# Darn it, Maxis!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darn-it-maxis/272885>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 4, 2004, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darn-it-maxis/272885 "2004-11-04T01:22:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darn-it-maxis/272885/41 "2004-11-14T02:06:05Z")

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> [@Sublight](#):
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> Actually, I don’t think that’s entirely true. If you move the child out to his own place, then move both families to a new neighborhood, it will reset their relationships to zero (I wasn’t trying for inbreeding when I did this, Pleasantville was just getting crowded and I wanted to populate my new neighborhood). After getting son and mom back up as friends again, the mom suddenly got the aspiration “flirt with [son].” I don’t know how far it will lead, but it’s something I’ll try out today and see where it goes.

This is a stupid question I’m sure: how do you move a family to a new neighborhood? I tried what I thought would work – move the family out of a house, then go to the neighborhood and check the available sims bin – but they didn’t show up in the new neighborhood. Did you have to go out of the game?

And as for the same-sex marriage bit, a producer did tell me that this was a subject of a lot of arguments during the development of the game. Don’t know why they chose the way they did, though.

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**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\
**Post date:** [November 14, 2004, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darn-it-maxis/272885/42 "2004-11-14T02:41:22Z")

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> [@SolGrundy](#):
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> This is a stupid question I’m sure: how do you move a family to a new neighborhood? I tried what I thought would work – move the family out of a house, then go to the neighborhood and check the available sims bin – but they didn’t show up in the new neighborhood. Did you have to go out of the game?

Apparently the only in-game way to move families to a different neighbourhood is to move them into a lot, and then move the lot with the family to the lots bin. The lot (and the family) should then be available for placement in another neighbourhood from the lot bin.

They lose all their relationships doing this, though.

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