Names for neighborhoods!

[existerande]

My hoods are called Sjödalen (Seavalley) and Grönska (Greenery). I have a plan for another hood, but no name so far. I´m from Sweden, so swedish names is not really exotic for me :P

[perihelion]

I came up with:

Neighbourhoods:

Illusion Bay (multiplayer hood)
Tundra Valley (multiplayer hood)
Rosewood Park (MTS neighbourhood)
Rockport (Main hood)

Subhoods:

University of British Simlandia
Berlinghoff University
White Island (island vacation spot)

[SingleClawDesigns]

Getting tired of switching between maxis hoods/megahood and getting nowhere, so decided to try a custom hood for the first time.The first generation will probably be the students from the Universities and those in the sim bin. Bonus points to who can figure out where these came from

Main: Shamouti Island
Downtowns: Fire Island, Ice Island, Lightning Island (these will probably be the giveaway lol)
Shopping: Valenica Island, Navel Island, Sunburst Island
University: Trovita Island University
Vacation: Mandarin Island North, Madarin Island South

All except the vacation hoods are on Isle De Segundo(the island one, name doesn't sound right) template, the Vacation hoods are twikki island templates because i wanted them to be the beach lots of the north/south of the isand but Isla doesnt have beach lots.

[perihelion]

Are those Pokemon place names?

[SingleClawDesigns]

Yea they're some of the Orange Islands names. My megahood was always called Sunset Beach after the 90's soap opera also. Think next I want to do a custom one centered around really formal stuff. Think i'll call it either Dynasty or Dallas hehe. Though I could always just do 2 megahoods for that.

[Ynouva]

I'm very uncreative, so actually just name my custom 'hoods after their .sc4 templates... with a twist!
Here are some of my towns:

New Arbordale (from Arbordale.sc4)
Driftwood City (from Drfitwood.sc4)
Moon Island (from MoonIslands.sc4)
Sedona Beach (from Sedona.sc4)

[Nissun]

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.

I'm not gonna tell you why that names sounds hilariously wrong from my point of view :D

Also, I've noticed that many towns in the united states are called "Spring-something". Springvale, Springdale, Springfield... I think I'll give one of these names to my newest neighborhood. I've been playing it for weeks and it still has no name or neighborhood picture.

[iRinSekine]

My first neighborhood was Tokyo, hahaha. But I have made an original one and I called it River Wood Cove

[xCoCo]

my first own neighborhood was "New Jersey"
Just because i love american names.

Or names like:
- New York
- Connecticut
- Miami

[annoainthere]

I think out of all the neighbourhoods I have my favourites are Lush Valley and Viper Canon. Lush Valley is where I keep to the challenges Sims and Viper Canon is where all the Sim legacies are.

Although I do enjoy doing the tours around the original neighbourhoods (which I kept) and the other hoods - Black Lakes, Hue Mountains and RedZone City. Which mind you can be awesome, keeps the mind fresh and full of thoughts like WOAH When did I do that? :D lol

I enjoy giving my neighbourhoods weird names. In fact I'm about due for a new hood, still deciding on it's back story and what I want to do with it.

[LadyGreenEyes649]

I have all the main ones, and several custom. Paradise Island (with all custom additional destinations for downtown, shopping, and college, all on islands), Nostalgiaville, where many iterations of my family live (from me as a kid to present), in homes as close to the real ones as I can build. Funny thing, so many sims ladies there look alike....:D. One is named for one of the kids, for her to play in. Another is Boondocks USA, which was inspired by all of the rustic, country, western, etc. stuff that I have found online. Sims there range from the founder family in "town", to farmers, dirt poor farmers, wannabe rock stars, and even some "mountain" people, very poor, with no indoor plumbing. Oh, yeah, tons of fun!

[HoodieDoodie]

My current custom neighbourhood is called Halcyon, which means 'Calm'

[nuidyaforever]

I name all my hoods in Maltiazi, the Universal Sim Name Language I have created. Otherwise they would just sound stupid.

My current hood, which is a tribal mountaintop village surrounded by a wall, is called Kulo Seeri. Literally translated, it means "Stone Village Number 2". (see what I mean?!) It is named after the chief of the tribe, Sena Seerijata (Sena II, in other words) who prefers to go by Seeri. It has an island subhood called Kulo Kor - "Stone Village of the Dead" - which is the tribal burial ground. Nobody actually lives there.


My first ever custom hood, and I only remember this because it was the first, was Hexagonia. No idea where the name came from and I don't think I ever actually played it. :)

- VT

[Peni Griffin]

Hexagonia is a great name! It seems obvious to me what it's based on, or it would if you were mapping on hex paper. (It's way too hard to get hex paper these days, says the tabletop gamer...)

[nuidyaforever]

It was years ago... I was in my early teens, hadn't quite refined my general love of all things bizarre and random into what is now the VT Original Setting (VTOS) rule, never thought of actually planning things out, and it was before I'd heard of tabletop roleplaying...

It was an island. I had lots of random odd families in there, even without the help of CC. I think, but I'm not sure, that I might have decided it was in the middle of somewhere like the Bermuda Triangle, only I made it a SimCity Hexagon... or something... sometimes, my early ideas bamboozle even me.

And sorry, I have no idea where to find hex paper either.

- VT

[M.M.A.A.]

Townie Place, where all townies with the same last names are connected (through simblender and the summoner) into families. :D

[soccerstar]

Land of dreams- a placw where me and my crushes live.

[d_dgjdhh]

I have two main neighborhoods.

- Empty Homes Town
- Neighborhood Consolidation Inc. (a.k.a NCI)

Very original, lol. The first one you can guess why it's called that. I pretty much just build the homes there first, then if desired move them to the next neighborhood...NCI. There in NCI, the families reside all together.

[YukiShine]

My non-challenge neighborhood's name is Baskerville.

I run an NPC challenge in Wonderland (plus the subhoods Caterpillar Lane and The Abyss).
I didn't pay much mind to the name of the Test of Times challenge's neighborhood's name, so it's just called Bluewater after the template.

[xSarahsShadyx]

Love how creative everyone is! If I have to start over again it's always the word -Shady- that my hoods get in some form, lol.
I use Shady Valley as my Main hood
Ocean Grove as Shopping
Downtown is called Shady Cove.
Im was huge Eminem fan and Shady just sounds peacefull to me. Usually a weird mix of happy and horrid things happen in my neighborhoods. I love this game, so happy I got a new computer to play again, never could get into ts3.

[Rarr]

I just started a prosperity town and I called it Lilliana :) i dunno, it just sounded nice:)

[Peni Griffin]

So I was thinking earlier about my penchant for ugly and cartoony sims with exagerrated features, and I thought: "If I ever do a BACC, it'll be an island full of people striking out on their own when the Eugenicists start taking over their government and requiring them to have contraceptive implants if they vary too much from a standard; and I could put it on an island, and I could call it the Island of Misfit Sims! No, no, Island Refugia! That's much better."

My life consists of coming up with ideas I won't have time to carry out because I'm still working on the old ones.

[littleliar990]

I just use Maxis names like Crystal Springs and Sedona xD I'm really bad at making names... :help:

[akksgurl]

I'm terrible at naming neighborhoods and always ended up naming them after the food I happened to be eating or thinking of at the time - Hidden Valley (like the dressing), Orville (like the popcorn). But on a whim I googled "random town names" and found this site (http://k4-pacific.com/nametown.php). Now I never have to name towns after food again! :lol:

[Darby]

*bookmarks*

Very cool. Thank you, from a fellow name-challenged player. :lol:

[fruitsymphony]

Morbiton

Green Cream City

[Briana2425]

I made OceanView I have a story behind it.

[Jadilicious]

The only custom hood I have so far is Vader (I AM YOUR FATHER :heyhey: ) It's my BACC hood :Pint:

[andre8]

I don't remember what I named my neighborhoods, but I made a college sub-neighborhood, Allendale University.

[miss.pink]

I always use angelcity i dunno why but i love it

[themicrophonemolesta]

My names are totally lame... I'm Italian so my old neighbourhoods had Italian names like... Francavilla al Mare.
My current favourite neighbourhood now is named Clay View. It sucks I know, but I really can't think of anything else.

[.Wishes.Of.Silver.]

I have one which I play a lot, mainly with strange custom skinned and/or quirky Sims. After all, I've got the child of the Grim Reaper, many living dolls, a woman obsessed with fostering children and my selfsim. It's called Weirdville!

[frankokomando]

My neighborhood that I use for Asylum challenges is called Raven Gate.

[omashu9]

I mostly use the original names, very creative I know :P. I do have a neighbourhood named "New York (F.r.i.e.n.d.s)" where I have made the replicas of the apartments in that show and where I intend to move in the Friends characters as sims.

[Kierne]

Meadowbrook, currently.
Landsdowne
Riverview Heights
Cherry Hill Heights
Brattendon
Colleyville
Shannondoah Township (Made up on spur of moment, feel free to use.)
Harinsville (ditto)
Dollers Town (ditto)
Paragould (Real place name, it's in NE Arkansas.)

[Liv]

5 years ago it was something like Olivland (taken after my name obviously :P ) and Trilania.
Since February '09 I've been playing in my custom 'hood named Nieznanowo (in English it might be translated as "Unknowntown") - I had no idea how to name my new 'hood and I thought I'd change it later. "Later" never happened :P
Nienanowo has it's own vacation subhood - it's called Wyspa królowej Melanii (Queen Melanie's Island). I was also going to "furnish" my own uni subhood, but I didn't manage to finish and now I have to delete it. It's name is Mądralkowo (sopmething like "Wittyland" :D )

[moonlight_frog]

I name my neighborhoods based on their gaming purposes.

For example, I used to have a neighborhood specifically for a mafia challenge, so I named it New York. I know, very original, right? XD

For the TOT challenge, I currently have an island neighborhood called the Isle of Tartar. Right now, all of my sims are in the Neanderthal period.

[fruitsymphony]

Morbiton Valley, in the desert north of Strangetown, and the downtown area is called Greeb City.

[itsemurha]

My neighborhood is called "Kvarteret Kattrumpan". It's swedish for "The Neighborhood Kittybottom". There actually is a neighborhood near downtown Stockholm called Kattrumpan, though nobody says that. xD I thought it was funny, so I called my new neighborhood that. Almost all communitylots are called something that puns on cats or buttoms. :D

[MovesLikeSummer]

Mine is named Bluewater Cove and Crystal Springs.

[NatteryakToad]

My current custom hood is called Patience Island, I'm not sure where that came from and it's not really an island, but oh well. The one before that was called Mein Ville (My Town) in German, to distinguish it from all the endless hoods my brothers kept making and deleting, because they can never stick at one for more than a few weeks. I like the name of their current hood though: Kinivah Bay, which is an combination of two of my nicknames for them (Oliver --> Ollie --> Ollie Kins --> Kins --> Kinny --> Kinivah and Jacob --> Jake --> Jay --> Jay Bay --> Bay, in case you wanted to know).

[CissyFlower]

I have this town I made and it comes with Pleasantview.
It is called Abordale and is a green silent neibourhood. I called it abordale, because it just was the first thing that popped into my head!

[Fivey]

I usually play the neighborhood of Middleground, home of the Fleurada legacy.

I also have The Hood I Test Stuff In. Which is the hood I test stuff in.

[Peni Griffin]

I made a test neighborhood. It's called Beta Beach.

[StrangeTownChick]

My empire city, for the longest time, was No-Name, as I wanted the name to come about naturally. Later while decorating I jammed a giant stone bridge into the hillside for no reason, and it was christened Stonebridge.

[simkat]

I have 2 hoods going one for Legacy and the other is just a random town.
Legacy Hood is named: Oakgrove
Random Hood is named: Pinewood Acres
Oakgrove is a very laid back country town while Pinewood Acres is a bit more modern in feel.

[JDacapo]

I have one custom hood named 'Calopsita' because I love cockatiels, and 'calopsita' is Portuguese for 'cockatiel'. It has a subhood named 'Goffin' which is a species of cockatoo. Also, I have a custom hood I'm working on, sort of building from the ground up, named 'Heresville' after the default city name from Sim City Classic. It doesn't have a Downtown yet, though I will be making a connection to the default Downtown so I can have the House of the Fallen Trees and get the Tricou bastards to resurrect their dead daddy. I will add it pretty soon, once there are enough businesses that would warrant that kind of connection. Also, once I have that many businesses, I will add the default vacation spots, since in the game, commerce does require an airport. Of course, it will function a little differently from the original Sim City type cities because it doesn't really have any 'industrial zone' function, and the business lots are sort of industry/commerce hybrids. I might plunk down a few industry-type decorations though, and of course some power plants if I can find them. Might also move out one of the servos and have her adopt some of the townie kids, just so they can grow up properly and get their aspirations rolled. I might even have them use the Sensorb once they get into the green and give them a chance to reroll their aspirations or get grilled, because I want some Grilled Cheese teens, dangit!

[Orianeeuh]

I called my hood "Eden Road".

[julmoo]

I always name my hoods after the SC4 Templates I use for their landscaping.

If I download a hood I keep its original name.
I'm so creative, I know xD

[daniandan]

I made one custom neighbourhood on my old laptop, before it decided to stuff up. I think it was called Hawkesbury or something like that

[SilverFox30]

This may not be the place for this but how can you change the name of the Shopping District. I know you can do it when you first use it but I didn't and now I have at least 6 Bluewater Villages and would like to give them different names. Have about 15 hoods but they are all the original name used when I downloaded them.

[Mootilda]

Same as changing primary neighborhoods. Just go to the subhood selection screen and type in the new name.

[MattShizzle]

Same as changing primary neighborhoods. Just go to the subhood selection screen and type in the new name.

Just tested this - it doesn't work from the main (startup) screen for subhoods, but does from the neighborhood view (where subhoods are in the upper-left.) You can change the name of the main neighborhood from the main screen though.

[mozgun]

I made a tropical island neighborhood that was originally named Simaica (Sim + Jamaica, in case you didn't immediately see that). I changed it to Simaicos soon after.

[SilverFox30]

Same as changing primary neighborhoods. Just go to the subhood selection screen and type in the new name.

I can go to the hood selection screen and change the primary name but if I click on Shopping District I cannot change the name, not selectable.

[SilverFox30]

Just tested this - it doesn't work from the main (startup) screen for subhoods, but does from the neighborhood view (where subhoods are in the upper-left.) You can change the name of the main neighborhood from the main screen though.

Thanks Matt, I'll try it this evening.

[SilverFox30]

Matt, I went to the sub hood as you mentioned and could change the name. However, next time I played it the name had reverted back to the original name. Have tried several times and name won't stay changed.

[Mootilda]

If you really can't get this to work in-game, then try opening the subhood in SimPE and change the "Catalog Description".

[BeckyBoo8]

For naming my hoods, I think of the ending name:
-City
-Station
-Hills
-Island
-Mountain
-etc.
And then I think of a beginning name, which can be anything.
-Lakeview
-Burberry
-Purewater
-Cherryblossom
-Evergreen
-etc.

My current custom hood which I just started uses my favorite neighborhood template, Belladonna Cove. And it is named Springwater Station.

[Neucleus]

I've only been able to commit to keeping one of my custom neighborhoods around (the rest have just been experimental) - North Simsylvania University, connected to Pleasentview, which I'm playing as an all-neighborhood legacy.

[MattShizzle]

I have one coming up called "Asiana" where nearly all the Sims are East Asian, Indian, Mideastern, etc. The college subhood is called "Fusang University." If you Google "Fusang" you'll find there was a Chinese writing in 499 CE of a travel East that sounds an awful lot like they reached the West coast of N America.

[saskganesh]

Nova Fields.

I started a new hood a few months ago, called it Nova, and placed six single person households based on the man character archetypes. After a few rotations decided that Fields was an appropriate nickname given all the wide open space. After a game-year I added the Nova family, who I imagined as poor farmers forced or enticed to sell their fertile homestead to developers in order to create this sub division. They were old and childless so they adopted a Objiway boy.

4-5 game years in, now 15 households, 55 sims. I've added some trees to improve the view, some windmills, a general store for necessities (food and smokes) and a nature sanctuary (which also contains the fishing hole, graveyard and hockey rink). Everything else is downtown.

[Nytician]

My custom neighbourhood is called 'Serenity Hills'.

[royalinedebi]

I tend to steal neighbourhood names from songs.
My current custom hood is the Beatles-themed 'Strawberry Fields' complete with streets such as Abbey Road, Penny Lane, Blue Jay Way etc. There's Rigby cemetery and Mean Mr Mustard's grocery store plus the Beatles themselves wandering around. I've actually had to move the fab four Downtown because Beatlemania in SF was becoming unbearable (constant stalkers outside their homes after midnight etc.)

[grammapat]

My favorites are: Tombstone - a desert western town, lots of farms and ranches (inspired by western and animal CC). Area51 - the only place I use all my alien skins and try to kill off all the "humans". Paradise - where a special template allowed lots of beach front lots, everyone fishes (lots of fish and flower businesses), and I allow my mods that create random coupling, babies, and no jealousy. I've tried for period hoods (Victorian, 1950's), but can never stick to it.

[Keikari86]

A name I've always liked to give for one of neighborhoods is Deaton. It's pretty simplistic, but I find it to be a nice little name.

[AM_Ilmeinen]

In my modern USA-themed hood I have:

Alabammy (main)
New York, New York (downtown)
California (shopping)
Arid Zone (shopping)

- each with some local flavors.

[Faerieimp]

In Strangetown I have a downtown called Telescope Ridge. My main custom hood is called Simpleton. I think my sister chose that name. Morlia (named for their lack of moral values . . . lots of Alien babies and experiments with townie genetics here. I have a Stoneybrook hood for a Baby Sitters Club challenge.

There's no real pattern to my names other than that they sound good to me.

[Port_A_Build]

I go to a random City name generator and take the first thing I like. Then I add a suffix.