Citizens complaining about small homes

[firestream13]

Most of my citizens keep complaining about small homes ever since the update and that's the main reason why they keep leaving the city. I don't have any high density demand also because of it. I even built a suburb area and they still keep leaving. I have 197k population but my city isn't really growing much anymore since its forcing me to keep building suburbs. The high land value also keeps spreading to my undeveloped areas easily even when I build separate districts. I even tried a mod to let me build low rent high density housing and no one moves in.

[ekin]

AFAIK "small homes" complaint is because of low land value.

[hubb]

How do you confirm that small homes is the main reason for leaving? As far as I know, it only concerns high density homes. And according to my observations, sims live in those houses for many in-game years. When occurs massive movement out of the city, I do not see that high res buildings are getting abandoned quicker than those, who do not complain on small homes. To sum up, I am ignoring that. Because nothing I can do woth it. And it is not a problem.
It also arises in mid dense homes, but it is specially designed to be with small homes. I do not build it. As far as I understand, it is for students to be build near to universities...

[buda atum]

A lot of us Citizens here are complaining about the simulation in CS2 and wish our concerns were heeded. But it seems like in game where complaints can be ignored.

[firestream13]

Originally posted by mehmeteking:

AFAIK "small homes" complaint is because of low land value.

My high density residential buildings are complaining about small homes and the land value there is high. I think most of those people in those buildings prefer low density houses and there's not enough houses so they start to leave the city. Its basically forcing me to build a huge suburban area even if I eventually start running out of land to build on.

[CanuckBear]

Just add services to keep every building at least 'content', 'happy' preferably.
Unemployment should be reasonable too, if too high, add education capacity, also Welfare buildings. Never go below 100% on any city service, it's possibly bugged or unbalanced.

If you want high density buildings you don't need demand. Zone one building, wait to fill up, build the next one. The common mistake here is players zone beyond the cims' moving in rate of 750/h. I only build cities with high density and no demand whatsoever.

[Kedryn]

"small homes" means "I live in an apartment building".

You just have to have other things to keep them happy above that.

[sternenstaub70]

to keep people in your town (especially mid/high density areas) is to offer jobs, services, recreation (parks), public transport, good education nearby, commercial, good taxes,....
It seems something is completely missing in your city or you are milking the budget of your cims.

Do you have some screenshots of the worst parts of your city (including demographic information) ?

[Magic]

Small home has nothing to do with citizen leaving, it' just a trait that mainly depends on zoning density, although higher residential level and less famaily numbers helps.

[archonsod]

Originally posted by firestream13:

My high density residential buildings are complaining about small homes and the land value there is high. I think most of those people in those buildings prefer low density houses and there's not enough houses so they start to leave the city. Its basically forcing me to build a huge suburban area even if I eventually start running out of land to build on.

The only cims happy to live in small apartments are single cims and students. As soon as a cim gets a family, or retires, they want to live in the suburbs. Generally speaking unless there's other contributory factors small homes alone isn't sufficient for a cim to leave the city, though they will look to move into lower density housing as soon as a spot becomes available.

[Shahadem]

Citizens should move into high density buildings irregardless of land value. This game makes no fing sense. People move based on rent price and location to their job. Not on the value of the land they are moving on which they don't own anyways. And developers would love to buy low land value land.