

by Qurlix

Trolca's Street Modd

by Trolca

Farming Jobs Multiplier

by ralphaelninja

ZoningMod

by Tropod

SmalltownUSA Falers And Sebalds

by JBSimio

Transamerica Pyramid

by ed_diaz

American Civil War Cemetary V10

by jbbry232

 Burlington Shopping Plaza

by Bobbo662

Shopping Center Parking Pack 4 And More

by sc4jeeks

Large Shopping Center

by simgoober

Strip Mall Shopping Center 1

by simgoober

Nexis Grand Shopping Center

by mrbisonm

JBM Building Props Volume 2

by pmiller19574

West Eaton Shopping Square

by jhipolito

Sears Grand

by Bobbo662

BSC MEGA Props SG Vol 01

by simgoober

WalMart Stores Inc

by Bobbo662

Kmart

by budweiserdude23

Circuit City By B62

by Bobbo662

BJs Wholesale Club

by Bobbo662

Frys Electronics

by Bobbo662

Sams Club

by Bobbo662

Super Target

by Bobbo662

Applebees

by kevdan25

PEG Seasonal Woods V206b

by pegasus

Urban Beautification Pack Volume 1

by soldyne

Sym Prod DEV Prop Pack VOL 1

by pmiller19574

BSC Parks V2 Texture Set

by deadwoods

BSC Parks V2 Base Set

by deadwoods

BSC BAT Props BLS Floral Vol01

by barbyw

(One more thing, moderators if the list is too long let me know so I can find a way to give credit in a better way.)

[igodumb 0]

very nice suberbs

[Ringo 0]

Awesome city-I love how the water splits the city in half, well in three i guess. I always try to do that with my cities, but it never works out very well. SO, for that I wish you the best of luck. I think it will look cool when the downtown areas get going big. big buildings around water is cool

[collgab 10]

NICE like your city very very very very much

[Battlecat 14]

Nice start!  Looks like a very pretty city you've got to start.  Terraforming look great, as does you fledgeling city. 

A word of warning about farms, you might want to buffer them a bit away from you major routes.  I made that mistake in my city journal and wound up with pretty severe dilapidation from the road pollution.  Of couse if you're planning on re-development, that shouldn't be an issue.  

Keep up the great work!

[bat 6]

Nice start!

bat

[tomdapom 79]

Great start! Also if you want your diagonal streets to be dirt as well I think there is a mod on the STEX. Search up 'diagonal streets' and ye shall find!

[cityhawk 12]

By the river, especially a split in one, is where many, many settlements grew into fine towns and cities in real life, so I see the realism take on that. I like your city and how it maintains a country and urban feel. About the list of downloads, you should list any cheats, mods, and maps that you've used, and you don't have to name every BAT as long as you're not highlighting it. That info is all HERE. Anyway, great job!

[Simian30125 0]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I'll look for that diagonal dirt road mod, and as for the farms on the main highways I do plan on redeveloping them. This isn't even going to be the main city in the region, I haven't even started on that one yet lol. Gonna be studying some maps of cities and do a lot of planning so I can get it to be pretty realistic.

[mattb325 28,880]

Great start to this CJ - keep up the good work!

[GaBoR 7]

Good Start, Keep Up the nice work!!!