Ebolarama

Ive googled and looked around but could not find a clear answer. I know in Sim City4 neighboring cities affected growth and added to the population. SO in sim city 5 if you have 20k in one city and you start a new city in that region would that regions growth be as if it already had 20k? Does population in other citys make a difference and how so? Is the usual goal in a region to have specialization in one of everything and have one big city? Also for laying down roads does anyone have any links to a good guide? Sorry lots of questions! thanks

Hello everyone, I bought sim city 5 it just crashes and I had the itch so I got sim city 4 and I am now hooked. With that said its been about a week since I started playing I've failed countless times and started over. I know think I have a good system going and finally not losing money. Ive googled my question and looked on her some but didnt find it. I was wondering when you want to build a city with skyscrapers and all of that. I read you have to have atleast 100,000 in population. Does Region populations count? Heres what I have going on now. I have one small map to the side that im using neighbor deals and using as dirty and manufacturing industry. Then I have one big map that is my residential area. And just recently expanded north and have some suburbs with manufacturing industry only. But Im saving the waterfront map for my city. Since I have all of this going on will I be able to start a city right away or will I need to start small and work up again? I sure hope thats not the case. Thanks!