Show us the place where you live in SimCity 4

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Show us the place where you live.

If the topic already exists, I apologize. Then just move please.

This is the place where I live.
Hamburg-Langenhorn / Germany. It is not the whole place, of course, but only the small part where I live.

The whole thing was created after a satelite picture.
In a few places I cheated because the game just did not want to join...... ;-)
I had to build some buildings myself.

Everyone who lives here has recognized it. So it can not be soooo bad..... :-)

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Beautiful initiative! I live in the center of a suburban city, it will be a great work but I'll do it later.

[SIM-ple Jack 17,451]

My City(which will remain nameless for security reasons )

Description: Airport, freight rail with no station, no ports but lots of marinas, no major industry except tourism, commercial and banking are king, lots of golf(4 major private courses, one city course), beaches to the west, one baseball stadium, art museums and schools, an aquarium, a bird sanctuary, a wildcat sanctuary...and lots and lots of malls, both strip and mega. Welcome to my nightmare.

Step 1: The journey begins with my hand-made grayscale run through the mapper and terraformer.

 

 

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Step 2: Sand the burrs off the map with the level brush and ctrl+2. Since this is an art project, money is no object. so I zone agri around all those lines,  level them down and start laying in my transportation super-structure.

 

 

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Step 3: Let's put in an airport...shall we!

 

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Step 3 Part 2: More at the airport. A somewhat well-known art museum and assorted colleges nearby.

 

 

 

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Step 3 Part 3: The airport is finished. Most of this area of town is zoned unincorporated. This area's most notable business is an adult entertainment establishment that the powers-that-be have tried to be rid of for years. The place has a grandfather clause which keeps that from happening. I'm sure most of the city council attends nightly performances.

 

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Step 4: Island Life

The upper island in my city. Resorts and a 36 hole, private golf course split in half,  an aquarium(had to substitute an aviary because I don't think anybody ever made an aquarium), a tourist trap, and a smaller island heading toward the mainland, where some lottery winners and has-been celebrities live. In all that unbridled snobbery,  resides a run-down trailer park the city can't get rid of. Poetic justice.

 

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Step 5: Shop Till You Drop!

Welcome to the 7 gates of Hell (as many of these malls have the word "gate" in their names), better known as Mall Land. To relieve their boredom, suburbans waste their money on junk that will inevitably end up in their yard sales. The second golf course of note is for a trailer park.

 

 

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By the way, WZe, did you ever make more of that Hamburg map?

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Step 6: Golfing With Hogs

A  golf course on the way towards a state park. If you like golfing on the wild side, expect to encounter deer, raccoons, coyote, snakes, wild cats, and the occasional pack of wild boar.

 

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Step 7: DOH!!!

So they sunk a billion dollars into this mega-mall... and then, along came Amazon and Covid-19.

 

 

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Step 8: Cat Nap Fever

The hub store for this area is a Lowe's. Mostly burbs but on the right side of the highway is a wild cat sanctuary...which probably accounts for the low population, especially of pet owners.

 

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Step 9: Take me out to the ballgame....

More golf courses and a baseball complex in upper midtown.

 

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Step 9: More 'burbs by the highway. A Home Depot and Super Walmart are the hubs there.

 

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Step 10: En route to downtown

The county fairgrounds and auditorium are the draws here, mostly for gun shows and a cheesy flea market. A condo project that never seems to end. The tail end of the city's only public golf course. Lower end housing abounds.

 

 

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Step 11: Downtown

Don't let the lights fool you. It's dead as Dick's toothbrush here. I go there once a year to pay taxes, renew licenses, etc. at City Hall.

 

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Step 12: Island Life Part II

A little younger crowd here, but mostly the SOS. They banned high-rises so you can actually see the shore from the road.  The main draw, inland, is a waterfront seafood shack I've never went to. The catch of the day- boredom.

 

 

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Step 13: The Home Stretch

Yup, we have stores and suburbs...again!

 

 

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Step 14: The last of the beaches

 

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Step 15: The richy Rich

Prestigious country club/gated community. I've built a number of homes in there. 

 

 

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