Griffintje

Btw, I just opened a city that was build as one with only residentials, next to one with industrial and power plants, and my residents didn't receive any power at all, they just pleaded for power plants, not for energy from the neighbouring town with plenty of energy to spare, and so they fled away in no time.

How do you plan your city? I always end up putting stuff in the wrong place, however good I think of it before I start to build. It seems to me it has something to do with my starting position, in the corner of a citysquare. Also, with the regionplay and building two cities next to eachother, one for industrie and one for residential, I get the problem that the city without power station doesn't ask me to get power from the city with powerstation.

Thx! O, if I have a zone that's facing the wrong direction, do I need to turn/rebuild it? (If there's a road along it, and still the arrow points in the wrong way, because you build a busstop or something on part of the ground) And the same for buildings, do I always have to build the roads first? It is sometimes difficult to see the number of tiles (forrest) and I happen to make mistakes in putting the roads

I have another $%&^! question: how far is "far enough", in the meaning of putting the residential zones far enough away from the industrial zones and the power plant? And how big do I plan my neighbourhoods (size of res.zone per family)? I usually start of with a mixture of 2 and 3 deep residential lots