so many abandoned buildings

[DasaniCW]

no matter what i do they always get abandoned and i zone a bunch of jobs but nothing

[TheDiaz]

And what about parks? Services like hospitals, schools? Are the works easy and fast to access?Are the works the type the rresidents want?

Did you build neightboring cities?

[GeographicCactus]

Make sure they can be reached by road. The jobs are provided by commercial zones, Hospitals etc will wok irrispective of your population. Remember that all zones need power, medium & high density zones need water too. Also keep an eye on the RCI demand meter.

[NetPCDoc]

If you have provided utilities (water, power, etc) and transit, then as suggested above check your RCI meter to see just what your citizens are currently wanting more of.

A high demand for industry won't be satisfied by more commercial zones (and vice-a-versa). If you have things balanced between R C and I, then you may want to consider adding more neighbor connections.

And with Region Play, you can import R C and I via said neighbor connections, from elsewhere in the Region; usually from your closest neighboring cities. Don't forget to provide infastructure should you care to try making utility deals with your neighbors.

[Cahos Rahne Veloza]

Originally posted by DasaniCW:

does neighbors mean online multiplayer?

Nope, a neighbor city is another city you build yourself next to/beside another city you've made.

[NetPCDoc]

Neighbors are the other cities / city-tiles you see in your region view; and SimNation - when you connect off of one of the sides of the region view.

[Ɗᴿ҃Dee]

you can conect cities and you have to read what buildings do and yes like in reality even if there are jobs some people dont care ;D
and of course you have to change switch taxes etc. water and energy traffic apply gambling etc...
you have to drive some sim car bus jobs to get money and Mayor honour

[MGB]

No job zots mean either your sims have no suitable jobs or simply can not get to them in time.

The first of those is complex, because it requires a deeper understanding of the simulator, to really see why this might be a problem.

But before you get into that, some sanity checks are really needed. For example, did you know the original Traffic Simulator, the part of the game that looks for paths to jobs, is hideously broken? Maxis made it too simplistic, so the game would run on lower spec machines. However, unless you are using a Pentium III 500, this simply isn't necessary. Make sure you've downloaded and installed the Network Addon Mod. Even if you don't want all the new complex networks it offers, the core "Basic Install", simply provides many fixes that turn a broken game into a working one.

Link:
http://www.moddb.com/mods/network-addon-mod

Next, be sure you've patched your files so that the I-HT fix is properly installed. Another bug left by Maxis, but fixed by the community, causes I-HT not to actually provide any R$$$ jobs, whilst creating demand for them. This can cause huge problems if you don't address it.

Patch:
http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/22771-ih-missing-jobs-fix-update/

How to properly install it (VERY IMPORTANT):
http://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/48632-tutorial-applying-the-i-ht-bug-fix-correctly/