I googled and found the Neoseeker topic, but I bet modthesims knows more.

*They say that I should select the house with the family and move or copy to the bin and then I can move the house and family from the bin to Belladonna Cove. But, isn't that bad? As in REALLY bad?
*On of the other posters said that when they did that in a new neighborhood, sims from Pleasantview started appearing.

What's the verdict on moving a family in a house to another neighborhood via bin?

Moving an occupied lot between towns is not advisable as it causes corruption; I forget the exact reason, but it has to do with misplaced memories of the now lost sims since they don't exist in that world anymore

Really really really bad. Don't do it, ever. It will corrupt both of the neighbourhoods. It is really bad. BAD! :-D

PS: Bad! Seriously though, don't try it. It won't end well....

Thanks guys! I'll just have to recreate the family. It sounds like a small thing but deciding the personalities, aspirations, likes and dislikes, and all clothing for the same 8 sims but in a new neighborhood is... kind of a big deal for me. But their is no way around it. Thanks again!

It is bad to do if both are main hoods, never, never, never-ever move lots to the bin with Sims in them for it will corrupt the hood as soon as you do it and it will corrupt the hood you place it in.

You can move Sims from a main hood to a sub-hood and you can get all the hoods remade as sub-hoods at: http://meetme2theriver.livejournal.com/63030.html and scroll down to where it says "Shopping Districts" and there you can get them.

But, even if you are moving your Sims to a sub-hood, DON'T do it by moving their occupied house to the lot bin! That will still corrupt your 'hood. Move them out of their house into the family bin, and then move them into a different house in the sub-hood.

Moving an occupied lot to the lot bin is an automatic no-no. No questions, just answers. And the answer is a corrupt neighborhood. If you move the lot into any other neighborhood, you'll spread the corruption to that hood. Deleting an occupied lot from the lot bin won't do any more damage than the neighborhoods you've moved the lot out of, and into.

Read the "Avoiding corruption" link in my signature - a lot of things you shouldn't do to preserve game health are listed.

Don't ever, ever move sims between hoods. Not in houses, not in anyway that the game makes possible. Don't even move houses with graves to other hoods, because those graves are sims. Doing any of those things will corrupt the hood you took them from and corrupt the hood you place them into. Move slowly away from that atomic bomb. Also never package houses with sims and upload them for others as it's the same deal, a fiery ball waiting to explode.

Also if you want to recreate your sims safely you will need to extract them with SimPE and then clone them in body shop. You delete the extracted sim and keep the clone. That bodyshop step is important if you want clean non corrupted sims.

When I restarted a brand new game, I moved the Brokes, house and all, from Pleasantview to Riverblossom Hills before even playing any Sims. Neither neighbourhood got corrupted. I'm guessing I was lucky.

They both got corrupted.

You did not, however, ever detect and recognize signs of that corruption while playing.

If this site could collect a dollar for every person who said "I did this no-fail corruption thing and my game is fine!" and then came back later and said: "Um, my neighborhood blew up," it wouldn't have to host ads.

A corrupted hood does not necessarily become unplayable at once. I've been playing a corrupted neighborhood for three years now, as it gradually shows more and more signs of corruption. There's a lot of randomness involved in the process; and the tolerance of individual players also varies.

^That^

When you moved the Brokes you shredded files, you don't see it but the game code does. It is then a matter of chance as to where that shredded data decides to attach itself. For some people the hood blows up only a couple of weeks after corrupting the data, but others seem to go on for quite some time, with glitches put down to 'just glitches'; but finally the glitches accumulate and their hood also blows up. It is corrupted and it will blow up; just when it blows up is a matter of chance.

I would recommend extracting and packaging the sims for your new neighborhood rather than moving them. Instructions are here: http://pixel-trade.livejournal.com/16091.html.

After moving the Brokes I replaced Pleasantview with a saved game (with Brokes in it). Would that make a difference?
If they both blow up, so be it. I've had years of playing them, and there is life beyond Sims.

If you deleted the Pleasantview that you took them from, and replaced it, then of course the new Pleasantview would not be corrupt only Riverblossom Hills that you placed them into would be. If you don't care that's fine, you can always take the chance, do as you want and play things for as long as they work. You can get lucky and play a corrupted hood for a year or more. We warn against it because not everyone is happy to do that, some people are devastated to find a hood they spent years developing is down the toilet. The last thing we want is for someone to read that it's an okay thing to do and go and do it thinking it doesn't hurt anything. We are all pretty big on preventing hood corruption around here.

How long you will stay lucky is another matter.

I've corrupted neighborhoods in all different ways. Not deliberately. Each time, I didn't know I was doing anything wrong. Sometimes, even some veterans here didn't know that what I did was a form of corruption. It seems to be a talent of mine.

My corrupted Pleasantview (v.1) was fine for a few years. But when corruption set in, it set in quickly, worsening with each day. (And that was no exaggeration.) My daughter corrupted her hood, and it lasted all of two weeks. I've heard of corruption taking place in an even shorter time frame than that.

By now, the two wikis have pretty much listed the most common types of corruption. I would consider the corruption chapters in both required reading for Sims 2. I wish this was around in the beginning, when I deleted families out of the family bin because .... all together now ... "Maxis lets us do it!" (Cringes.)

Yes, it can be instant but it does usually take some time.

I remember at least a whole year ago, I corrupted one of my hoods by moving sims between neighborhoods. Bad bad bad bad bad bad idea.

Corruption apparently hasn't set in too bad yet for me. Partially because I don't even remember which 'hood it was. I only ever play Belladonna Cove and my custom sub hoods that I've made for that base 'hood. So I guess I'm just playing it safe for now. Heck, I only even play with one family anymore.

It was exactly a year ago today that I corrupted Strangetown by deleting graves in Olive's lot
(Yes I still remember - 21 August 2013 - because something else unrelated to sims happened too)

DONT DELETE ANY GRAVESTONE OR URN! JUST DONT!
I had the Scary Squiggly Lines :o not nice

I have meetme2theriver's uberhood in my game and I'm trying to take good care of it because it took me heck of a time putting it in the right places!

I'm going to be honest; I've done a bunch of neighborhood-corrupting things before coming across this site and the avoid corruption articles, and I started playing Sims 2 in September 2012. Last night, my poor Pleasantview may have just bit the dust one month shy of two years later. (Update several days later: it isn't toast, but it isn't any better than it was.)

Moving families on lots from one neighborhood to another is exactly how the further corruption started (since it's worth mentioning that all the neighborhoods shipped with the game have some level of corruption associated with them), as well as being stupid with cheats. This is exactly why on another thread I wrote a funny post that had "avoid corruption" written as every other gameplay tip.

In fact, I now think of the different neighborhoods as being on different planets, with something like thousands of light-years between them and Sims on one planet having no knowledge of the other planets existing.

For those who fail to read the warnings, see the articles on avoiding corruption as "tl;dr", and insist on doing things 'the easy way' because 'it's built into the game' or 'a list of codes tells me I can do it', just know you're getting what you bargained for.