This is my first ever post, so bear with my novice level uploading skills and etiquette. This region size wise is not very impressive with only 600,000 people, but my main goal was realism; not to harp on other playing styles. I tried to orient the land, and highways in a way that forces sims to use them (which many have managed to subvert my efforts anyway).

I zoned with a lot of diagonal neighborhoods and districts to hide the boundary lines and give the region more realism.