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Oh my god it's beautiful. @_@;

Originally posted by: duack The one time I dont like suburbs is when there's too much pavement and too little garden because that misses the whole point of the garden movement. .quote> From what I've seen, that's basically how all Suburbs are built in California now.

I've never really seen China before. So many skyscrapers going up, but they seem to go up not just in one, but in many. It's strange to see so many of the same building bunched together. Hangzhou looks pretty.

I am currently living in a late 80s suburb in Sacramento, California. It's small, but the space works and the area is nice. There is a greenbelt, the houses don't look that bad (wood panelling was still in use at the time) and the neighborhood is good. My development looks nice and green. Fastforward a couple years in my childhood and a suburb was being built across the way in the big expanse of field i went exploring in at one point and time. This was the 90s and they built the homes much larger, out fo stucco, with clay tile roofing. They aren't terrible to look at, but they are almost all the same color and there is little greenery in the neighborhood. It's mostly just poured concrete, road, and beige, tan, and white homes with identical roofing and design. Then we come to 2007 (I believe) when they began building further down the street. The houses were now twice as large as the homes that had been built in the 90s. They are literally square boxes that could easily house four small families in one. They're hideous and they're the product of a monster that has grown out of control. I can understand why people like suburbs, but they're not nice anymore. They're hideous. Greenery has been done away for cement. And in Sacramento (near the border of Elk Grove), the commute time is terrible. It takes me 45 minutes to get to school from my house (CSUS Sacramento), when it only takes 15 when there is no traffic. There is no public transport going from my house to my school. And no forms of mass transit that use rail were ever planned for this area. All of the buildings that go up are as ugly as the square boxes next door. Originally posted by: Milliano Wastes? People live and work in the space. Goods and services are produced there. Simple economics explains that the space isn't wasted. quote> Goods and services are not always produced there. Sometimes it is just houses upon houses upon houses. And the houses are not always built space efficent. Suburban houses have been getting bigger and bigger, or at least from what I've experienced. People are living in spaces that could easily house two families their size. And when you have to commute an hour away from your suburb to get to work, then you waste gasoline on the trip. Yes, it's a waste. People live in suburbs, but few work in them.

Originally posted by: DITRO You don't need to reconcile the edges. I have had connections on uneven borders. But you might as well reconcile them just to make the borders look natural - it could just be a minor thing.quote> Thanks. It actually looks natural just as it is. SC4 is just having issues. Originally posted by: mayor_brando Sometimes the connections show up for me if I hit cancel when it asks if I want to reconcile.quote> Interesting. I'm sure I can fake it and make a connection in the same place anyways.

So I've downloaded the SC4 Terra Former and have taken what was a very strange looking island due to SC4's region restricted terra forming and now I have a pretty nice island where all the cities should flow seamlessly together (despite the fact that the program crashed while saving it, ... it managed to be saved). But SC4 still tells me I need to reconcile edges. And as far as I know, it wont let me connect roads until I reconcile my edges. If I make a connection, will it still be considered a viable connection? If I create a road in the exact place where it would appear if I reconciled, will there be virtually no difference if I reconcile or not?