Seriously, they're soooo small and boring. Can we please make our own neighborhoods, Maxis?

Hang in there. Expansion packs are coming. Eventually.

Yea. I'm replacing every lot one by one with my own builds and builds I download and making custom families for each house to at least fill up the boring neighborhood with stuff I want to see.

I'm certain that with the way the neighborhoods are set up in TS4, we won't be seeing many more customization features implemented. I do think we may eventually see more neighborhoods implemented, however.

If it just took you till yesterday to get bored with them, that's pretty good. I think I got bored with them after the first week or two.

And that's why I'm currently creating different lots for my worlds. They're so tiny with little to do and the same repetitive lots.

I'm not bored yet, but I am maybe not able to play as much as some. I don't usually manage more than a couple of a hours at one go.
Also I know that I am somewhat imaginative in terms of thinking up all sorts of scenerios and experiments. Maybe playing a slower game, and not doing everything all at once helps also...I still have a lot of in game stuff to try out!

When you have penfriends and ask for postcards, you get cards from different places, like Riverview and others.
Could it be those are the names of new neighbourhoods?

All of those are references to neighborhoods that appeared in previous games.

They are way too small. I'm really hoping they will give us a new neighborhood with the first expansion.

ONE neighborhood? Nu uh, not with the current size of the worlds. I'm gonna need at least 3, if they don't figure out how to either a. make neighborhoods with more than 5 lots, or b. make worlds with more than 5 neighborhoods. But until that happens, the bare minimum I'll take without a ruckus is three.

Edit: Two might be stretchable, but alas we must reflect on this thread: two is not enough.

I would only accept one new neighborhood if it met the following criteria:
A) Has more than 5 lots per subsection
B) Let's me choose the size/placement of the lots
C) Let's me edit, at a bare minimum, the active part of each subsection

I'm reaaaaalllllllyyyy (or is that reeeeaaaalllllyyyy?) hoping that there will be larger lots. Not fond of little lots where I can't put all sorts of outdoor spaces and toys. And, yeah - ok TMBrandon, we'll go with three neighborhoods. Melbrewer367, I agree that more lots per neighborhood would be helpful, but I'm thinking TMBrandon is onto something. I get tired of seeing the same neighborhoods all the time.

Let the community make hoods and that problem in solved. I would like to make something myself.

Thanks for telling me, I didn't know that.
Only played Sims 2 (and still do) and I only know the German names of neighbourhoods.

I like the ideas for the baby neighborhoods. Like, I like how they're like the subhoods from TS2 except they don't have to follow a particular theme (downtown, shopping, etc.). I also like the fakey backdrops that make the neighborhood look alive and larger than just the playable area. That's what kind of bugged me about TS2 hoods; even on max draw distance you could never see anything other than the nearest buildings and the otherwise infinite grass plain.
I don't like the size, however. And I would really like for EA to release a tool for us to develop our own neighborhoods sometime soon.

I'm hoping they'll expand them in the new expansion packs or at least add new ones :/

I'm already starting to run out of vacant lots. Pretty soon I'm gonna have to start killing off premades (the Goth's will be safe from my purge, of course) When they start introducing new neighborhoods, I really hope they're bigger than the two we have now. Five lots in each of the five districts is not cutting it. And I hope at least one is part of a free patch. You can charge me for all the rest. I just want ONE freebie.

You're just not cramming them in tight enough :D
Think European houses, with adult kids that never leave home!

I turned all those commercial lots right next to each other in Willow Creek into row houses and loaded them up with YAs. lol That's how you really pack them in.

My main save is basically just a bunch of free love poly types. Everyone is in some form of an open relationship. That way I can cram in more adults per lot. Each person can only have 1 kid for replacement population only.

I don't agree with this. I actually don't think it would be more difficult to make SIms 4 neighbourhoods than it would be to make Sims 3 neighbourhoods. Just create a playable area with lots and then surround that area with a space crammed full of the backdrop elements we see already in the game (houses, trees, mountains etc.)

(Got tired of having that limited supply of backdrop elements? Purchase our "European Townhouse Madness", "Que Sierra Sierra Dusty Mountain" and "Alien Jungle" DLC over Origin today. Only 12.99$ each!) <- I'm not looking forward to something like that and would not purchase it, but I'm very much expecting it.