Which is your Favourite Neighbourhood/World?

[NearlyWitches]

By "brownies", I assume you mean townies!

Haha yes! Did you know I hate autocorrect?

[bubbles]

Everyone hates autocorrect! 

[RainBeau]

For anyone who has Lunar Lakes, would you recommend it? Simpoints for Christmas and no idea what to do with them.

Oh my gosh give them to me! My wishlist is miles...Just kidding of course, but I feel safe enough here to share my first thought.

I don't know that I can really 'rank' my favourite towns, as where I play changes based on what's newest. I will share my thoughts though, in order of release. I have all current released expansions (up to Seasons), Riverview, Hidden Springs, and Monte Vista.

Sunset Valley--I hardly ever play here. I think it is a well-developed world and I liked it well enough when I first got the game, but as I said I play what's newest and so it's been a long time.
Riverview--I actually didn't play this town for awhile after I got it. I decided it was a good fit for a commune project I was playing so I spent some time there. I think a lot of the townies are very nice-looking and I like the stories, for example the Brokes living in a 'trailer park' all on one lot, genius! I like any town that has a built-in community garden, as I play a lot of gardeners, so that's a plus. And I think the new lots fit in well, there's a lot of space.
Twinbrook--Like Trip, I love Twinbrook. I'm not even sure why. I think part or most of it is Goodwin Goode. As anyone who read Schipperke's Mission Highly Unlikely knows, I am in love with Goodwin. He is the reason I chose to do my Immortal Dynasty in Twinbrook (spoilers, sorry) and since I've been playing that for so long I've got really attached to the place. There's not much space and it's hard to fit everything in, but it's doable. Playing in a town like that as much as I have, you figure out ways to do things. Also, it has a gorgeous community garden and as I mentioned, I appreciate that.
Bridgeport--I played a Selfsim family here. It was difficult fitting three growing boys into a studio apartment, but we managed! I actually really enjoyed the challenges of raising a family in the big city. As MoMoll mentioned, the townies are a lot of fun. My Self-sim's sons married Jun Xu, Moxie Logan, Flo Flo Chique and Bianca Rubble and a daughter married Bronson Littler. All of whom required ageing down, but oh well. I played it for the film career, and it's really nice to have all the bars placed, and the big city is interesting.
Hidden Springs--A beautiful town, to be sure. It's cool how they have the barracks at the military base. I set up a fairy family, thinking it was the perfect place, but I didn't stay long because there are no harvestable wild plants. Although it just occurred to me that I could copy the Twinbrook garden in.
Appaloosa Plains--If you have pets, or like to play with horses, this is the ideal town. Of course, it was created for that, so it makes sense. Good for Dynasties as well with the variety of good-looking and wealthy townies. Also, has the most pregnant Sims at start of game that I've ever seen.
Starlight Shores--I played a Who's Your Daddy challenge here for awhile. It looks very much like Southern California, so it feels like home. Again, of course it's good for what it's designed for, and if you want to play a Performer this is the ideal place. Plenty of venues everywhere. There are also nice townies and the variety for WYD was very pleasing. Finally, home to one of the coolest EA houses I have seen--The Castle. I saved it to my library so I can use it anywhere. Gorgeous.
Moonlight Falls--I love this town. Supernatural was my most exciting expansion, so I enjoy the built-in occults. The elixir shop is amazing for making money. The whole town has a nice foggy, spooky feel that I like for fairy tale stories. There is a lot of space, too, to add missing lots. Unfortunately, there are also a lot of small parks that are pretty pointless and as far as I can tell, a colossal waste of space.
Monte Vista--My most recent acquisition. I am in love with Italy, so I was really looking forward to this town. Packed with skilled, good-looking (although inexplicable sunglass-wearing) Sims, I can't wait to start a Dynasty here. Of course, I did just get it so I've hardly played it all yet.

[Anushka]

Since these two topics are fairly similar, I merged them in one. Feel free to vote and write down your opinion on neighbourhoods/worlds.

Anushka

[Ricalynn]

I reset the poll and added Monte Vista to it's ranks since there are a lot of people who would probably change their vote now that we have the new worlds out.

You can now choose up to 3 cities - don't forget to tell us why you chose those three.

[MarianT]

I chose Twinbrook, Lucky Palms, and Monte Vista. Scenery and atmosphere were my main reasons. Twinbrook has the seedy feel of some places I've lived, and I love some of the houses in the swampy areas (although I might love them less now that we get rain). I also like the punny names of the residents.

Lucky Palms reminds me of places I've visited in the Southwest, and it comes close to Strangetown, which was my favorite town in TS2.

As for Monte Vista -- beautiful scenery, pleasant townies (with one or two exceptions), and the best premium content of the store worlds (although I haven't done much with the wishing well in Lucky Palms).

Still, if I could have more votes, I'd add Lunar Lakes, Sunset Valley, and Sunlit Tides.

Edit to add:  Ahem! Why can't we vote for Union Cove?

[Ricalynn]

Because I assume that's everyone's favorite! 

*runs off to add it*

[Seabody]

SV, BB and UC.

I like them all for the Sims and scenery inside them.

[Beezy]

I like Barnacle Bay for some reason.  I don't know why some people hate it.

[cndneh]

I chose Moonlight Falls, Sunset Valley and Hidden Springs.

Moonlight Falls - I like everything about this town, the layout, the people, the scenery, everything.

Sunset Valley - tried and true, I fall back to this one for any sort of challenge because its easy to deal with.

Hidden Springs - I think its beautiful and will still be a favorite even though I've had some horrible lagging issues which have stopped me playing there. 

[bubbles]

Yesterday I got supernatural and so far I love Moonlight Falls. My sims (A fairy married to a witch) haven't met anyone yet, but it's only 3 o'clock on their first day and they have began gardening (Fairy) and alchemy (Witch). I like the fairy garden thing because the fairy can learn to garden without buying any seeds. She harvested all the plants and now has 4 tomatoes (Planted), 2 porcini mushrooms (Planted), 2 garlic (not planted), 2 flame fruit (not planted) and 2 life fruit (not planted). The witch has already got to level 2 alchemy. After all that, the only money they've spent on skilling is the 800 simoleons for the alchemy station.

Sorry to be a bit off topic with the gardening, but I do love that garden!

[Toni]

I really like Sunset Valley. Everythings nice and close in town, and I'm really familiar about it. Plus, the residents are really different and unique.

[Castaras]

My favourite town for playability is probably Twinbrook. Smaller lots, more interesting characters than Sunset Valley and Riverview. Second favourite is Riverview - pretty town.

However, there's three towns which looks-wise are my absolute favourites, but each have issues:

- Lunar Lakes is probably my favourite looks wise, however it has the big issue that it doesn't come with any expansion pack stuff added in. The only one is the Seasons lot which you can add in yourself, and many expansion rabbit holes don't come with Lunar Lakes as portals (mods have been formed to add these in, but it's irritating when EA can't be bothered updating towns).
- Likewise with Monte Vista. Beautiful town, but lacking in expansions lots that match with the town. Which results in more work for me whenever I want to play in the town, which is rather irritating when I could just load up a different town and have all the expansion pack stuff.
- Moonlight Falls is another gorgeous town, but it's not quite right to me - ignoring the fact that it feels very empty due to being on such a large map size with so little stuff, every time I load up the town I have to change the outdoor textures of the majority of the houses. The wooden boarding walls on a lot of the houses just feels wrong in a supernatural town, and doesn't really fit with the feel of the rabbit holes, in my opinion.

With regards the other towns:

Sunset Valley I've played too much. I know it too well and it's very boring nowadays.
Bridgeport is too buggy, and doesn't have enough non-apartmenty stuff for me to use. Just a rather irritating town in general, really.
Barnacle Bay is a one trick pony and once you get over "Hee, it's pirates" it gets rather annoying seeing all these people with pirate hats everywhere.
Starlight Shores is Sunset Valley but slightly duller. Played about a bit in it, but other than the venues (which aren't that amazing) there's very little about it.
Appaloosa Plains. Just not my sort of town. Don't like the very American Country feel of it. Wish there was a British Appaloosa which was more cosy.
Hidden Springs is gorgeous, but I played it too much. Same with Sunset Valley. Also the sims aren't very appealing there.
Lucky Palms and Sunlit Tides I'm putting in one category, because to me they feel like the same town with the same issue - they feel like a holiday resort rather than an actual town, and so it feels weird to have sims living there all the time.
Union Cove I wish I could play - it's updated for all expansion packs and it's got fun sims. I've tried playing it before and my computer just can't cope with the size of it. Looking forward to Chuckles' town when it gets finished, because a small size quality fan town would be wonderful. 

[NorthernLights8]

I've purchased and aquired via EPs other worlds, but I consistently find myself returning to Sunset Valley. Sure, it only has base game content, but there is just something about the residents that is so entertaining and original... Mainly becuase I am in love with 'pondecentric' and enjoy conversing with Dorie Hart.

Bridgeport is such a lovely city and has so much potiential, but some of the clubs are really ugly and the celebrity houses could be soooooo much better. I was also looking for cool vampire lairs, but found none.

And finally, Appaloosa Plains is a gorgeous midwest town with the really cool autumn trees, but the houses suck and (I know, super OTC) there is no 'big park' so I have no main place to send my sims to play for tips. 

[bubbles]

Welcome to the forum, NorthernLights! I agree that Appaloosa Plains has some severe faults. I get annoyed that there are no empty 2-4 bedroom homes cheaper than 120,000 simoleons or something ridiculous like that! The lack of a proper park is a real downer for me too.