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The next morning Mickey was very happy with the result of the date, he and Sharon enjoy a good cup of coffee, before Sharon went to her house... 

Mickey called in sick to his job, so they gave him a free day... Mickey is happy with that and with the idea of another wonderful romantic date with another lady of Riverside...

In my initial post about the rural build I mentioned that we keep our traditional rural homes as a way to preserve and honour our roots as Zimbabweans.

I wanted to keep that same idea in my gameplay.

So in ancient Zimbabwean culture, a family would grow and expand into their own community/legacy on one compound. The idea was that we would operate as a small tribe because everyone stayed connected. As the times have changed it’s not common to have these huge legacies staying in the same place anymore, especially since most folk now live in the city. But the sentiment is still apparent.

What happens nowadays is that when a person gets old they tend to want to go back to their ancestral home and live out the rest of their days there. They prefer this to being put in nursing homes because they prefer to keep their liberties as home owners, though without feeling like they’re getting in their younger children’s way.

Their children and grandchildren can then come to visit them there for the holidays.

I’m gonna implement a similar system in my game (for this particular hood) and have it be a vacation location because it’s supposed to be completely separate from their normal everyday lives. I like it because it feels familiar to how myself and many other Zimbabweans grew up.

It’s the perfect device to aid legacy gameplay too, because when the grandparent sims pass on I can have their elderly child move there too and so on. And eventually I plan to build other similar lots in the same area so that different families can have their own compound and that will create more gameplay opportunities too.

It’s a big project and quite ambitious. Idk how long I’ll keep at it, but for now I’m really into it so I’m doing as much as I can.