Educating Your Sims

[nosyreporter 0]

Well things have been going well in my corner of Sim Nation. I have a bustling little metropolis with two "residential" cities and one "industrial" city, about 70,000 residents all told. Early on, I put some residents and commercial areas in my "industrial" city. But I put no schools, or anything, because I really just wanted the income and because I thought they would drive to one of the schools in the "residential" cities. But this is not the case. The advisor in the "industrial" city is very angry with me because the Sims there are dumb.

Why is it that we can trade water and power and things, our Sims will drive to work, but they will not send their kids on a bus next door? Or am I doing something wrong?

[io_bg 249]

You'll have to put schools in the industrial city too. Sims kids can't go to school in a neighbouring city.

[lowballj 0]

If you're looking to just make money, don't build schools or hospitals and just have dumb, unhealthy cashgrabs

[Dizastrow 4]

Just put a small school and a small clinic there, at least there is something, then you should be fine, but yes I agree with you, kids should be able to take the bus to a neighboring school.  

Things that I hope will happen with the next SimCity game.  Amongst many other things.!

[NetPCDoc 1]

Hello nosyreporter,

While bussing across city boundaries would be nice - and while the area of effect for City Colleges and Universities would appear to be large enough - alas - no provision was made for wasting local tax dollars on educating those poor folks from other cities. Rather - a city with better schools will attract more of those sims that are ready for a better education - while any city without schools gets the lazy sims that don't want no education, nohow, anyway.

-NetPCDoc

No detail is too small to be micromanaged.

[quikling 0]

there will be no game ever programmed to do everything we want hence why we use strategies to make the most of what we have and if its any small consolation the game designers for the next sim city have probably read your post. Good luck