Moving Around

This round is going to be dedicated to moving Sims around to proper homes. During the great Island Paradise tidal wave (i.e. when I finally decided to update the town to newer IPs, after much resistance) many families were evacuated with their own homes. These Old Winchester cottages took the place of many newer converted barns that the town council had planned.

It is now time to re-evaluate the living areas. Many of those 'cute' and 'charming' cottages 'for two Sims and a baby' are just too small for a town where generations live together in the same home as much as possible. Some families are too crowded, others are broke, living in houses that are too big for their income - courtesy of NRaas Income Tax.

The new town is going to be a mix of older and newer houses, but all houses are going to be from one version of Winchester or another... Just like most of the community lots.

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The Retirement Home stays where it is.

And of course the Adams farm doesn't go anywhere either. Yue Xiulan is already training her grandson Benjamin to be a farmer one day.

Yue also decides to replant everything with better quality plants.

The farm looks very bare, and things seem to be growing back very unevenly... But the quality is so much nicer that I fear Sims will start stealing their produce to start their own gardens...

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The third house on the hilltop is a barn that came with Old Winchester - to replace another barn in that spot.
Michael and Layla Adams live there, but they really need a slightly larger home. And they don't particularly like farming, so why live out on a field...

Gina Bernard and her family already moved, to a new house (Caswell Farms, from the Pets version of Winchester), freeing up a space on Deerfield Drive. The house that used to be there is still small, but with the basement and the more luxurious interior it seems much more suitable for a police officer and an actress.

So this is Michael and Layla's new home.

The garage is perfect for Michael's squad car. And with the addition of a treehouse, it's also perfect for the kids. The girls will still have to share a room, but they don't mind.
Nena is now grown up as well, so they can go to school together and do their homework together.

(Although from the looks of it, Nena is slightly annoyed at the way Nicola scatters her clothes on the bedroom floor when there's a perfectly good hamper in the corner!!)

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Gwendolyn and Judith Adams moved in the opposite direction. Judith wanted to be near Sun Young, her sister-in-law, who was getting old (and who died a few days later, actually). And Gwendolyn wanted to stay near Judith.
So the hilltop barn was the perfect spot for her. She's an art forger so it's an added bonus that she can now do her painting where nobody is likely to see her.

The original barn was pulled out of storage and placed. And Gwendolyn then asked her friend Stacia McGovern to be her roommate and share the expenses.
Stacia could use a barn so her horses can have a roof over their heads, and Stacia's old barn is on the list to be replaced, too.

So everyone is happy with the new arrangements. Stacia immediately cluttered up the kitchen and the bathroom.

And the horses like the improvement, too. There's only room for one box stall, but both horses can be inside.

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In the meantime, back at the big farm Roger is practicing his contortion skills.

And Lori Adams has a lucky break at work.

Since she was at level 9, this means a promotion to level 10 - and her Lifetime Wish accomplished!

Lori is now a Dynamic DNA Profiler. That's an unexpected bonus this round - she was only at around 30 percent of her job performance, and it's slow going.