Names for neighborhoods!

[Cheese]

The only custom hood I ever used was a sub-hood for Desiderata Valley, and it was called "Blue Bay Harbor". It actually turned out pretty nice, but I don't use it anymore since I bought Apartment Life. Belladonna Cove is my new obsession.

[Y2kRobie]

My one and only hood is called My Mother Fu%^ing Hood - Dont ask why I just get a kick out of seeing the game say its loading that,I know I need a life :/

[JanePstar]

Well, When I'm bored. And need a day where I can just sit at my computer and play in my little neighborhood. I made a neighborhood called "Erica's Playground" :p My name, and its my playground.

[miclab312_SC]

The only neighborhood I play is one I call RoseHill Forest.

[slipknot93]

I made one called Crystal Springs I think, never use it though, I stick with Pleasantview, I can't get into creatign everythign from nothing...

[I.nfectious_SC]

my current hood is called Crispwood
Crisp = my partners surname
wood = because it's full of trees

i've created it from scratch but I don't have time to build all the houses myself so i've downloaded about 90% of them, it's slowly starting to take shape and actually look like a neighbourhood

I forgot to put that I have collectively named all of Crispwood and it's sub-hoods The Land Of Green Ginger. named after an actual street in a city near me. I just think it's so cute lol..

[Tusnelda7]

Mine are all named after American States. Masachussettes for the main, Manhatten and California for the subs :P

[FablesOfEuphoria]

I've two custom 'hoods, Martello and FrizzleRock.

Both are pretty new, but Martello is the more expanded one with custom sub hoods- Alpin IT, Pheonix Place and JuneHill Village. It's where Rosalie Falls, my little legacy founder, is going to pop out some pixel spawn.
FrizzleRock probably won't get any subhoods because I want to see what it's like playing without them. It's going to be a secluded little neighborhood. You can guess by the name what kind of all year season it's going to have. I'm going to make a secluded little spot for some vampires, because no one is going to expect them to be in FrizzleRock. :P

[longdaysend]

only one custom hood right now Sage Valley.. it's pretty empty but the subhoods are packed up tight as sardines with sims :) Buglers Bog (downtown) Previa School for the Bookish (Uni) and S.A Homebase (shopping district-S.A= shopaholics annon.)

i'm still filling them all out at the moment :)

[MaddPuss_SC]

I have one I'm currently lazily working on. By working on, I mean bullying my boyfriend to make the actual maps. >.> he's the road designer not me. But uh. Said hood is a real fictional place that characters he and I write about live in. o_O It even has its own history, haha. It's ah..Ravenhurst, named so after a pirate founding it (he's micheal ravenhurst, whole different story, wot). The boyfriend's got most of the region built in his game, I just gotta get him to make some downtown areas and such. I'm even lazily working on the actual buildings that're in the town. Got The Wharf Rat Inn built already. =D *is a dorky dork of dorkness*

[lonestar2308]

hmm, i only have 3 custom hoods right now :D
- Mayfield Springs (my primary Nhood)
- Testing (the Nhood i use to make stories :P)
- Zenwood Town (my dark and somewhat disturbing Nhood :D i think i'm going to use it to make a mystery story later on lol)
and some Sub Nhoods
- Yale University (its like.. my dream school! haha.. lame right... :( )
- Mayfield College
- Ridgefield Waters (a shopping village)
- Lowerton (kinda like, downtown :D)

[PlushyPillows]

I'm currently playing a neighbor hood named Carmex Isle.

I couldn't think of anything real creative at the time so i just named it after my chap stick. :blink:

[SofieAmalieN]

My new Neighbourhood is called Somerset

[hexywoman79]

So far I've been playing the Uber-MegaHood but my custom hood (which I still have finished making CAS sims for) is called Rossmere. My downtown is called Westwood and Uni is going to be Rockford. That's all I've got so far.

[el_flel]

My new custom NH (currently under construction) is called Winchester Lakes - the Winchester part after those beautiful Supernatural boys, and the Lakes part because the NH template is Three Lakes from BV. The uni hood is really original (she says, sarcastically) - Winchester Lakes University, and the vacation hood is just named after the template (Moon Isles, or whatever it's called) until I can think of a better name. Often I have to build the NH up a bit before I can think of a good, fitting name.

[Nepheris]

I have two custom neighbourhoods that I play most.

The first is The Disc and houses my two legacies. The university is Unseen University, the shopping district and downtown are Ankh and Morpork respectively. All the houses are named using the same theme (except one which is the TARDIS). Guess what themes I'm using for my legacies ;)

The other neighbourhood is for a prosperity and is New Tamriel, the university is the only subhood I've customised so far and is the Arcane University.

Terry Pratchett! <3

[seriouscookie]

My newest hood is called "New Crackton" because this game is so addictive. I'm not sure I like it so far, though - I'm thinking of scrapping it for better neighborhood planning.

[mrputter]

My neighbourhood is called 'The Republic of Sam'.
I don't know why I called it that :P, but I've been using it for four years now, and it's absolutely huge!
It has the the 3 suburbs, a uni, a shopping area, 2 small islands, and the major city :D.

Unfortunately it takes aaaaaages to load, but it's sentimental value is enormous!

[simsample]

Unfortunately it takes aaaaaages to load, but it's sentimental value is enormous!
Make sure you backup each time you play! Just copy the N00x folder from Documents\ EA Games\ The Sims 2\ Neighborhoods to a safe place. It would be awful if anything happened to it!

[sammxo2010]

The custom hood I'm playing now is Sunset Valley. I have another called Harrisonville. I keep my hood titles plain.

[Aya a.k.a. Celtic Rose]

I had a custom neighbourhood before my game crashed for the umpteenth time and I had to remove and reinstall everything. I still miss that neighbourhood...

Anyway, it was called Murphy's Faire. Just to make it sound authentic I dug up an Irish dictionary for the names (because Flemish names just don't sound right when you've got the game set in English) and Murphy's Faire is actually a subtle reference to the folk song Finnegan's Wake (Faire means grave, if I remember it correctly), I named the Downtown Carrickdunne, influenced by a stone near a river I decided to call the Duinne (which means brown, I believe, which says a lot about the river itself :p ). Shopping area was called Duinne Valley with reference to the Dublin Liffey Valley shopping centre and University was called Pearse University (I'll leave the reference out here because it's kind of politically inspired) ~ I still have my custom buildings for the University! Yay! :anime:

(They cost me a lot of time and effort... )


I was planning on making a similar neighbourhood with Japanese names when the game crashed and refused to work completely. Gone either neighbourhood! :cry:

And I'm down to playing Belladonna Cove now (because I deleted all the other neighbourhoods) but it gave me a great idea! An entire neighbourhood with names based on witchy herbs and spices! :D



Once my computer learns to deal with more than one neighbourhood, I'll try all of them again :D


When I let my imagination go, it won't stop :blink:

[symphonyofdestruction_SC]

I called mine Canada.
haha xDDD


I had a custom neighbourhood before my game crashed for the umpteenth time and I had to remove and reinstall everything. I still miss that neighbourhood...

That happened to me too. :'/
ha.
I'm trying to re-download all my old cc again

[Dreamydre]

Clearwater Crossings and Bronwyn Ridge

[negneg189]

I am most likely the least interesting hood namer and creator known to the sims world.
I have never made a custom sub-hood. I add maxis subhoods to every neighborhood- all of them. My custom neighborhoods (I'm a frequent deleter) have been named everything from Legacy Island, to Pinewood Cove. All exceptionally boring, though.

[horcrux4571]

Let's see I have...
Cubeville-Legacy Hood

Don't ask why I named it Cubeville it just popped into my head.

[Sweetheidi]

I am currently playing in my own neighborhood called Pinelake, but I also have Rosewood Kingdom for my Royal Kingdom challenge.

[emmaline]

My favorite neighborhood right now is Snowberry Hills, a forest-y winter wonderland. Pine trees, ponds and snow, oh my!

[TisiphoneStar_SC]

My fave hood right now is called "Hero Ville" after the singer Hero from DBSK. It's a small town where everyone knows one another and news travels real fast! Once one of my sims pee'd herself and now the entire hood knows about it!

[MuffyandtheKats]

The Upper East Side-- based on Gossip Girl

Northwood Creek-- a ghost town

Vaunderview- takes place in the 1940s-ish

[phasha18]

I've named mine all sorts of things.

There was Temperville; Sepiana, Driftland and if memory serves me correctly I had a neighborhood called Charmed.

[I.nfectious_SC]

I'm really stuck for a name for my new hood. it's only small, & I plan on building all my own lots etc... (either from scratch or maxis make-overs) and I currently only have one family on it which is a legacy family. My other hood is called Crispwood, but I think i've already mentioned that :-?

[Wildchild453]

I just renamed my developing hood Heredon City

[BillyDee]

I only really focus on Pleasantville, tbh, and create sub-neighbourhoods as my population grows.

So, I have Bluewater Villiage as per and I currently have two sub-neighbourhoods

Das Begas: A desert neighbourhood where the Community lots are all nightclubs and/or casino type places and the houses are very modern, all have pools and people are rich

Eternal Pastures: A neighbourhood full of graveyards, including a pet cemetary. Full of tress. It only has three families - The Vampp Family, who are all vampires, the Moon family, who are werewolves and the Karloff family, who are all Zombies

[tillie_elaine]

my fave hood is called Uta's Revenge. Uta (pronounced with a "oooo" sound)happens to be my fav name so anytime i get a chance i use it. The first place I saw the name was in a medieval art book (she a sculpture Nuremburg Cathedral) and unique.
I don’t know where the revenge part came from. I think it makes the hood sound mysterious, like anything could happen their.

[xashers_x]

Hehe i name all my villages the places that they're called.
like oasis valley,
isla segundo,

etc
etc

how creative am i (not) :lol:

[simsample]

xashers_x, I don't blame you actually- the Maxis terrains have some beautiful names. Aridia, Crystal Springs, Driftwood... nice names!

[Lunaris_SC]

My all-time favourite neighborhood (the one I'm currently playing) is called Pulsing Rock, translation of the name of a town in my country (Dobogóko) that the legends say is (one of) the heart chakra(s) of the world.

[yinakori]

I'm not exceptionally creative, so I usually just play Maxis, but I made a new one for challenges, called Fallowgrounds.

I also have extra ones called Salina Springs and Teak Highlands.

Oh, and let's not forget Testerville XD

[-Chica]

I'm making a new tonight, it's going to be called 'Alpine Acres'....

Otherwise I'm building a house in Pleasentview [sp?] that's going to be called that, I really need to get a house that I like b/c I proportioned Matt & Decmeber's all wring for them and April. xP.

[dreamincitrus]

Everything I create is either inspired by names in Nevada, my homestate, or Austin, TX which is where I am now. I have a neighborhood named Driftwood (it has good BBQ), and all of the streets are named after ones in Austin. In my downtowns, I create well known hangouts from Austin, such as Spiderhouse, an outdoor coffee house, and many real clubs from 6th St. Most of my universities have dorms named after the counties in Nevada, Nye, Clark hall etc. So yeah. A lot of my neighborhoods are inspired from things in real life. :)

[lunaselene503]

Previously, I had been planning on making a town name Pixelvania ((like Pennsylvania)) but after reading some of the names of your neighborhoods mine seems very immature. Can you guys help me create a name for my neighborhood? Heres some info about it:

.Its quite suburbn but there is a downtown and shopping district.

.Most teenagers go to one college but one quarter goes to a fancy college and the other quarter goes to a party college.

.This neighborhood will be made of sims from CAS ((just with makeovers)). The same can be said about the homes. ((I currently have an obsession with making over premade things)).

[symphonyofdestruction_SC]

I called mine canada.
xDD

That's even more immature.

[lunaselene503]

Symphonyofdestruction: I coudnt help giggling when you replied. Thanks for the reply. I think I will take a page from xashers_x and name the neighborhood what it was called.

[AnnaLiz]

Reia is my only neighborhood for my Prosperity challenge (which is going to be blogged!).

[Catch]

The name of my Build A City Challenge is 'Far Far Away'. Shrek, yes. I fail at making up names. My sims' names are sometimes random objects.

[Miv_SC]

Sometimes I give mine the names of the neighborhood creation.

Island of Segundo
Viper Desert

XP

btw, whats a hood

[SofieAmalieN]

Sometimes I give mine the names of the neighborhood creation.

Island of Segundo
Viper Desert

XP

btw, whats a hood

Hood is just short for Neighborhood

[Deuling]

I made a place called Denarii City. I think Denarii is Ancient Roman currency. Anyway, this was my game/movie 'hood (nevor got the movies to take off). Then penny town (along the same lines as Denarii City (currency and all)), Then a place called Admiral City... Finaly created a Central City, then my game was more or less screwed (too many bugs, some from boolprops being left on) and I started a new game after WIndows was reinstalled. I remade Central City, and I might remake Denarii and Admiral city as well.


And so comes from the person who makes really long messages for things that can be said in 2 lines, say good bye (until next post) :howdy:

[ArkOrb]

I named my neighbourdhood after the Space ship from Alien 3, the one which Ripley arrives in on the planet.

It's name, and my neighbourhood, are called Sulaco.

[verbashka_SC]

I called my neighbourdhood Old Lake City :) And it means nothing except Old Lake city ^-^

[Essa]

When I started my Baac 3 months ago, I called my custom hood Nulparayeur (kind of No where else) then I shortened it to Parayeur. Now I named it Paray-Roches-Noires (Paray-Black-Stone) because of its black rocks.
I'm not really creative when it comes to naming things. :lol:

[beatnikbunny]

My first custom neighborhood was called Fruit Bowl, I cant recall why I named it that tho. However when I name any town I call it Lostin so that's what I have now.

[Roxy882_SC]

My custom hood's name is Findelia, and the main family I play is the Finn family.My very very first custom hood was named Francaisa..I thought it sounded cool..and the main family was the Francais :D

Anyone detecting a pattern? Lol...

[pck]

My first custom 'hood was Churchill Alpine, named after the mayor's name, Herald Churchill. But when I uninstalled Freetime, I fogort to backup memory and the whole memory erased :'(
Then I made a new 'hood, Dawnsville, where its winter for three seasons and spring for one season. :D

[jarod95]

Lost Villa...the name just pop up in my head....
its mean notin...just the name Lost Villa...

[whoachica5]

Mine is Istria.

[sophieacd_SC]

Cologneville...the name is so random.
My first custom neighborhood was La Fuente.

[Ghost sdoj]

I'm just building one from scratch, with a storyline that may or may not ever get played out.

Main Neighborhood: Erewhon
Downtown: The Shadowlands
Shopping district: Novaria
University: The Priory of Light

[Crayola_SC]

Mine is very childish...
It's called "Wonderland".

[kayleigh83]

I only play with custom hoods - I have Ferndale as my main hood. It wasn't really planned out at all or anything, so I created a sub-hood (shopping district) for it called Bridgemont and I'm creating the entire neighborhood first, before I begin to populate. It's coming along great! :)

[punkrockgoth1988]

My custom hood is called Huzat Village, which as it grows will change, but right now it's small enough to be considered a village.

[KrazyKat81]

I play a mix of maxis and custom.

The two custom hoods I currently have are the very rural Humble Point (loosely based on Smallville) and a permanent winter hood from Neighborly Sims called A Micro Christmas - it's quite magical with permanent snow.

[SimKelsey9_SC]

My neighboorhoods name is *drum roll* Simsalot!!!!!! =D

[Lu.]

My custom hood is called Onekama, after a real town. The downtown is called Crash after the Bon Jovi song, Captain Crash and the Beauty Queen from Mars...
hehehe.
Then the shopping district is called Kalamazoo. Also a real town (believe it or not).

[ajaacooly]

Driftwood Bay yea, I know original right XD
Harbor Academy (the College)

[clw8]

I've had many, but,the one I've been playing for a month or so now is called "Trout Harbor" - an island with beachlots housing house boats -

[ani_]

I'v used the name Basin City quite alot, maybe for the last 4 -5 hoods that I'v started, but now I have Middleground. Kept the name that came with the Middleground terrain from mts2.

[71michelle]

I've had:
Silent Falls
Snowpine Valley
The Aradia Project
I've just started one called Hourglass Bay, i think i had an idea to do a soap opera NH, but PV is already soap-operaish, so i might delete it. I can't be bothered spending all those hours making all those shops and parks etc! I'll probably start Aradia Project again, since that got deleted soon after i started it, because i wanted to set PV back to its original state. I didn't know how to set NH's back to default properly so i just uninstalled/re-installed an ep. I hope i don't break my game.

[heytuesday]

Some neighbourhoods I had/have:
Sharella Cove
Emerald Valley
Upton Rivers
Lakeview Park

[Ketinka_SC]

I struggled for ages - okay, actually about ten minutes - over a name for the Pleasantview Downtown, until I hit on the idea of looking up "Pleasant" and "View" in a thesaurus...
... and thus, Amicable Prospect was born.

[royalinedebi_SC]

My most recent neighbourhood is Nova Parks.

[goforfink]

Ashby Falls
Xyphaleen
Pine Lake
Kai Mountain
Amberton
Lightville

.... Way too many! :)

[1306]

To me, all my hoods end with -woods, -ville, or has a random name + Hills, Woods, etc. It's an easy thing to name hoods from there on.

[swirlyfish]

Selkirk Island
Rush Byre
Mufflon Bay
Nobodobee Cross
Jungledance Acres (on a desert no less)
Linalool Lodgings
Blancmange Beacon
Arbristo
Onionville
Turkey Point
Black Diamond Bay
St. Augustine

I think that's if for the moment. Feel free to use them.

[kiddO.]

I have two Neighbourhoods, the first is called Carmilla, because i took the Name of my best Friend Camilla as inspiration. Seahaven, the second Neighbourhood, is named after a City which occurs in one of R.L. Stine's Books about the Fear Street. It's a small Harbor City, so i think that matches good... I like both Names very much.

[barbiegirl221995]

I use:
Riverview
Grant Park
Capitano Bay
Laguna Beach
basically named after already places.

[Aya_Alexa]

well the three maxi ones was deleted, and i made a new one called EverDale, im planning on making another called SimpleRiver Valley but i think that will be long.

[bubble101]

I have a custom neighborhood called Shellville and it has my best ever family - the Livingstons, on generation 6. They are the only serious family there. Shellville is nicely ordered with road names such as Marsh Lane, Poverty Lane and West Leigh Avenue. I also have Hollywood where I create my Sim movies. Most of the hollywood inhabitants get killed off once their part is finished.

[kittysimmy]

I have a neighborhood called Foreverview, which is my favourite, and another called Saddle Valley.

[Sparklycookie]

I have Puddingworld, which was my old legacy neighbourhood, Pinewood, where I build houses, Merry Isle, which is a neighbourhood I'm planning to blog about, Mount Bianca, which is home to my new legacy, and Daybreak Rivers, where the Falls live, another legacy neighbourhood. I have loads of neighbourhoods with weird, random names as well.

[KittyKuba]

I just thought up a new name for my Victorian-inspired story challenge- Heaven Falls.
If I ever get around to creating it, I might post the "challenge" I came up with.

[stygia2002]

My "supernatural" neighborhood is called Ravenloft, named after the D&D campaign setting. And I have a neighborhood named after my hometown.

[xemptybrkneyesx]

My legacy neighborhood is named Whilestown.

Have no idea why. O.o

[benjamin2010]

Well, my neighborhood is called Madison Heights, oddly enough after the high school that used to exist in a town near mine.
I only have one sub-neighborhood so far, called Madison Beach. Eventually there will be more.

[clockworkapple]

I have a custom NH I've never used called Beixi (bei/北=north) and (xi/希= hope [among other things]). So roughly "North Hope" in Mandarin. (I'm shit at it, but whatevs) It's winter year round.

I think I'm going to use it for the Build a City Challenge

[Wild Missingno]

I've taken to naming any custom hoods Sedona (I usually only play one custom neighborhood at a time, deleting the hood when I get bored with it), ever since I've found out I can get those camera flyby movements in custom neighborhoods just by giving the hood a certain name. Before, I just used Moontown. I'm not sure where I've got that name from, though, other than that I do tend to populate my hoods with supernatural creatures.

[Vintage_Eve]

My town name is "Sunset Ville" .. i dunno where i got this one it just popped out in my mind..

[lucablight27]

Waffle Ville, plain genius I know :P

though in my case the place is shaped like a pancake. Plenty of trees, pirate ship and theres 5 castles on the place, each owned by a sim who has made 3 million. Awosome right? I Know :D

[Diamond123Girl]

I have a few some based of novels and some completely made up. Hogesmeade+Hogwartz which i never did finish i also made Privet drive lol.Most of the names i create for neighbourhoods aren't that clever i mean i couldn't think of anything and called a neighbourhood adventure land rofl but i did call one something like BerneVille or ooh maybe even barrymoore lol

Since im going to be creating a place of horror and i don't want to call it the land of the living dead i might name it after a phobia xD

Achluo-fear of darkness ^^ omg Achluo Aglio sounds like a spell from harrypotter. I guess if i was making a desert place of dead people i'd call it Destination or End of the road xD lol

:rolleyes: Nooo! maybe even raccoon city from resident evil

[Tina9340]

I always use the Bluewater template, so I end up calling my towns "Bluewater Village" or the "Town of Bluewater". xD Yeah, I'm so original.

[Jellytots]

I have loads, but the ones I use most are Carraine, London Derry, and BellaDonna Cove (Not a maxis one)

Carraine has all the richies and London Derry has pooer people... BellaDonne Cove has two sides, teh rich and poor...

[Vintage_Eve]

My Sunset Ville..I am using desiderata valley template as my town...

[Diamond123Girl]

I have loads, but the ones I use most are Carraine, London Derry, and BellaDonna Cove (Not a maxis one)

Carraine has all the richies and London Derry has pooer people... BellaDonne Cove has two sides, teh rich and poor...

What game was the maxis BellaDonne Cove from? i love neigbourhoods with rich and poor sides to them. I usually have my rich sims in their mannors high up in the hills townie city sims in the middle and poor sims just outside the city sims. And beach areas near the beach although ive never done beach lots but that is how i'd have it =]

And community lots spread around in available spaces.

[Sparklycookie]

Belladonna Cove is from Apartment Life.

I reinstalled, so now I have Merry Isle, Clover Lake, which is a legacy neighbourhood, and Ocean, from my old game, copied from a backup I made before reinstalling. I moved Merry Isle into my main game.

[Got Milk?]

My only premade neighborhood is named after my fav actress Elizabeth Taylor - Rosemond.Its her second name :lovestruc

[KittyKuba]

My only premade neighborhood is named after my fav actress Elizabeth Taylor - Rosemond.Its her second name :lovestruc

That's my great uncle's name.

And one of my fav actresses is named Rosamund Kwan. I have plans to use her name in my Victorian neighborhood.

[888mph]

Believe it or not, I actually created custom neighborhoods (now deleted) under "Area 51" and "Elsewhere". I think it'd be cool to create one under an actual city on Earth, especially a major world one (ex. New York City, Sydney, Shanghai, Los Angeles).

[Diamond123Girl]

Believe it or not, I actually created custom neighborhoods (now deleted) under "Area 51" and "Elsewhere". I think it'd be cool to create one under an actual city on Earth, especially a major world one (ex. New York City, Sydney, Shanghai, Los Angeles).

Yeah i wanted to create New york and place aload of celebs i found on the internet but it was so hard i gave up. I do love fantasy ones' though or victorian neighbourhoods. I made a medival one once built a castle which took months it was like one of those proper castles not fairy castles. Had a queens room and everything and then my game crashed and i lost it :(

I made a fantasy disney based one aswell with cinderella in it and another with rugratz xD yep. I love strange town now but i use it as a desert based area rather than a strange place :lol:

[Diamond123Girl]

i had a idea about one called Sinville or something. Phantasmn,Cherry patch ^^ lol

[DM was on fire!]

My main neighborhood is Isla Segundo, which is also the file name for the terrain. I liked the name so I used it.
My other neighborhood is Townville. I was clueless as to a name, so I took a page from the book of Townville, South Carolina (http://www.sciway.net/city/townville.html). XD

[GeneralOperationsDirector]

I have never *played* any of the EA/Maxis default neighborhoods, but I haven`t deleted them, either. I have *loaded* one or two, though, just to snoop around, or because I needed to load SOMEthing in order for the game to let me into the built-in browser.

Immediately upon installing Double Deluxe, about a year ago, I created my first custom `hood from the "Crystal Springs" template, and named it Crystal Springs. I know, very original. :) I then created a teen named Lisa First, but the game wouldn`t let me exit CAS without an adult in the family, so I made her mother, Shawna First. For a long time this was the ONLY family in my neighborhood, except for Townies. Shawna, a Romance Sim, seduced her mailman and got him to move in. HE married another Townie, as did Shawna, so I have TWO families living on that first lot. Thanks to the Green Goo of Life, they STILL live there. After a while, I added a custom Downtown from the "Sample" template, and eventually named it "Uptown". It is still nearly empty, and has no residential lots. I later added the standard Downtown, and kept the default name of "Downtown". Somewhere about this time, I started actively recruiting Townies for player-characters, and also created a few more CAS sims with custom non-genetic skins. All of the expensive houses in Downtown are occupied, none of the inexpensive ones are [but all HAVE BEEN, and are thus now UNfurnished], and most of the residential lots in Crystal Springs itself are occupied. [I`m in desperate need of MID-range prebuilt houses....]

As I installed the various expansion packs [notably University and Bon Voyage], I installed the standard sub-`hoods that came with them into Crystal Springs with their default names. ALL of them, all three University campuses and all three vacation destinations. I have not yet installed any aditional custom sub-`hoods, nor have I installed Open for Business yet at this writing, though I will in about a week or so, and intend to install whatever default business district it may come with, if any.

In addition to Crystal Springs, I have several other custom `hoods, none of which have any sub-`hoods, and whose use is [or should be] obvious from their names:

* Testing Neighborhood, also based on the Sample template
* Lot Bin, based on the Grid City template downloaded from MTS2
* Beach Lot Testing Neighborhoo (I think the "d" got cut off by string-length limits when I created the `hood, or I could just be misremembering it), based on a template suitable for creating at least one beach lot and at least one non-beach lot, both lots facing the same direction, and never entered.

The last two neighborhoods have NO Sims in them whatsoever, save those that I was unable to prevent the game from generating automaticaly.

Edit: I misremembered the neighborhood name. :) It`s "Testing Neighborhood" that has the "d" cut off, and then only by the display, not by string-length limits.

[KittyKuba]

I've never played the default neighborhoods, I had deleted them but after restoring from back ups I just left them. Might infiltrate them with my wacky and odd characters.

[joninmobile]

Every time I have ever used the sims 2, I always had a neighborhood called TheNinthWave where I do all my testing and picture taking and some playing once in a blue moon. The description of TheNinthWave is: "This is my neighborhood" it's on a driftwood template, which I always used that one even before I had a TheNinthWave neighborhood. I just like the flatness of it and you can place a lot of lots there. I've done several countless uninstalls and reinstalls of the entire sims 2 and all EPs and SPs I have as well as a few system recoveries, but I always make sure to make a custom neighborhood called TheNinthWave and describe it as "This is my neighborhood" on driftwood. I sometimes keep the Maxis neighborhoods but never use them. Only time I used a Maxis neighborhood was to take some pics for an upload.

[Prosthetics]

I always delete all Maxis-made neighborhoods, all of mine are custom. And boringly enough, I name them after real towns. My current fixation is named after my hometown, Crystal Springs, and I used a custom template that I forget the name of.

[IloveGarbage]

My Neighborhood is named Shirley Mansonville... :)

[Blooper Reel]

My neighbourhood is known as Seafarer's Cove, mainly because the neighbour terrain is one of the three four corners terrains (Sadly, there is no available terrain of Bitville.) and the fact the community lots have a sort of "Beachside feel".

(Why does the good looking sliding of the sims life stories makes the sims 2 sliding choices for walls look like it came from a junkyard somewhere from The Urbz? *Sigh*)

[IrishGrace]

My current one and only neighborhood is called Summer Forest.

[Cabrini6000]

I named one Bannaville...
And appletown
Pearworld


I like fruit names

[GuardStud08]

I finally made a New Hood called Mercy Heights!! It has a few beach lots, a motel and a Hotel.

[cin8733]

I like to play with my own neighborhoods, I use Red Dawn, Purple Oaks, Crossroads, Destiny's Way, Lake Placid, Willow's Pond, Morning's Dew, Lakeview and a few others.

[Qahne]

Moved all families and inhabited lots from the three default 'hoods into one gigantic 'hood, deleted the default ones, and named it Blue Lakes. Added about 190 original Sims, in 70 or so households, to the 'Lakes, and added a large shopping district to it. I have two Downtown subhoods: Liberty Shores, with seven houses; Las Virtudes, with casinos and wedding chapels and a ton of shady motels and mansions, as well as a ton of apartments. And, of course, the single, default Shopping District, Bluewater Village, remains intact.


Among the famous, downloaded faces are:
Oprah Winfrey, who lives in the largest, most modern LV mansion, Tivouse.
Paris Hilton and Britney Spears, living together in Phaenoh's Redneck Mansion, which I have partitioned into apartments.
And, of course, the cast of Desperate Housewives, each in their own home, decorated in perfect sync with the show.

Also, as a whole, there are: 13 Vampires, 9 Female, 4 Male; 19 Werewolves; 22 Evil Witches and 15 Good Witches.

[wlionrjl]

I must have deleted and rebuilded my neighbourhoods 10 times already but I always recycle the names Cape Isla and Magnolia Falls. My subhoods have boring names like City or Cape Isla National University (CINU) :P

[stygia2002]

Raven's Bluff (I stole that from an old D&D scenario)...Mysticor Meadows

[Marcalyn]

I am lousy at naming things, but my favorite custom hood is Blue Island. I got the idea from Bluewater. The other custom hood I like secondary to it is Bluedale.

[supersimoholic]

i always call mine "Amanshire" i decided it's a town the outskirts of Sim City, but dosn't get many passing through.

my middle name is Amanda, so i wanted to use that.

i decided i was gonna use the first half "Aman-" and i went through all the endings i could think of until i got "Amanshire"

and whenever i make a new breed of dog or cat, i call them an "Amanshire Terrier", or "Amanshire short-haired" or something like that.

and the only community lot (don't like making them) is the Amanshire Mall

well, you get the idea XD

[c8tlin452]

My custom hood I play all the time is called [Junderville]. I also have a spare called [Clevedoile]

[Elvie]

Oceanpearl - a small island hood.
Trevligstad - my fave hood. Trevligstad means "nice town" or "pleasant town" in Swedish, the language I'm studying now.
Formerly, there were other 'hoods, named after Maxis SC4 terrains (I didn't download custom SC4s back then).

[RebaLynnTS]

I just recently started playing Sims 2 on an ongoing basis, so my first (and only) custom hood is named after the town I live in, McDonough.

I'd like to do one based on a sci-fi novel I am writing, but unless I can get some character meshes made (or learn how to do it myself), I doubt I'll bother. I think it would be cool to make a Sim movie based on it.

[VladCrau]

I used to play the premade hoods, but only because I s*cked big time at making... well, anything.

After I got a few EPs and SPs, I decided it's time to try and make a hood of my own. I had anything, from Simville and Simtropolis (not very successful ones) to City 17(part of a failed project for HL2 style lots).

As of... I don't know, a week or two, I have a hood called "Kingdom of Sim" (might rename it to Simtonnia, but not so sure). And it's just what the name says. A kingdom, with a few subhoods as farmlands, harbor etc. It contains several lots I'm working on: ruined Elven cathedral, 2 peasant homes and a fortified landlord farm.
Oh, and I deleted the premade hoods.

[Bellasaurus]

I only have one hood - Bellaville. Truly original I am not :P

[indonesiast]

My lovely custom neighborhood, "Arcadia Island". Brad Star and Angelina Star is rich as Goths, The Brownstone son, Dick Brownstone fell in love with Isabella Punks, the Punks daughter, but their parents are enemies. And the twin Don Asabillo and Juan Asabillo continue their Don Juan life, when their mother want to have a grandchild.

[supersimoholic]

My Town is called Bethesda, After the best game company (sorry EA)

WOOO!!! go TES!

i love the name Bethesda, i'm gonna name my dog Bethesda.

[Croutonian]

I named my custom neighbourhood Croutonia. Which then led to me using Croutonian for a username lol
It all comes from an inside joke with a friend about croutons...can't really explain!

[perihelion]

I'm in the process of making an as-English-as-possible seaside village called Rockbottom.

I considered calling it Woohoo-on-the-Green.

*high-five*

I only have two custom hoods at the moment:

Atlantis Point: Where my main sims live. Has Berlinghoff University attached and not much else. I'm considering scrapping it and rebuilding because the terrain is so damned ugly.
Studio 47: the rather industrial-looking hood which basically serves as a giant machinima studio. Home to my Star Trek fanfilm.

[CrazyVivian]

When I create neibourhoods, I always stick with the name "Velocity". I don't know why I like that word so much, but I guess it would suit a post-apocalyptic neibourhood. I don't know if there is actually a town named "Velocity".

[Rectos Dominos]

My main neighborhood which is the one I spend the most time on is my screen name.

[xxGuyxx]

My first custom neighborhood was Serenity Hills (named after Riverblossom Hills since it's built on the same map) but I'll be changing the name when I take care of other things.

I made another neighborhood, named it Dorset Island, after the Dorset Island map I made it on (yeah, I'm usually too lazy to think of clever names myself :jest: )

[wthrwthoutyu]

Let's see...I've had Jackass Flats, Bump, Vinegar Hill, Darkish, Martinsville (old 'hood, now deleted, that was established on Martin Luther King Day), Hadderly, School's Island, Lemmington; and universities named Arivada Tech, Nevazona U. and Dakifornia Academy.

Hadderly is my current Apocalypse neighborhood; Vinegar Hill and Darkish (which used to be called Brandywine) are still in game and non-crashing. The three universities are all current. I also have an empty 'hood called BuildNTest, for, well, building and testing stuff. :)

[suikostar108]

I had a desert named "hot" for obvious reasons... "bliss" was lush ...and "woe is me" has warehouses, a trailer park, some of Gallilea's houses, an abandoned ranch and vegas type strip mall with a gas station, chapel, and grill.

[Amtram]

I use what I think are simlish-sounding names for all my sims, lots, neighborhoods, and sub-neighborhoods. Modishay Vanu got lost in an upgrade, so now all my new sims live in Vastu Glarn. The young adults all attend Kobovidu State. They shop at Grodayascha Commons, and work out at Frobischer Gym. If they think they can get away with it, they'll sneak out for some woo-hoo at the Badagron Motel. Coming up with names is part of the fun for me with this game.

[mursupiiras]

I don't remember my old neighborhoods that I had before my hard-drive crash...
But my current one is named Silver Lake, almost freshly started.
I probably just heard that somewhere and it just came first into my mind B:

[criminalmindscrazy]

my neighbor hood names are so lame but some are Villian Central (for all the bad boys), Gotham City (my least played neighborhood and based off of the Dark Knight), Hollywood (only thing that i could think of), and Slyhterin's Canyon (based on harry potter when i was obsessed with it). But i like mursupiiras's name; Silver lake i like that. mind if i borrow? i also like Silver town. thanks for the ideas!

Smiles from the Joker,
~Jokeress

[JRD7]

Enlightenment Cove

[m-a-r-s]

Gotham City (filled with superheroes and villains)
Lost Island (filled with characters from the TV show LOST)
Sportsmans Park (filled with characters based on professional athletes and sports personalities)

[lightingft]

My neighbourhood isn't very creatively named, it's called River of Fame.

[GeneralOperationsDirector]

After hearing a song by this title on the radio, I am seriously considering adding a new sub-`hood named Funky Town to the world of Crystal Springs. I plan on placing all of my weirdest downloaded lots there, and populating it with most of my odder Sims.

[InsamePsychoRabbit]

I'm not very creative with neighborhood names. My first custom neighborhood was just called "The neighborhood." I had to stop playing it shortly after I got Apartment Life because of Inteenimater.
I've recently started over again with neighborhoods called "Moon Islands" (my legacy 'hood, using the SC4 map of the same name) and "Castle Hill" (actually a sub-hood of himawara106's Golden Creek, it's named after an old white castle on the hill currently owned by my Organization XIII sims). I also used to have a 'hood named "Radiant Garden" that housed my FF8 sims, but I stopped playing it.

I do however like to give stories to my neighborhoods. The Moon Islands, according to its own local legend, gets its name from the local werewolf population. In Castle Hill I'm currently creating an Organization XIII soap opera. :rolleyes:

[fluttereyes]

I use names of villages around me or Scottish names I know, like Aberfeldy, Luss, Balloch, Aberfoyle. I prefer small country neignbourhoods to big town like ones. Can't wait for create a world (lol). I haven't done any decent naming in sims 3 but those were the names I used in sims 2.

[Kailacat]

I have
-Sweet Neighborhood (the first neighborhood I made, and my main one) (I should seriously rename it. it's such the "perfect" neighborhood and since I've been adding more romance and poorer sims, I should call it something different.)
-Movies (obviously a neighborhood where I make movies.)
-Uglies (after the Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld. The teens move off to the main neighborhood, then they go to college "Prettytown")

[computermichael]

My first was Crescent Island, Then Dark Falls, Then MARS! By the way, a weird ufo with blue fog showed up in my neighborhood hovering over my houses. Is this normal?

[darkwarrior5558]

Here are some suggestions, they came randomly...
Asuria, Bolivia, Berginia Island, Lomar , Celestius Island, Rockport, Centermill, Oaklin, Pine-a-balus, ( of course ) Simcity, Eastwood, Eagleport, Darkovia, Vincinville, Black Mountain, CatacombFalls, Freakview, Bloodmoon, Twilight Zone, Camio-royel----------
( Cam-E-O-Roy-EL), FiscalTown, Stormypeaks, Twinmoon, Firelight, Garrison Flats, Vio du Guard, Memphis, Romulus, Dockson Peaks, ViolaTown, Ader Island, and finally!!!!!
Del-rio nem lemLockhart

[IloveNick]

I would name a town called Llama because after all that's the sims mascot!

[darkwarrior5558]

True, but Llama is kinda..... :wtf: Nevermind. xD

[IloveNick]

ha edit: Llama Spits for a town name

[Blush]

My favorite neighborhood is Pumpkin Patch.
Haha, NO! It's not all about Halloween.
n__n

[darkwarrior5558]

:lol: ,Still good name. xD

[ForeverCamp]

So far I have a few different 'hoods in addition to Maxis ones - most of them are for separate challenges:

Hadley - my 'hood of choice for the Fates challenge. Created on a custom terrain of the same name.

Mayberry Plains - my 'hood of choice for the Yeoman Farmer challenge. Made on Desiderata Valley's terrain.

I have also had neighbourhoods named Loch Namara (my first all custom 'hood, map included - most of the community lots I made myself came from there), Moorstown, Curtis Valley, Satran...

[CrazyVivian]

I just named a forested neibourhood Black Forest, after the delicious cake. :D

[ForeverCamp]

I just named a forested neibourhood Black Forest, after the delicious cake. :D

LOL, I've actually met a real life person from Black Forest (I'm pretty sure it's in Germany, she was an exchange student living with some family friends...)

[velvetsun]

I've only made one neighborhood so far, and I'm actually in the process of creating sims in order to populate it. It's called Maybury Estates; I've been working on the shopping center/supermarket for a bit now: I decided to call that Maybury Mart. Man, I really do love alliteration. xD

[darkwarrior5558]

I like just letting the ideas flow into my mine. Get the 'Create Cells' pumping! You know what i meen? I just like creating, bascily, sims2 is awsome for me. But i believe after you play Sims3 long enough, it boring, crappy, stupid. I totally regreted playing it.

[somethingelse]

i just kinda name them something that matches my exparament at the moment, for instance, the sunworshipping cult neighborhood is called sunnidale, or sunnivale, some such thing. it's names for sims i have a hard time with, i have alot of bobs, dudes, guy is a big fave of mine. for womin folk i call them shiela, babygirl, or i'll get all silly with their last name. i made a wifeysue knewby as the mom for a "family tree" challenge bastardisation i'm toying with for my own joy.

i have another sim who's name is frybaby freakshow, cause she lives in the cult neighborhood, but she's pale. i plan on making one of her kids like vamps so she can be ostrascized by everyone. everyone else hates them...

i was doing a town populated by serial killers and i called it "murderville" i doubt i'll win any creativity ribbons...

[lg135]

I've only got one customhood, and that's only to create and put down real homes I've been in without them getting mixed in with already established 'hoods. I've lamely named it, "RH" :P

But I do have a custom subhood in Belladonna =) I asked my friend to come up with something that would compliment the original hood's name, so after awhile he threw out "Carinasera"... He said it meant 'Lovely Evening', but when I googled it, it sounds like "Cute Evening" (maybe he looked through an Italian thesaraus or something) but I had already entered it, so I guess I'm stuck? lol Next time I'll think of a name myself.

[Kailacat]

You can change the name of both neighborhoods and subhoods. When you're in a neighborhood you can change the subhood names, but you can't change them from the main menu.
I have my neighborhood which used to be called Sweet Neighborhood, but now it is called Bittersweet Valley because it is completely different now.
Then SimVille. Which is an AWESOME creation!
Both of those I play a lot. I was going to make a new neighborhood, but instead I renovated Sweet Neighborhood and downloaded Simville.

[Invertin]

At the moment I'm using the defaults, but I used to have my own hood. I called it Redgrove. It kind of sounds like an old English town or something.

I think it was filled with crazy people.

My Sims are normally crazy people.

I do remember at one point I tried to come up with a variation on the Apocalypse challenge, and that was in "Sunset Hill".

Which was ironic because in my variation sunlight was deadly.

[darkwarrior5558]

Not at sunset, when your relieved its going down and becoming night. Esspecially for your nightwalker sims.

[midnightmonkey28]

My main neighborhood is called Newport. :)

[jooxis]

I really suck at naming, especially naming community lots... my current and only neighbourhood I'm playing is Juniper Island.

[packardcaribien]

My main Neighborhood is called paradise. I don't really have any sub-hoods, aside from Pemberton Univeristy. Also, fictionally, the County is Plesant County. It's in the state of Central Carolina (between South and North Carolina)

All the streets have names, and all the specific streets share an architechtural style. Also the house "model" names have something to do with the street name. Ie, Cherokee Lane is full of Craftsmans, and one of them is called "The Sioux"

[Couriervaughan]

My main neighborhood is Northridge place

[Prosthetics]

I started a cleaned 'hood recentlly, it's named Macro Meadows and is being developed by a construction company. Most of the jobs within Macro Meadows are within the construction career, and I have it set up so that the money isn't coming from "nowhere"

[fthomas]

My first was called 'Forest Glen', but I abandoned it :L.
My brother's first was called 'Over the Hill' :P.

Now mine is called 'Misty Beaches' and it has a downtown called 'Morganville' which is home to many vampires who smoke 60 a day and listen to constant jazz music (:

[clockworkapple]

My new custom hood uses the veronaville map with desert terrain... it's called Rio de Esperanza

[Selly_2009]

I have little inspiration when it comes to naming neighbourhoods most of the time - my custom one has the rather boring name of "Samplier", simply because the template I used was the "sample" one!

My other custom one (besides HP's Uber-Megahood) is named Appleby Orchards... though currently there isn't a tree in sight! When I eventually get round to playing it again it'll begin to look more like it's name. :)

[noobkiller138]

i like to make weird, often politcally incorrect sims :Pint: . my 2 neighborhoods are
Area 51
Secret government cotainment compound

[sEv_o6]

HAHA! I am a Final Fantasy VIII :wtf: :D :bunny: Addict And I made a 'Hood and Named it Balamb Garden and every house inside has a specific name related to FF :D

[Achii]

I only have one Custom Neighborhood, filled with rich sims and big houses, that's delightfully named 'Something Fishy' :D

[woodenbear]

The city I was building before the crashing was called Gottalotta City.

[Charmful]

I had a custom hood I wanted to sound exotic but have it in California so I called it 'Leopa del Kashmire' and made it an island...but then my sister turned off the game while it was saving and totally evaporated it. So I made a new neighborhood with the same terrain type called 'Isla Del Kashmire' and in it's description I wrote "Was untouched by the devastating earthquake that hit it's sister island"

So I play that now with three custom down towns
Pandora - A desert/mini Vegas place
Memosa Bay - A cosmopolitan city framed after Seattle
Scanalica City - An every-urban setting.

[Astraea Nevermore]

I have three custom neighborhoods. The first one is called 'El Paso' and was supposed to be inspired to the original city in Texas, but I never finished the project :| Then I have 'Photohood', which was created just to have some sceneries to take pictures of my sim creations, especially celebrities. :P The last one is 'Driftwoods', named after the neighborhood template, 'cos I really ran out of fantasy XD it's the first neighborhood I ever built in its entirety and it turned out pretty nice. Since I didn't really know how to name streets and community lots, I ended up using names from songs and movies I like :jest:

[ForeverCamp]

Since I didn't really know how to name streets and community lots, I ended up using names from songs and movies I like :jest:

I did that for my pet project, Loch Namara. The town name was completely random, but then I had themes for each of the mini-neighbourhoods in the town:
1. Lower-class area: had female names for streets, ala Isabella Crescent, Tracy Drive, etc.
2. Middle-class area: had nobility titles for streets, ala King Street, Marquis Cove, etc.
3. High-class area: streets were all named after Shakespeare plays, ala Merchant of Venice Boulevard, Othello Avenue, etc.

[bluemoonKIT]

CLockwork apple love the name by the way it caught my eye i love the original orange LMAO.

any way my custom hood is named after me in a way KitsTillSprings I have recreated this hood with three different templets about five times after computer crashes thefts and uberhood experimentation. I finally downloaded a map that I honestly love not to big or small. I basically moved all six hods into this one playable sims only and created my 7 rich sim familys each with focus in a sector of work.

1. school- Freshoph Junsen and family Owner/founders of Freshoph Junsen university and the current back of Kitstillsprings Michael Landgraab was made their cousin he was named the mayor since he is so good with real estate.
I also made Francis worthington a cousin as well he is in charge of the liquor store and landry mat. the own and operate the pre-school elementary and high schools as well.

2. Resturaunts- Vieneda family has their own farm and serves international food since they are from the middle east

3. Mystical wares-the Majik Family is an offshoot of my own personal family anything magickal they have thier hand in it lol.

4. Natural food and grocery- the McAfees rule this avenue the vieneda's actually pay their mortgage on the farm to the Mcafee's

5. Construction-The Alden build everything so to speak Four of the family members are city planners. and they own the real estate offices and are paid for their job placement services. basically they are the business tycoons too rivals to the landgrabs

6. Real estate- The contender i couldn't resist and the debateau families were joined and just because of the contender name and debateau money i decided to make them own a piece of everything this is my legacy family that vacations most of the year and manages about ten different community lots. If someone wants a fashion shop or a flower shop it just might be one of their fanchises.

7. entertainment-you need a band or a magician at a party call the Chesterlings they konw someone, own someone, or raised someone for the job.

8. i forgot i just created the perfect family literaly that is their name Juan and Juanita Perfect are plantsim witches. I created them to do home based business experiment fishing sewing painting gardening, potions witchey wares and regents and writing novels and articles

I have a sub hood of Flashing Meadows where my plant sims live and a shopping hood that is called colleio shopeio. this is the only hood that has a liquor store. and laundry mat. i don't know what i was thinking with that one but i can't think of anything else and it always makes me smile.

I have a uber rich family the junsen's (they act as the bankon most transactions) inspired by my college hood Freshoph Junsen University this university has no dorms all the students have to be able to afford their own place to go to school here. I originally wanted it to be just for my students pursuing their masters degree but then i just decided my rich sims only would be better suited. i kept the three original colleges and sent my aliens and plantsims to La fiesta tech my under achievers to sims state it has a 85% drop out rate LOL and my over achieving middle classers go to acedme le tour.

[bluemoonKIT]

I like to take common words and put it them in Spanish or French to make them sound more exotic. Nueva Verde was the first of many I did along this theme. I've lived in several towns that had names like that ... Villa Rica and Punta Gorda for example. In English those names wouldn't be so great.

thank goodness for foreign languages that last one is pretty harsh but funny you must have been mad that dayLMAO :rofl:

[julia100]

My neighborhood is called Beaconsfield, after my own neighbourhood. I currently only have 3 sub-hoods as I just recently started Beaconsfield. There are two vacation hoods, one is a Twikki-island type neighbourhood called South Beach. The other is more of a cape cod cottagey hood called Pine Haven. Lastly, I have a custom university called Bellview University

[OUCloud]

currently working on

Rattlesnake Flats, Tx
Oklahoma University

sim clouds

[GeneralOperationsDirector]

After hearing a song by this title on the radio, I am seriously considering adding a new sub-`hood named Funky Town to the world of Crystal Springs. I plan on placing all of my weirdest downloaded lots there, and populating it with most of my odder Sims.I have begun work on this, only it is "Funkytown", one word, not "Funky Town", two words. I made it as a Downtown `hood, not as a Shopping District `hood, and I used the funkiest-looking map I could find, with round plateaus at varying heights. I don`t have many families living there yet, but there are a few, including a pair of female Pleasure/Family Vampyres who are building a cliff-side castle-esque building mostly from funds from the Gamer career reward and a Money Tree [they`ll probably get more Money Trees, though, as Vampyres don`t need the Green Goo of Life. :)] I also have "A Different Kind of Home" there [occupied by the family that owns the bakery in OfB] and the Gingerbread House. More *will* follow, although details will not appear in *this* thread. :D I also haven`t done much in the way of neighborhood decorations yet, but I placed a very nice waterfall at one edge of the map over the weekend, as well as a few birds, airplanes, and other animated effects, including Musical Notes arising from A Different Kind of Home.

[DigitalMonster]

I recently began work on a new island neighborhood. Im still thinking of a name, but I have it narrowed down to Pearl Island and Coral Bay. Any input?

[windclan]

Haven't actually made a neighborhood yet but I plan to name the first one I make Tallpines and Fourtrees will be a community lot in the middle of it.

Also I might make a neighborhood that will be a paradise for creative Sims called Deir el-Medina: The Place of Truth

[Mortimer 2]

My Neighborhood name is Dailyfield, like springfield on the simpson but for my version.

[Nepheris]

Im still thinking of a name, but I have it narrowed down to Pearl Island and Coral Bay. Any input?

I prefer Coral Bay :)

My latest BaC 'hood is called River's Bend. Previous hoods have been named Cedar Falls (mountain 'hood), Badger Bay, Springvale and Incendo Flats (desert 'hood)

[Selly_2009]

I recently began work on a new island neighborhood. Im still thinking of a name, but I have it narrowed down to Pearl Island and Coral Bay. Any input?
I'd be inclined to use Pearl Island as the name for the main 'hood, then add a shopping district/downtown called Coral Bay. :)

[FranH]

I recently remembered the name of a rather unique place: Destruction Bay-it's in the NW Territories of Canada.
From the Wiki:
Destruction Bay is a small community on the Alaska Highway (historical mile 1083) in Canada's Yukon on Kluane Lake. Population in 2001 according to the Census was 43. The Yukon Government's Bureau of Statistics estimated the population at 59 in June 2005. Populated mostly by non-aboriginal residents, community residents provide Yukon government services to residents in the area (school, highway maintenance), including nearby Burwash Landing and some tourism-related businesses along the Alaska Highway. The name is derived from the wind blowing down structures erected by the military during highway construction in 1942-43. The one-room school currently has 10 students in grades K to 8.
I've been through there, and so I renamed my oldest hood after it. Appropriate, too-everyone is on a destructive path! :rofl:

[Koda_lovemusic.]

Eight days later, bump :P

I have 3 custom neighborhoods, though I only play one consistently. One is called Manorvale and it's got a story going on that will probably last for a few generations. I play it in rotation all the time. Another is one called Sedona, just a test neighborhood where I plonk in my legacies (I'm on generation 1....yay! D: ). Third is called Pleasantf***ed... it's basically Pleasantview, but everyone is the opposite gender and has names like Donna Lothario, Dino and Niño Caliente and Caleb Langerak, that kinda stuff :B I hardly play Pleasantf'ed though, only when I'm uber-bored of Manorvale or Veronaville.

[DM was on fire!]

Riverblossom Hills 'cos that's what the terrain was named.
Townville, because it's really just easier than coming up with something.
My main is called Sexy Island. It's from a song by Morning Musume called "Iroppoi Jirettai." I recreated all my neighborhoods 'cos my game failwhaled on me, and I was like "...what do I name this place."
I had "Iroppoi Jirettai" in my head, so I was like ATSUI KODOU NI...SEXY ISLAND.
And that's how Sexy Island got it's name. XD

[candinfat]

Harlowborough. It's based on an inside joke with my friends.

- CandinFat(:

[Ailey]

Cleaned out Pleasantview and repurposed it as a 'hood for my legacy family; having replaced the Pleasantview neighborhood story and image with my own, I also renamed it Marantha Meadows.

[iamNOTHING]

Only playing one custom neighborhood and its name is Itacha Islands, made specially for my Build A City Challenge. The "Itacha" is random, ask Mr. Founder Abraham Lexicon and Islands because I made it on an islands layout.

[rome_raven]

Itacha? Sounds hilarious! Mine are so simple. Winchester Isle, the University is called Université de Gingé (I think I want the school mascot to be a Ginger), the soon to be added Business District is Denarii Reef (I actually went looking around to make that last one)

[simsamu]

My three custom hoods are
Bethany Bay it is my take on the build a city challenge.
Eutopian Vale just started this one so not much to report there
KittyKat Cove is a fairytale hood for my neice with fairies, witches, castles and a few seaside comunity lots for her sims to go to at the weekend. This was the most fun to build and gave me immense joy when I saw how excited my neice got when one of her sims was able to adopt a cat it was absolutely adorable. Of course she never plays unsupervised and when a "mummy and daddy want a baby they have to phone the doctor" (read adoption service.)

[iamNOTHING]

Itacha? Sounds hilarious! Mine are so simple. Winchester Isle, the University is called Université de Gingé (I think I want the school mascot to be a Ginger), the soon to be added Business District is Denarii Reef (I actually went looking around to make that last one)

Haha thanks :D
Nice names indeed :D
LOL at ginger school mascot =)) Gingerbread man? LOL how come =))

[rome_raven]

Haha thanks :D
Nice names indeed :D
LOL at ginger school mascot =)) Gingerbread man? LOL how come =))

I just thought that Gingé sounded nice and it's Ginger in french and after looking online for clipart pictures of a ginger that doesn't look like light colored poop, I think the mascot should perhaps change to that Gingerbread man. They'd come off really fierce. GoooooOOOO GINGY! :deal:

[cheshirekat]

I thought I was going to be stuck with the name of the terrain I used for my current custom hood because I forgot how to change the name of a subhood. It's too easy to forget how to do some stuff in the sims if you don't do it too often. Every time I want a new clean neighborhood, I have to read the instructions a few times before I start.

Anyhow, the name for my new neighborhood is now Ora di Sognare Island. I think it is better than using Crescent Island forever.

[redbramblexx]

The neighborhood name I use for my most commonly used neighborhood is called Orange Park. The other neighborhoods are just random spoof neighborhoods that should be deleted by now. :p

[Sims2Gaming]

Ummm:
Blue water
Alpinloch
Arbordale

[funcioná!!!]

I use animals names: Toucan Island, Okapi City, etc.

[Mosomashu]

I have two main hoods, Rainbow Village and SpeckledVille. I have no idea why I called them those names, I can be quite random.

[KMHirsch]

Yoh long time since last post time to break the silence.
I has 3 custom hoods:

Hunters Isle:Legacy hood

Stormhead Isle:Story hood

and Domus Obliti(Its latin it means Home of the forgotten ones)My post apocalyptic hood

[Lance]

And here I am going to win an award for the most creative name for a custom neighborhood.
It is called "The World".

[Peni Griffin]

Drama Acres.

But then I get all soft-hearted and try to avoid undue drama.

[PolterGeist44]

My custom neighborhood's name is New Edmont, I don't remember how I made up that name but it was a city in one of computer roleplaying games I made year ago.

[SommarBlomma]

I have a small city called Tornstad (city of towers, because many buildings there do have little towers , I like this detail of architecture), here I try to stick to realism (I have a vampyre and am going to make an evil warlock, though, so there will be a portion of dark mystery and magic here too)
I have also made a small island called Lilleholm, a place for all kinds of weird and supernatural sims, a bit like Strangetown, but I am not going to focus on aliens so much. There will be verevolves, vampyres, witches and warlocks, and maybe even plantsims (I do not like them but I don't mind having one in my game). I created this isle just because I was a bit bored of playing in a realistic way.

[lucasstuck]

I'm about to make my first custom neighbourhood and i'm calling it 'Viitor Stradă' which is Romanian for 'Future Street' :) {{Thank you Google Translate!}}

[simsamu]

My current custom hood is called Ha'penny Bridge. Mostly I use names with falls or gate in them I've had destiny falls, eden falls, heavens gate, Angels gate etc.

[Lavaster]

Driftwood.

[qpldmff]

I just thought that Gingé sounded nice and it's Ginger in french and after looking online for clipart pictures of a ginger that doesn't look like light colored poop, I think the mascot should perhaps change to that Gingerbread man. They'd come off really fierce. GoooooOOOO GINGY! :deal:

Erm, no. The French word for ginger is "gingembre," and the word "gingé" doesn't exist. You should make the mascot a ginger, as in a redhead, not the herb.

I don't really make worlds that often, mainly because I hate building things. I began making a desert world called La Canela, but I scrapped it. I named it after a the legendary city of spices that the Spanish conquistadores looked for along with El Dorado.

[amora_selvagen]

I like to use brasilian adjs most of the time:
Bonito(beautiful city)
Paraiso(paradise)
Ilha Bela(gorgeous island)
Other times I use names of places were I was or where I am :
Salvador(where I was born)....well I change a little and puted Sim Salvador
Dietikon what is the name of the town I live in switzerland! :heyhey:

I know...not to much imagination :llama: :| :|

[MasterJ16]

Does Anybody have any good neighborhood names that I could use for my sims games cause I've ran out of ideas

[hammerdonk]

There are some great neighborhood names.
I called mine Hobo Island :sheep: hehe. original? Methinks not! :faceslap:

[Peni Griffin]

Do it the way real life subdivision developers do it. Make two random charts. For the first, use positive adjectives some random nouns and verbs that sound all new and pretty; i.e. Beautiful, Tasty, Vibrant, Flower, Whisper, Dawn, Sibilant, Mountain, Vista, Rainbow, Ocean, Forest. For the second, use nouns evocative of places (preferably but not necessarily ones with solid ground underneath); i.e. Mountain, Valley, Acres, Heights, District,Ridge, Meadows, Hills. Roll once on each chart and take the result. So you might have Sibilant Valley, Ocean Acres, Rainbow Vista, etc.

If you're a stickler, you can limit your chart to terms appropriate to the terrain you've chosen, but a quick look at any map of an area undergoing urban sprawl will disabuse you of the notion that this is in any way necessary.

To truly capture the subdivision experience, you should build with no more than four different floor plans, tweaking only details, and have lots of cul-de-sacs with nearly identical names, the first one being the first half of your neighborhood name and the second half coming off a standard list of floral, faunal, and place nouns. So Ocean Acres (which has no beachfront lots) would have streets named Ocean Lane, Ocean Ridge, Ocean Rose, Ocean Fawn, etc. But that might be taking the theme a bit too far (and besides you have hardly any dinky confusing cul-de-sacs on your average sims neighborhood - an oversight, I'm sure).

[MasterJ16]

There are some great neighborhood names.
I called mine Hobo Island :sheep: hehe. original? Methinks not! :faceslap:
:rofl: where did u come up with that?

[maxon]

My main hood is called Little Carping. I chose the name after a discussion with an online friend about place names and absolutely loved the name of a village she had visited called Bicker. I thought that was perfect but didn't want to use her name so came up with one of my own. The name describes the tenor of the place. Nearby there is Carping Magna, a market town (shopping district) and Sirencester (downtown) which lures many of my young sims into dissolute lives (again, hence the name).

[edinfresno]

My custom neighborhood is Roxbury as it was when I was a kid. It's the area in Boston that I grew up in way back in the sixties. I've been working on it for months now and it's not even close to finished but it's getting there. I may post screen shots of it when it gets a little closer to being completed.

[frannetteski]

Does Anybody have any good neighborhood names that I could use for my sims games cause I've ran out of ideas

to come up with my neighbourhood names i actually went on wikipedia and found a list of british place names suffixes, e.g. 'minster', 'bridge', 'thwaite'... and just added on names that i liked :) it made my game a bit more realistic

[akksgurl]

My BACC town is called Serefina Valley with two subhoods - Brading Wood and Fort Truman (the army base, named after the founding family). My last attempt at a BACC had the base town called Hidden Valley (named after the salad dressing).

[TUL]

I'm not very original when it comes to naming neighborhoods. My main one is called Annapolis(after the valley in which I live), and December Valley(which was named after that stupid Taylor Swift song that was playing on the radio at the time -.-).

[HoodieDoodie]

My current custom hood is called Fawkes, with a uni, shopping district and a downtown :D

[vhanster]

I have one custom Neighborhood called Simphoria. Simple and sweet. ;)
Other than that, though, I just use the Terrain name because I'm too lazy to think up of one

[grammapat]

I downloaded the original people (in their houses) from all the hoods, and put them all in ONE hood. Named after Desiderata, Veronaville, Pleasantview, Strangetown, and Belladona Cove, I named it DisaVeraPleasantown Cove. And my take on Strangetown is named Sedona, and my western town Spit (yes, there really IS an old California town named that!).

[vllygrl]

My current 'hood is Simchester, a medieval kingdom incorporating the the castle environs and market town of Queenswhistle, the farms and villages of Whingemore (inspired by Maxon's "Little Carping", which had me laughing for two days!) and Broody Head, where the King's illegitimate son lives and plots to take over the kingdom. Mwwaahahaha!
Other great names for hoods that I've had: one of my favourites was Wit's End, (which is kind of along the lines of Little Carping and Whingemore!), Maplewood, Plumbridge (after the plumbob), Holly Hill, Beacon Cove, Pebble Beach, and Merridale are some names I have used and liked a lot! Love this thread!
Cheers, Vllygrl

[frankokomando]

The neighborhood I'm building right now is called Sobek. I got it from a book :P

[hammerdonk]

:rofl: where did u come up with that?
Well i had an idea that travellers,buskers (technically my poorer sims) would find their own little heaven in the world.I should of called it Hippies Paradise.

[Tga Kiwi]

Well i had an idea that travellers,buskers (technically my poorer sims) would find their own little heaven in the world.I should of called it Hippies Paradise.
Hippies Paradise....mmmm
I'm liking the ideas running through my mind. Living off the land with a only one store.
Thanks.You've given me a *lightbulb*

[emilyhwithlove]

My first was Crystal Springs... so tacky (;

Now I'm on Glenwood... I got the name from Google Maps hahaha.

[emilyhwithlove]

Named after Desiderata, Veronaville, Pleasantview, Strangetown, and Belladona Cove, I named it DisaVeraPleasantown Cove.

Definitely a mouthful! (:

[alicefishy]

My main 'hood is called Eliate Valley...have no idea what it means or where it even came from. Its placed in the middle of a desert so it's always summer. :)

As far as my sub 'hoods I have Hueneme Beach (my IRL residence) and Fleaton Springs (no idea where that came from either).

When I made a new 'hood or sub 'hood I usually close my eyes press a key on my keyboard and think of a name that starts with that letter. (i.e. y-Yillian Village, r-Rometon, e-Elliot Springs.) :D

[moonlight_frog]

Generally, I don't play Maxis Neighborhoods; as soon as I install an expansion, the pre-made neighborhoods get tossed out. I'm currently playing a challenge neighborhood called Mayship Harbor (sort of an island).

[Lavaster]

Grande Vista
Granite Hills
Eastlake (that's actually the name of the neighborhood I lived in a year or two back)

[Sudsy173]

The one I usually play is called Lanio Flats... I'm not entirely sure where it came from, I just typed random letters until I came up with something that sounded cool, lol.

[Frostwyrm]

The hood I started a few days ago (and that I hope to stick with for at least one year) is called Wyrmville.

Before, I had several hoods called Sim City (only to be populated with the Pleasantviewtownies), one named Elmbeck (a play on letters with the name of the village I am from) and many, many hoods wich names I cannot remember. Well, there once was a "Driftwood" ;)

[George16]

Sedona (funny name)

[Johnny_Bravo]

Had a hood called Paradisia and a desert hood called Desert Eagle, hehe

[Mootilda]

Chibougamau. It's a real town in Quebec, but I love the name because it makes you pucker, as if for a kiss.

[dieKristina]

My new hood is called Penecape. I just translated two words to latin, put them together and then changed some letters. I´m happy with that name actually.

[WooHoo31]

I usually get neighborhood name ideas from TV Shows/Movies.

For example, one of my favourite shows is Ghost Whisperer, and they live in the town of Grandview. I like the name Grandview for a neighborhood. :)

[Saturnfly]

My new medieval town is called Burwelle. Being the genius that I am, had to google medieval town names.

[Nimchan]

My current neighborhood is named "Candyland" :D

[FaithKuran]

Oh my god! The names of neighborhoods can be some of the hardest things for me. X_X (along with sim names, especially last) I do have 2 right now though and they are named Clearwater and Cresciuto

Clearwater is my legacy neighborhood but I am taking a break from my legacy ... for now. The only reason that I came up with such a decent name was because I was thinking about a school around my area named Clearspring and so Clearwater was born!

Cresciuto is Italian for Grown because this is for my story in progress that focuses on the way that sims grow up thus the name.

I love some of the names that people have posted on here. Much better than the ideas my brain can come up with.

[RedSneakers]

I'm very creative and have named my 'hood... 'By'... Which is the Danish word for town or city. I'm not very good at making names for 'hoods

[DasRabennest]

My current neighbourhood is called 'Port Hopes'...quite uncreative and pathetic. :D

My all time favourite 'hood was called 'Jaspis' with subhoods 'Onyx' and 'Jade' and inhabitants with the very creative names of the 'Embers' and 'Rubies'...but they were all great! ;)

DasRabennest

[TUL]

My current town is called Darkness Falls. xD It's a neighborhood filled with several supernatural "legacies"(I'm playing them a similar way to a legacy, but I'm not following the legacy challenge rule for rule) and a black widow, so I think the name suits.

[goderguy]

My one and only custom 'hood is currently called Brewsters Cove. I've recently imported a new terrain, roads, trees, etc. with a mod I found on here (name escapes me at the moment), so the Brewsters Cove name doesn't fit anymore. Is there any way to change the name? I renamed all my community and residential lots to include the name Lake St. Charles, since the new terrain has a beatiful lake in it. How can I change the name of the 'hood to Lake St. Charles without recreating a whole new 'hood?

[Metatwaddle]

I recently made a neighborhood for my apocalypse challenge. Since the challenge is supposed to take place in a nuclear fallout zone, and I recently read The Hunger Games, I called the neighborhood District 13.

My BACC takes place in a neighborhood called Syracuse. It's an ancient, respectable name for a city. Also, it was college basketball season when I created it, which is probably why the name "Syracuse" was on my mind. Every street in the main hood is named after a different Big East school.

[Muñeca Rota]

Names are my doom. I'm not abble to decide a name in ages!
Recently I've discovered I prefer names that sound cute, like "Blossom-Ctity" or "AppleMeadow", and later I regret my decisions when I want to play some drama.
"My mother died at Banana'Hills .. mmm....

[cheshirekat]

Well, you could simply change cute names to a different language, using an online translator. Even if the translation isn't perfect - I personally don't think it has to be perfect for a fictional place.

Apple Meadow (Italian) = Mela di Prato
Blossom City (Italian) = Citta Fiore/Fiore Citta

I guess if your native language is Italian, you would want to use something else. I am currently kind of addicted to using mostly Italian for place and sim names. But sometimes I mix in a bit of Russian or German. I prefer using names I can pronounce or words I can easily modify to make it pronounceable. Sometimes I even hack words and names so they are spelled out phonetically to come up with different/unique/offspring names. Especially if a different pronunciation or spelling seems to fit a sim, or fit with the family name better.

I agree that cute names will not make adding drama easy, but it is not impossible. Therefore a challenge. Think of some of the names of some popular shows like Desperate Housewives. It takes place in Wisteria Lane which doesn't sound gloomy or filled with appalling drama to me. But it is more about how you write in the drama and twist the labels and assumptions, than the name of where the drama takes place. That is conflict as much as Transylvania would not be the name one would think of when thinking about a comedy - although to do so would of course be an interesting hook. After all, a book can't be judged by the cover.

Also, if I hear or read words/names that I like, I jot them down to look over when I need them. The family I am currently playing just had a baby and knowing that the family will have several more brats because I am doing the (Good Genes Challenge IV (http://www.digitalperversion.net/gardenofshadows/index.php?topic=23185.0) at GoS), I already have a list of names to pick from, based solely on what the parents and first child looked like. Using adjectives is a favorite of mine because I don't have to think as much about which translations to use and I can also use a thesaurus. All the names are words that are translated into different languages or subject to phonetic manipulation. I mention sim names simply because the same methods can be applied to house names, street names, 'hood names, family names, first names, etc.

One of my 'hood names is Ora di Sognare. Know what it means?

[Muñeca Rota]

One of my 'hood names is Ora di Sognare. Know what it means?
Maybe "Time to dream"¨?
I'm spanish, so these words sound really close to my language (I would say it "hora de soñar").

I'll try what you say.

[HarVee]

Reefton, Coralworth, Troutsdale, Sharkson, Eelmouth, Portsville, Lighthouse Cliff.

These names fit perfectly with a 'hood which has quite a few beachlots, and a fisherman themed story.

[pinimon162]

Maybe "Time to dream"¨?
I'm spanish, so these words sound really close to my language (I would say it "hora de soñar").

I'll try what you say.

I think it's Dream time/time to dream in Italian? (but may be completely wrong!) :lol:

[Rinsk]

I delete all my hoods except for Pleasentview and then create my own beach hood called Reanimation County after my favourite albam from Linkin Park.

[WoohooAndTheCity]

I delete all my hoods except for Pleasentview and then create my own beach hood called Reanimation County after my favourite albam from Linkin Park.

Do you also have Hybrid Theory University and Meteora City? :)

[ai haibara]

i still have almost all the original neighborhoods except belladona cove:P

i have my own 2 neighborhoods called

Exoticville
and
Original Town

Exoticville has currently too many people...i dont know what will ever do with it:P

right now Original Town is my fav:D