If SimCity4 were real life...

[soldyne 111]

Roads and Civic buildings could built in a day and skyscrappers could built in a matter of weeks...

 

You could achieve perfect health by simply living next to a hospital...

 

You could run a successful business by having a bunch of commuters drive by your store...

 

 

 

(I just wanted to start a little comedy thread to lighten the mood.  keep it going.  and happy holidays!)

[Former User 225 1]

eminate domain takes a hole knew meaning when your home can be bulldozed at will by the mayor, and quickly rezoned for a factory.

[anilber 0]

You could live right next door to your work and complain about how long it takes you to get there.

You could have a subway stop at every corner of your city and prefer to drive to work in bumper to bumper traffic.

 

You could have the dictator (mayor) destroy your house by accident.

[Coasterkid 0]

If simcity were real, a million people a day would use a little neighborhood street, while a 12-lane freeway lay empty.

 

[drew0718 0]

Date: 11/26/2005 10:33:20 PM Author: moonei eminate domain takes a hole knew meaning when your home can be bulldozed at will by the mayor, and quickly rezoned for a factory.

After the Supreme Court ruling in Kelo vs. New London, that isn't too far from the real world.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/LAW/06/24/scotus.property/index.html

But, sorry, this is supposed to be a lighthearted thread.
How about these:

1) A city's borders would completely block pollution from its neighbors

2) Ferries would travel faster than cars on a freeway
https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=42241&forumID=38&search=1&searchstring=

3) You could build a road 60 degrees straight uphill...but not under a bridge

4) A mayor would be able raise tax rates as he pleased, fill his city with polluting industries and toxic waste dumps, call down meteors & tornadoes at will, and steal a citizen's car for a free drive; but he would only get voted out of office for failing to balance the budget.

[louisville327 0]

If SC4 were real, you would never get to vote for a new mayor.

[making_out_in_aix 5]

if simcity 4 were real, every town would look practically the same.

and a city of 100,000 could be in a town which is only 5km

[xcalbier 43]

If it was real any time someone dident have the right part to there building they would have to wrap a 9 story building in brown paper and put a bow on it .lol

  

[deanej 2]

If SC4 was real your car would vanish when you got to work.

When you lose power/water/your job a zot would appear over your building.

 

You would bu 25 years old... and still get educated by an elementary school.

 

Giving birth would be made obsolete when people appear out of thin air at a certain age.

[13thRaptor 0]

Everyone would accept a 16 year old as mayor without any reservaions.

[danielanzaldua 8]

If simcity were real you see brown boxes in the street and see cars use the same lane insted of the 7 others lanes in the freeway lol

[thomil 4]

IF SC4 was real life, every journey by plane would start with an aircraft carrier like take off and end with a similar landing, Every railroad line would be a two track one, and passenger stations would need no platforms.

[The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz 27]

If SC4 was real, I would be the Prime Minister of a well decent country! And I would be able to have anything I wanted thanks to the BAT!!!

[soldyne 111]

ha ha ha, rofl.  great ones guys, how about these:

 

garbage could be incinerated for free by reducing the garbage budget to 0 but teachers and doctors will strike every week if they dont get exactly what they want.

 

anyone could quit their jobs and move out of the city if they have to travel more than an hour to work but pile up the garbage in their backyard and set their house on fire every other month and they will not say a word.

 

all cities in the world would be square.

 

firemen dont put out fires unless the mayor specifically directs them to but hospitals and police work just fine on their own.

 

everything in the city limits is able to be destroyed with a single bulldozer...except garbage.

 

I have lots of others, but i'll give some new people a chance.

[noble_scribe 0]

The construction of a city hall would be an absolute formality, since there would never be a regularly-meeting city council to regulate your absolute power as mayor.

Certain city ammenities, such as universities and golf courses, would be available to almost any town capable of cresting a certain set population.

 

It would be entirely possible to cultivate a city full of residents who were capable of doing little more than drooling on standardized tests, and no reprimand would ever be handed down for your utter lack of investment in the intellectual future for your sims.

 

Every golf course would be exactly the same.

 

 

[UnkleS27 24]

If SC4 was real cities would need an airport every 16 square kilometers.

[Fantail 0]

If simcity were real, then the whole region could survive with absolutly no farms or dirty industries, even if the region is isolated on an island.

[GMT 389]

if sc4 was real life...

i would be sitting high above my hometown and change everything i want by pointing at it

the earth were a squareish disc with on wich water would stay where it is, no matter how much and garbage would be disposed by chuting it over the edge

the only water would be on sea-level

very rich people would have their mansions right beside the trailers of poor ones

some people living on a hill would have a very high wall in their backgarden because the garden of the family that lives behind them is not terrain-conforming

if u life right at the edge of a city, your -4 storey cellar would have no walls on one side

you would never have to worry about to much rain, snow in winter or an iced car because you don't know about seasons

u could go to sleep in an almost desert-like environment and get up on a green landscape just because someone higher installed the columbus mod

sometimes daylight and night switch like u turn a light on and off

one day/night change could take months

[Vitruvius 0]

If SC4 were real ...

There would be no such thing as homelessness.

 

An expressway built in 1970 would appear in a neighbouring city in 1900.

 

No one would ever live above shops, ever, and no skyscrapers would mix residential and commercial.

 

You city may have a resort hotel and a tourist trap - but no tourists.

 

A rural town of 2000 could have a 20-storey casino.

 

The city could have wonderful commercial facilities full of happy workers. But no one would actually use them.

 

[pepsi71ocean 2]

If sim city was real......

I would be the most powerful dictator on earth.

Ruling 1/8 of thw world would be very intense.

 

lol

 

no but i could stop the urban spraw in my home town, the traffic is hoiriable.

two years ago i could go to work in 7 min, now it 45 min!

[woodlm 3]

If SC were real:

 

-Your police force would be equipped with super cars that can plough through intersections knocking other cars spinning of the road, BUT would explode on contact with a transport truck.

 

- A zoning bylaw change could wipe out entire buildings without a trace.

 

 

 

[6SpeedTA95 0]

I'd be a millionaire due to my superb city management skills.

[coolotter88 2]

if sim city were real, all buildings would be built from the top down.

if sim city were real, you could live in the hogan and your friend could live in the hogan but you'd be living down the street from each other.

if sim city were real and you were a rich person living in a mansion, either you'd share the mansion with 2 other families or have a huge gigantic family living in one house...19 people per building...

a big fire could make a nuclear meltdown but having a tornado plough through the nuclear power plant would just make it fall down.

i guess i'm kinda glad sim city wasn't real life.

[AndrewAce3158 0]

if simcity was real:

 

the only resources you would ever need are water and power.

 

water towers would make water.

 

your house would be smaller than a wind turbine.

 

the quality of your life would be determined by your city's difficulty setting.

 

the only sports would be baseball and tennis.

 

after two or three centuries nothing would ever change again.

 

[Frymon 0]

If Simcity 4 was real The Mayor Could Turn Your Home into a School in a day

If Simcity 4 was real your house could be the size of a police Kiosk

If Simcity 4 was real the cities funds could go up every day beacause of cheats

Glad it isn't real

[coolotter88 2]

doesn't anyone think that having all of the worlds buildings being built from the top down is funny? darn...

[soldyne 111]

If simcity 4 were real...

 

no one would have any concept of weather.  everyday is a sunny day.

 

giant robots and UFOs would be considered natural disasters, and are probably covered by insurance.

 

roads would never get potholes if the transportation budget is maintained.

 

there would be only one religion.

 

the mayor could summon forth bolts of lightning, giant volcanoes and create life in the wilderness, yet would not be able to put out a fire by destroying the source (bulldoze the building).

 

time would stop when a fire started.

[GreekMan 246]

if Sim City 4 was real you would crash into a freigh truck (you know the one in the industrial sections) and blow up and be killed.

 

Also if Sim City 4 was real where would people 's waste go from the toliets.

[Athens2004 1]

If a SimCity was real, residents would be clumsy. And they would throw tantrums more often.

(Imagine, you the mayor, actually a nanny of over a million. I'm still trying to get those clumsy sims to use the bus!)

[T Wrecks 10,209]

...two houses that are 100m away from each other would be connected by huge high-voltage power lines.

...bridges would conduct electricity. (Ouch!)

...raising the grounds some 16m away from a massive building would cause the building to either explode or disappear mysteriously.

...you may find elevated highways with trees growing right through them.

...trains could be four times as long at the platforms, and they wouldn't go through the station, but just dissolve.

...huge signposts might appear out of nowhere, settle right on a busy avenue crossing and still not bother anyone. Then, the writing would slowly appear.

...the mayor would constantly ramble about the unnerving stupidity of his sims instead of being diplomatic.

...people would be considerably taller than a storey, yet they could squeeze into the tiniest spaces in thousands.