baldman

In my opinion the whole reason for living in the burbs is to get away from the dense urban style of living, the crime, the traffic, the various homeless people bumming of money for a smoke or a drink, the full classrooms and hospitals. The main reason for living in the burbs is to be in a much smaller community, the whole white picket fence thing, the ideal form of living. Supply and demand also has alot to do with it, as does anything in capitalist based society. If the people want to live in a single family home (even just so there aren't all those crazy parties upstairs, parties they don't get invited to) then developers build them those homes, cause it makes money, if people didn't want to live in suburban communities, there wouldn't be any, but the fact is that lots of people do. It isn't usually the young, hopeful and hardworking people that just got out of college that live in the burbs, those people usually live in urban areas, where it's more economic for them to live (no need for play space for the tots). The reason people live in places like NYC is because they are the centers of commerce, cities are where the jobs are, so that's where people try and live if it makes sense for their budget. People also live in cities because they like interaction with other people and because the cities are cultural centers. NYC for example is basically the cultural center for all of the US, so people move there because they can go see a play, a real broadway play, or sit under a tree in central park, or to the ballet or the opera, because cities are cultural centers for the regions where they exist. I, personally, would much rather live in a city because suburbs are too quiet for me, and because I like being in that hustle and bustle and cause that's where the jobs are, the large mass of opportunity (in commerce at least) resides in the big cities. Trying to urbanize the Suburbs defeats the purpose of having suburbs in the first place, that takes away from the fundamental concept of the quite life which is the whole reason (mainly) for people moving to the burbs. Also, in the original post, it talked about the little forest type thing that was isolated in the community and how environmentally stupid that is (which it is), but the point of having that there isn't for the environment (as far as the developer was concerned there is no such thing as a good tree unless its a money tree), what I'm guessing is that whoever built the area wanted the residents to feel like they were in touch with the natural world, it was probably basically left there just as something nice for people to look at, not to be part of nature.

Thanks everybody. Definitly helped. It was in fact the abandomnet dilapidation mod (sp?). Thanks. This duck is nifty

Hello. Whenever I try to change the building set (Euro, Houston...) SC4 crashes. It didn't always do this, so I'm assuming it's because of a MOD I downloaded. It's been like this for a while so I just stopped controling the building set. If anybody knows what I could do to fix this it'd be much appreciated. If not, it's all good, I'll just you know, keep on keein on. Thanks

where did you get all of your parking lots (sorry if somebody already asked that)? they really add to the transport design and realism of your cities. Thank you for making this, everytime I see it, it gives me soem cool ideas (not that i end up having the attention span to actually finish them but ya know, thats anyhow) (on another subject, i don't think i picked that picture.....(ponders) strange)