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Ashville Metropolis Hits 700,000! ; Coastland Metropolis Grows

(Sorry about the lack of update yesterday, this one took a while to make. Images are 1080p, to see them much larger, click on them) (Yellow Text is construction crew, Green Text is news crew/author, Red text is Dennis Brown (mayor of Ashville cities) and Blue text is Jack Green (Mayor of Coastland Metropolis.)

Breaking news!

Ashville population now at 700,000! Mayor Dennis Brown now has his eyes on becoming the first city to EVER to break 1 million population on Hard mode, as he approaches the 3/4th mark. We're live here at Ashville Metropolis, Anything you got to say mayor Brown?

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"I...I can't believe I actually made it that far, Ashville has stopped growing after 600,000 but then it bloomed again. I look forward to making the headlines and breaking this barrier. I know that getting those last 300,000 is going to be much more difficult, but I'm going to do it, I want to break 1 Million Sims!"

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Wow, your population is at 728,000 right now! At the rate yours is growing, you'll definitely hit the barrier. Coastland Metropolis will be the 2nd city to hit 1 million on hard, but that's still a great honor for them!

"Hey, I gotta thank Mayor Green, if he didn't build that high speed rail, this city would be gridlocked!'

"Did you not hit some kind of demand cap or anything?"

"Yes, but like any responsible mayor, I Googled my city's issues and found several solutions'

Good, well thank you for your time! Keep up that city!

GOOGLE? You used GOOGLE to solve your city's problems?! Ah, I admit I used it a couple times too, helped me break my demand cap.

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(Commercial area at Ashville Metropolis)

'Mayor Green, Your city is at 520,000 sims, we're the biggest cities in this region...But gosh this is getting harder! I actually wiped out ALL my dirty industry from my city and built it up north, connecting it to I-45.

YOU DID WHAT?!

See for yourself:

(The Great Coast region)

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(4:57 PM)

I know you moved the industries to another tile, but mayor you're showing no regard to the environment, you're disrespecting mother nature. I know you're trying to reach 1 million sims, but at what cost?

"It's worth it"

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5:50 A.M.

Good Morning! We have recently widened our main avenues, and now we're going to connect Interstate 45, with interstate 565, to go west. We're going to build a 4 way interchange! Here are the plans:

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The highway that runs through Coastland City is now Interstate-35, and route 466 will merge with another highway (In the yellow) and intersect with interstate 45, and head up north. I-45 will intersect with I-35, and Highway 565, and go west. The red line there is Coastland Avenue (for clearer picture) and the purple are the monorails.

Also, notice the new towns that were started, now Ashville has some towns built to the right, and a new one in our County called District 121, which, like District 105, is mostly of medium wealth houses. (New York Style)

Today, we're headed to the one on the left, deemed as: Interchange City 1. (I-City 1 for short)

Anyways, let's head outside and...RAIN?!

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(6:01 A.M.) Rainy morning Downtown Coastland Metropolis

Aw man! I forgot the weatherman called for rain ALL DAY. We'll have to keep building anyways, come on! We're headed to I-City 1!

By the way, those two water towers you see there were the VERY first ones ever built. They've been dead for a while, but they're landmarks now, for historical purposes.

Drivin' through our newly widened Coastland Boulevard:

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(6:09 A.M.)

Raining pretty hard...

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(6:11 A.M.) Coastland Boulevard intersects 45th Avenue

You might need this...

Press play...

http://youtu.be/p7XmVCfC_LY

Highway 35...

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(6:17 A.M.)

We're here! Woah, it's swampy out here. And POURING! Man, it's raining cats, dogs, elephants and monkeys!

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(7:28 A.M.)

Let's see if anyone's out here..

I see someone! Let's ask that him if anyone's working!

(Rolls down window)

Hey! Is anyone working out here?

Mayor Green is that you? No, we're not working today, the Area's closed due to the weather. We're packing up for today, the rain has made the area too dangerous and muddy, so we decided to take today off. Here's what we were working on yesterday:

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We couldn't find the right piece, but thanks to a Simtropolian, who helped us find the right piece (I think his name was Indiana Joe or somethin'). We were able to finish the main interchange.

Well, what are ya'll working on then?

We're putting up the signs and finishing the connections. Lights were finished, here's some images from yesterday:

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(1:52 PM) (Interstate 45 (East to West) intersecting Highway 565 (South to North)

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(11:24 PM) Yesterday

Sorry to disappoint you'all! I know you want to show the simtropolians how we build our highways...

This is jank, we wanted to see some construction. Now what are we going to do to entertain these people?

Why don't you drive around, and show them the new town you built over there, let's see... District 121? And then Coastland Farming? I heard they're building new apartments!

Nice! Let's go!

Yeah....We get a lot of rain in the summer, but usually in the afternoon. This storm season's an active one this year.

8:24 A.M.

Let's see...go to Techville's SPUI interchange, then take a right and go north to District 121...

Here we are! This is a little town I started to satisfy some of that middle class demand. They're some nice suburbs for people who prefer to live in houses away from the city.

Here it is:

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(8:46 A.M.)

Umm Mayor, what a lovely town you got up there, would be nice if I could actually SEE IT.

Oh, sorry about that, it's too high up, but if you look really closely you can make out the avenue, which comes from Techville (south, or bottom of above image). The neighbor connector is covered by the cloud but it's right around the bottom of the avenue.

Here are some closer shots:

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(8:50 A.M.) Main city streets soaked as rain comes down, water running down the roofs and backyards appear soaked too. (The town's main avenue is to the right of this image)

Most Sims are indoors right now, watching TV, or just doing stuff to pass the time.

On the left side of the avenue (actually called Tech Avenue) are the estates, these houses have bigger lots, with bigger front and back yards:

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(9:01 A.M.) Elementary school closed for summer

I love these neighborhoods, they're peaceful, and the smell after the rain is amazing.

Alright, let's go to Highlands, I need to buy some food at the new Walmart they built (I'm not mayor of highlands) we'll take the monorail!

We have arrived...

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(9:25 A.M) 50% off back to School special for only today! Even the rain won't stop these shoppers...

Wow... Is this rain going to stop at all? Alrighty we finally found a parking lot...

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(Courtesy of Google)

My boots are soaked! Let's see...

Random person: Hey, aren't you the mayor of Coastland?

Yes, me and my friend. We're shopping for food.

Can I have your autograph?

Hey I'm a mayor not some famous celebrity!

You will me if you beat Ashville Metropolis and reach 1 million people first!

Sorry, I'd rather pay respect to mother nature and get 2nd than to build all that dirty industry.

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In fact, here's an image from yesterday of new growth:

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(2:20 pm) New buildings in Coastland Metropolis

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(Same place right now)

Those new buildings got the population to 518,000 Sims.

We'll see you around!

See ya later!

Now let's check out those apartments at Coastal Farming:

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(10:01 A.M.) Still raining!

Alright, I'm waiting this rain out, We're going to Coastal Metropolis, (The city down the beach) hopefully it's not raining there too hard!)

Here's an image of where we're going (taken yesterday)

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(Yesterday, 3:40 PM) Coastland Boulevard)

Yes, that's Coastland Boulevard, This avenue cuts through Coastland City (north of this image) and Cuts through Coastland Metropolis.

The mayor of Coastal Metropolis widened his stretch to 6 lanes, and built Hi-tech industries and commercials.

Here we are!

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(11:24 A.M.)

Quite a drive isn't it! I drove through all that rain, but the rain finally stopped here! Children are out playing in puddles, the fresh after rain smell in the air...

These roads are pretty wet though. This storm's moving west to Ashville now, they're getting rained on.

Anyways, I'm going to stay here for tonight, and we'll see you again soon!

I hope you all enjoyed this big update, and sorry about the rain, it's only nature.

Thank you all for reading! Remember if you want to hear the history of Coastland, check out the first 3 updates. We'll see you later!

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This looks really cool, i like seeing region shots like this. Great looking city !

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I want to do a city that hits 1kk ppl, but my pc needs moar cowbell

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Those first night pics are things of beauty! It really shows off the grid of streets (save for the renegade diagonal) that a real city would have. I've seen that view countless times from an airplane, and it looks exactly as it should. Great work.

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