Eryx

Recife is a large agglomerate of cities that became one city of its own to make things easier. Things aren't that easy, however. The city is divided by a long wall that separates the east coast from the west. Inequality is rampant and only those lucky enough to be born on the east get to live in comfort. Those on the west end up having to live with high crime, inequality and uncertainty. The city is divided by 15 more-or-less autonomous regions that were the previous cities that "came together". For the past 15 years, the division has been in effect, and its consequences are clearly visible. In a country still in development, having such a large city's society being separated could only mean disparaging differences. This City Journal will tell the stories of people living in both sides of Recife. A lot needs to be built, a lot needs to be written, but slowly and surely I will come here with Recife's progress. I hope you like this idea and whatever I build.

Josh was confused. The interview went well, everyone seemed pleased, and then he was hired. But he said he wanted to be close to his house... Why would the zipcode be in Rockport? Even the damned building was named Aurora. "No matter", he thought, "the pay is good". Turns out Josh was only two subway stops away from the Aurora building, part of Aurora city but still paying taxes to Rockport. "Ugh, this place is confusing", he said to himself. Rockportians weren't only famous for being confusing, there was something else Josh would soon learn about this city: parking is hell.

Liam never thought getting through the wall would get him here. He imagined great opportunities, affordable education, a thriving society. What he found seemed a little harsher than that. If you're in, you're in. If you're out, well, you shouldn't have come in the first place. His job as waiter would have to do. Maybe he should've kept to being a doctor on the west.

Linda was now definitely thinking of a divorce. After repeatedly pleading that his husband wouldn't move them from the island to Hightown, there they were, with a stunning view and nothing else. With little money left, that beautiful new apartment just seemed empty and depressing. Now, that normally wouldn't concern Linda. She's always enjoyed some dinner parties with their friends in Hightown, where the balcony lets you see the mountain and the docks. The thing is their daughter was only 5, and would now have no parks to play in. Rob would have his job right next to him, but she would still have to go to the island every day to teach. He had asked her to just quit, but not working would probably make her crazy. But the worst part... The worst part was traffic. There weren't enough connections between Hightown and the old center, and every day Linda would be jammed trying to get past that useless highway to finally get to downtown and drive down the express way. Little did Linda know, along with many of her neighbors, that the highway wasn't that useless after all. The few who realized the right entrances would take five minutes to get to their workplace while thousands of others squished themselves together in small avenues and streets. Life in Aurora can be frustratingly stressful sometimes.

And after a month of struggling, Tony finally made it to paradise. The golden Aurora region. Leaving from Novak hadn't been easy, and at some moments, he thought he wouldn't make it. At some moments, he questioned if leaving was worth it. Maybe Novak could get better too. But all of that didn't matter anymore. He'd made it. Tony met his uncle, John, and settled in the city. What a view.

I wasn't able to participate until now, but I joined the class today haha it's been very, very helpful! A few hours dedicated to the software and watching the first tutorials already got me to understand a whole lot more about BATting. I'm excited for what comes next!

Wow, this is some next-level stuff. I can't even imagine how many hours, effort and planing came into making these beautiful views. It takes a lot of BATs and a lot of creativity. I wish I had your stuff, and I wish I could use them as well as you did! Fantastic! I'll be sure to come check more of it out.

The pictures are fantastic as always. I agree with Benedict, the way the city's growing around the riverbank is very realistic. I'm loving the growth of Tarino! It's interesting to see that there are already some higher wealth areas like the one you built the statue in. And I loled at the city funds joke. Good work so far!

You should take into consideration that one of the basis that he used for the list were Google searches, and not everyone is American or European, so the way we see how important or famous cities are varies dramatically. For instance, I'm a user of Google.com (not .com.br), and in my head Panama City figures way ahead of Sydney when it comes to being known and visited. I don't know about Shenzhen, but I'm sure other countries that use Google such as India, Taiwan etc. probably know and visit it more than Rome. I might be wrong, but still... And if this list really was impacted enough by economics and educational institutions, São Paulo would figure way ahead of Rio or any other South American city by far. It's indisputably bigger and better in those areas. The only catch is that it's not very known tourism-wise while being an important economic hub for the world. Just my 2 cents.

Also, regardless of how close they are to schools or hospitals, they tend to still complain about not having enough of them nearby. Or they complain that the commute is impossible when the average is simply too low for that to be explainable. And also complaints about not having a job and needing to go to a different city for it, then complaining that it's impossible to commute to the other city, even when there's an excess of jobs and they live on the edge of the region. These sims are impossible to please!

This is awesome work! Great job! I'm sad to see Rio so far behind, but numbers don't lie

Thanks, that's precisely what I was looking for. I never noticed the button! Great, thank you! That's also close to what I was thinking of. I already had the extra cheats mod, I just didn't know what the cheat code was. Thank you both!

Hello, fellow city builders! I hate to bother you asking questions and I'm not even entirely sure this is the right place to post this, but I've been working on my first CJ and I'd like to know how to view the traffic data highlighted on region view. I've been googling but that didn't help very much. All I get are the usual cheatcodes and a bunch of videos of tutorials. I've seen some guys have traffic views on their regions and it seems like they type in a cheat code to get that. How can I do the same? I know that when playing in my city I can just press the question mark thingy on the console, but there's no such thing on the region view and that's what I've been trying to find. If there are any other useful tools I can use on the screen, I'd like to know about them too! Thank you in advance.