A problem I had last night, I had huge apartments and commercial shops, but they had roads. And this was like, the center of the region. So I changed them to roads, but within months, the sims had abandoned the skyscrapers and I was struggling to keep the population above 30,000. The city had become an urban eyesore, with polluted water systems and I had loans to pay off so i had to delete that region. I've only just got Simcity 4. Also, can sims have jobs in neighbouring regions if I make a road out of town? I see all these pretty suburbs, but every time I try to make one, I run out of cash.