Asheville [Budget Crisis]
This update is a testament to the saving grace that is a well placed landmark. Friends, meet The Bank of China Tower. It is awesome.
I placed that beauty with the last of my loan money, but it was worth it. All of the sudden, with all of the new CO-$$$ jobs, my R-$$$ demand exploded exponentially. A lot of the green zoned areas filled up, and my tax income skyrocketed. It was awesome. While I was still in a deficit, it wasn't as severe. More money went to paying off my 200,000 loan, and less to city services.
I decided to have fun with a little recreational statue placing for a moment. It didn't have much of an effect due to already being so close to my mansion, but it still looks cool. It greets people on the way to my house! Fun fun.
In the aftermath of the population 'splosion, tons of stuff was unlocked. Including this absolutely free, absolutely useful golf course! Sweet. High-capacity schools and whatnot were unlocked as well, but I have no need of them yet. Learning from previous mistakes, I picked smaller trees to surround the golf course with.
Unfortunately, I neglected to take a picture of my budget before the landmark 'splosion. But for those curious, this is what it looked like afterwards. Before, it was about a 1.5k income to over 8k in expenises. With some major budget cutting, I managed to shave 1k off of it temporarily. While it's only going to be a matter of time before that comes back to bite me, it's worth it. I've gotta survive on that measly 88k in the bank until I can pay back that loan. It's sucking me dry!
Okay, so I'm drowning in debt with no relief in sight. What should I do? Well, this is a city simulator. And I've got land. Build stuff, it is! New med-density residential district, coming up! This is the other side of my map, where I've got my water and biomass power plant.
You guys are going to yell at me, but even in crisis mode, I just can't help it. My inner city builder has to see green. It just doesn't feel right otherwise! Also, I'm using the asphalt streets from the SAM built into the NAM. In the future though, you will see I realized that was a bad idea for med-density, and I switched to roads.
Okay, so I hit play again. But things didn't turn out so well. No-job zots everywhere! I hastily built some commercial along the roads to try to help the situation, but that is not $$ and $$$ commercial. The landmark took over all the CO-$$$ in the other section of the city, and while I do have CS-$$$ and CS-$$ demand, it is very small. Not enough.
It seems I accidentally built some sort of slum, heh.
I'm not sure if this is going to have much of an effect on my city, but I did overspend on police protection. Hopefully the income can help a little bit, I'm quickly running out of ideas. For safety, I placed it at the very edge of my city, away from everything.
To be honest, I was about to just call it a night. This... is what I was left with. Even after trying out building an avenue to help with the no-job zot problem. It kinda helped, and after some more severe cuts, it left me with a $7 surplus. On cheetah speed, this alternates between a $200 deficit, and a $35 surplus.
Then... something amazing happened. Something incredible! It turns out, that teeny-tiny surplus was all I needed. I PAID BACK MY LOAN AND MY GOODNESS WAS IT AMAZING. This is what my budget looked like after letting this surplus run for a few years. Lesson learned people, do NOT take out a loan unless you 100% need it, it nearly wrecked my city. Go realism.
My next update will detail revamping my transportation system with this surplus. I'm considering a subway system, and hopefully I can still keep this surplus after returning adequate funding to many city services. Also, if you guys are curious why this City Journal is called Embersan, it's because that's the name of the region. I'm going to follow the creation of several different cities.
@Adjiebrotot.
Wow, I had no idea about that mod, or the hotkey! Thanks. I figured the grid-lines where simply an issue with my graphics card or something. Thanks for enlightening me. Unfortunately, this update was captured before your comment. But the next updates will be yellothingy-less, and grid-less. I appreciate the encouragement. 
@supercitys354262.
Starting off insanely expensive is a way I like to challenge myself! Makes it much more exciting when I always have to watch my budget before I do something. Thanks! I hope you continue to like it.
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