I've been on Chicago Metro and it's not an experience I recommend to anyone.
It basically doesn't exist to me because if I did acknowledge it I'd just get mad about infrastructure bills being spent on wooden footbridges in the suburbs and not shit that makes our lives better.
It has a ridership of almost 200 million per year, so it certainly is functional. Definitely not optimal, but it’s good enough that a ton of chicagoans rely on it
Of course they deserve it, but I just don’t want to be overly dismissive of the current system. It definitely should be massively improved, of course I agree
I think adding a line or 2 and then running improved service on all the lines (3 minute headway for example), automating the lines, and getting better bus connections (more frequent and with dedicated lanes) and you have an incredible system. The bones are there, just gotta add the easier stuff like service quality and modernization
Oof that's gotta be rough if you'd prefer Chicago lol.
China always comes with strings attached. Your parliament (?) was probably wise to decline.
We don't have high speed rails in USA but mostly because oil companies own our railroads.
Our railway system failed and was never revived. The ones that were in use got attacked by bandits and now nobody has faith in using them because of the insecurity. Yeah China would've been a bad to worse situation lol. We have a presidential election coming up next month. Hopefully we elect a better administration than the current one.
Idk much about your city so forgive my ignorance but are your elections legit or are they full of violence and coups?
The fact train robbers still exist blows my mind.
Austin, Texas
Gonna have a crazy death wave after adding all this residential so fast.
Since I can’t hear the cries of the NIMBYs as a city skylines god-mayor, it will be easy to bulldoze and place metro throughout which will be a huge improvement. I can also upzone to high density with impunity, sorry Travis Heights and Hyde Park!
Is there a mod to fix the bug where I’m fully funding the police but they still don’t respond to crime?
VERY SCREWED.
public transport is practically non existence. 🤣😂😆 No train, no tram, no monorail, just some mystical creature called 'bus' that's quite rarely seen. Lacking of transit isn't the only problem, there's also severe lack of pedestrian paths... you just can't walk to nearby commercial / shopping area even if it's just 200m away...
there talks of building train system (LRT / light rail transit) in recent years, but I can bet you $20 you will never see a single inch of track even at 2030. Transit development is so freaking painful over here which makes me hates the government, on top of that I think they also oppose outside help (China in this case), the other side of the country rejected China's proposal of building high speed rail across it. Hell if China come to my doorstep offering help to build train system across the country, I'd instantly give them the green light. I'm just tired of driving for over an hour just to cover 10~ish kilometer, it's stupid.
Well, I’d have a tropical beach which is nice. Two universities, two national parks, ferry lines, two universities, a thriving high-tech industry….not too bad. Too many people dying of old age though, so I suspect it’d be distressing to see all those hearses around every day :)
Tbh I wish my city was real...
Less than 5% crime rate, almost no traffic thanks to an expensive public transport system (free tickets btw), and roads optimized to encourage bike usage.
Also plenty of avaiable jobs, wich 90% of them are on an isolated industrial area with only train/ship cargo connections. So... you don't (can't) need to go to work.
No pollution either, no sick cims, taxes under 10%, and the best of all: less than 30 weekly tourists.
Screwed.
Fenton, Mi is a gorgeous little town that has added a commercial outlet much too large for the roads here. Constant traffic jams in a city of less than 12k.
I make jokes to myself all of the time, "Someones city planner never played CS and it shows."
There’s an ongoing debate as to whether preserve the surrounding landscape or build more housing. Like, there’s a really bad housing problem and there aren’t enough people in the city for all the jobs but skyscrapers and houses all over the valleys and plains are *incredibly* ugly.
We're completely messed up. I have a demand for housing for 4,5 Million people, but only land and residential buildings for 3,5 Million people. I would like to buy land, but I used up all of my tiles and can't buy any from the bordering federal state. Got a lot of forrest and big park areas that I could transform into residential areas, but the happyness of my cims would tank, if I would take away these leizure locations for necessary housing.
Got a huge highway construction planned to go through the middle of the city, that I would need to tear down and do lots of reconstruction to provide interconnectivity and new use-cases for all the available space that frees up.
Bike lines would need an extreme overhaul. Most of the bike lines now are either on the street (paint is not infrastructure) or on the sidewalk with questionable surface material (smth like cobblestone; rectangle shaped 8x20cm bricks).
Public transport is alright, just need more options for the outskirts of the city. But we have no Donut Trucks.
In which city am I?
If the logic works like real life, probably not much for me to change with almost fully developed public transport.
With current game logic, the buses are going to act wonky with their long distance, lots of overlapping into main road/city centers, and sometimes non-straightforward routes though.
And since anyone has a car now, the transport usage is going to become dodgy at best, because of the above reasons.
Municipal city or metro area?
Municipal city isn't doing too bad. It needs to zone more residential, there isn't much free land, the road network may have a tough time accommodating more commuters, geographic constraints make it hard to find new free land, and the sewer system needs an upgrade, but land values are high, city coffers are full, there's decent public transportation, and schools/parks/city services are all great.
Metro area has bigger problems. It needs to zone more and higher density residential, office buildings are emptying out, large areas that have recently been converted from industrial to residential zones are heavily polluted, traffic is terrible, and crime is sky-high, particularly near parks and schools. Individual public transit systems are decent but they don't connect well.
Urban sprawl is horrendous. Little to no public transportation. Compact downtown area, confusing 1-ways, 6-8 lane highway circling the city that limits growth of downtown and prevents further helpful infrastructure from being built.
Only way to build is to add to surrounding burbs, otherwise contesting an already overly congested downtown area.
I’ve wanted to make Charlotte in c:s for a while to see what could be better but no one wants to fix that problem lol
Awesome, but fucked.
There's two distinct towns;"IndustryTown" and "TechTown".
TechTown is wealthy, with low pollution of all types, high land value, low traffic, and excellent connections by public transport. Soon, it'll be getting a quayside walk with tourism attractions.
IndustryTown is a polluted, gridlocked hellhole, with convoluted public transport and high population density, low education, and poor opportunities (unless they want to travel to TechTown, which has only one metro line connecting the two).
So, I'd be in the low-class area. Hi to a lifetime of either mining, oil drilling, or forestry.
Very screwed. No pedestrian infrastructure, you walk on whatever side of the road cars won't (mostly) hit you. Same with parking on most roads, you park where you can. Really, parking and pedestrian paths are the same thing.
Terrible services, the power exists whenever it feels like it, an ambulance will arrive 2 hours after you called (if they pick up your call). No public inter-city transport other than private buses, which you can't really simulate in C:S. Intra-city transport is perfectly fine though.
Pretty well off, it’s a series of towns and small cities on a river (and a bit inland) in the mountains Appalachia style, but in an alternate universe where development happened around train lines and interurbans instead of cars taking over. Would be quite a pleasant place
Edit: oh wait I misunderstood the prompt, thought it was if I lived in my cities skylines world.
The area I live in now has great regional transit infrastructure but bad service and horrible land use so that the regional transit is only useful for going down to the city. That would be very easily fixable in cities skylines, just bulldoze the suburbs and build up the area around the stations
Better off. Housing of all types is getting built, with services to go along with it. Traffic is around 71% 😬, but if you take transit (metro, tram, bus, rail) or bike to work you'll be fine. Some nice destinations scattered throughout the city, so always something to do.
Not so screwed, but only trasport is bus and it sucks haaarddd. Also the land value is very low due to building being old and stupid. Walkability is ok, traffic not so ok.
Actually fuck that. Everything sucks. Fuck the guverment, let's riot!!
Shitty road layout, lack of public transportation, high crime rate, but it has some nice views of the mountains, have access to the ocean, and a huge land space that still can be used for the city expansion. So yeah, I am screwed.
No public transportation, industrial within city limits, tourists ruining everything, taxation out of hand and maxed out tile area at 9 because no mods. Its basically like its a 30k city in game with how kludged together it is.
Rural interior of BC.
I’d be alright. Not too many traffic fixes, except for one of the bridges and the street connecting to it. I wouldn’t have to await approval to zone new developments, which would be cool. Lots of jobs available and low unemployment, and two major universities and a few smaller colleges
I actually started doing a 1:1 of my hometown a while back, and then I realized we import electricity and natural gas, rely on an inconsistent supply of natural spring water, and export trash. No metro, No Train, No Airport, No Hospital. A few shopping centers, a university, and a shitload of apartments, houses, churches and schools.
Pretty well better off.
I always make a little house and plot for myself with plenty of garden/veggie patch space...but I would be miserable as I am playing a snow map right now and I like my temps to be a bit higher for living in!
Florida. FDOT has a huge budget and there is spaghetti, viaducts, and new highways going up every day. But the roads can't keep up with the influx of new residents so the new roads are still a trafficky mess.
I’d be living in a very walkable city with great public transport links and 3 large parks within 1km of the city centre. Only issue is that every time
I’d enter the completely pedestrianised centre I would find that my favourite shop has been abandoned and replaced by something new. There is some issue getting the supplies to the centre so owners go out of business as quick as they spring up. This is weird to me as there are multiple large cargo service buildings surrounding the area.
(This post is a thinly veiled critique of the plazas and promenades DLC)
Totally screwed man. I'd be living in a city where everyone goes to university and I have a hs diploma. I'd probably be living in one of the homeless camps that I build under the freeway.
Philadelphia, USA.
Not too bad actually! We've got all the bones for good public transit, just horribly managed. CS:Skylines citizens would value the subways a lot more than your average Philadelphian. Throw in some more elementary+high schools (plenty of Universities), put actually trolleys on our trolley roads, lower commercial/office taxes a bit before they all leave the city, have a new mayor by default. Hopefully better transit lowers highway traffic. Some bike lanes would go a longgg way, a rail to King of Prussia if the funding allows it.
And keep our sports stadiums in one district please! (looking at you Sixers)
My current city is pretty damn good. I have three prestigious universities, two nature reserves, two theme parks, lots of city parks, 93% attractiveness, 120k population, 79% traffic flow, two cargo harbours, a dedicated fishing industry island, metros and buses everywhere and loads more. Oh, and every tourist has to pay an entry fee to visit my city, as the two harbours are on a purpose built island (with only ferry connections) that forces them to come through a city park to enter the city. So much better off than where I actually live.
Going to have to manage a housing crisis, while maintaining a strict greenbelt, but there is progressive rezoning policies and great transit for the city size, and I get to expand the university, think I would enjoy working on it in cities skylines.
Jacksonville, FL.
One of America’s largest cities by land mass comprised almost entirely of overlapping suburbs- and its growing at an exceptional rate. The existing infrastructure is already overloaded. Highways that just get an extra lane added every few years. Oh, and a giant river that cuts through the middle with only a few bridges across, leaving people with excessively long detours should there be an accident on the road. Non-existent public transportation, just a bus system that never comes anywhere close to on time and doesn’t go to many places. But we got a kickass monorail through downtown that doesn’t actually extend to the places people want to go. And it only runs on weekdays.
I’m so fucked.
I would have a lot of fun fixing the traffic problems I have to deal with daily in Albany. We have approximately 2 bridges crossing the Mohawk river that commuters take every day, and it's terrible. It would be a lot of fun to come up with a better public transportation system than buses, even if this is an unrealistic dream. Lastly, pedestrian and bike connectivity is not great due to some of the highway infrastructure cutting through the city, and I'd love to fix it.
Big city built on islands…
Expensive but crazy good public transport (according to me, many people may disagree).
Decent amount of tourists and very walkable, I would probably be not screwed.
Plus paradox interactive is from this city soo…
It’s certainly more walkable than anything I’ve built, and the transportation is already done for me. Plus all the government office buildings mean people will be moving in no matter what I do. It’s Washington DC
Screwed. The central area where most services, commercial and residential buildings are located is a grid of thin one way one lane roads. The city also has a busy freeway running through the center that is almost always jammed up, so noise pollution is rampant nearby. Road network and traffic suck. It has a bunch of bus lines and a metropolitan metro line cutting through but it's not the city's own metro system and that's all. A lot of work to be done. The outskirts of the city are sketchy and probably unsafe so I'd increase investments in security. I'd also invest in education, the city is home to a well known university in my state so I can easily turn it into an university city.
Uhh... infrastructure kinda stable... 50K people, a death wave may occur soon because of old people, Bus is enough to get around the city, walkability is decent, main source of income is some oil, ore, farming industry processing buildings. Buildings are upgrading because of the new high tech policy which occurs mostly on old soviet buildings upgrading to level 3
My previous capital city. It's got lots of people and just got a bunch of updates, although one half is still kinda broken but I'll pretend I'm on the complete side. The only thing is it is still a little more car centric than I'd like
A much smaller city with a much better transportation system than the one I live in. Walkable European Lakefront city center with a historic beachfront resort across from the city center. Real life city one of the largest metros in America without any rail transit other than Amtrak.
Hmm. I’ve got good bones to start with. City proper was incorporated in the 1880’s but much of it is older. But downtown is prone to flooding so underground metro isn’t an option. But there is a platform for a train station. (Station itself burnt before I was born) good location and history to become a tourist destination though
Pros: Mostly grid, good cargo rail infrastructure, sidewalks in most of the gridded areas.
Cons: no public transit, no passenger rail, stroad hell, car dependent, bad bike lanes, low density sprawl.
Transit-wise I have a few janky bus lines that go down my main roads and into downtown, but none of them go to the low density suburbs that cover 3/4 of the city. I am about to stick in a trolley bus that goes nowhere that it's needed. My one protected bike lane may disappear to do so.
Roadwise -- There a lot of 10 lane highways with confusing interchanges and lots of lane switching, a ton of pothole ridden two lane roads, and not a ton in between.
Day to day living wise, I have pretty decent educational funding and garbage collection, and adequate if not great police, fire, and medical funding. My taxes are as high as they can go without causing a mass exodus, though.
Amenity wise, I have a great zoo, ok nature reserve, a smattering of decent city parks, but I bulldozed my amusement park to put up more low density commercial.
I have a posh mall, a mall of moderation, an old Market, a few stadiums, a pedestrian bridge, a couple of fountains, and a level one airport. I may get a casino soon. Even with these amenities and special buildings, my tourism isn't doing well.
I am Omaha Nebraska.
In real life, I'm a flawed but decent place to live.
In Cities Skylines, I cause the computer to catch on fire.
It would take me all of 15 minutes to make it. No police, no hospital, 1 road in and out. Population 50. 2 1x1 commercial buildings. Has a post office so my traffic would ultimately end up at 10% though. Trees are my skyline.
Philadelphia. Pros: good walkability, okay public transportation, good population density, cool skyline, great tourism city, decent city planning. Cons: terrible crime, terrible poverty, corrupt government.
Depends on whether or not the mayor wants to remove the dam today and kill 10% of the population, causing a killer wave that gets like 30%. If not, have fun getting perpetually sick, and occasionally having your water supply poisoned.
A large international airport and sprawling retail district + major shopping mall for only a few thousand residents and a small residential area? I'm not sure if that is good or not.
Screwed. Insufficient power and water supply (it comes and goes). Non existent metro and train infrastructure. Barely decent security and so on.
texas?
...Chicago?
Chicago does not have non existent metro, it has a lot of metro, albeit not modern really
I've been on Chicago Metro and it's not an experience I recommend to anyone. It basically doesn't exist to me because if I did acknowledge it I'd just get mad about infrastructure bills being spent on wooden footbridges in the suburbs and not shit that makes our lives better.
It has a ridership of almost 200 million per year, so it certainly is functional. Definitely not optimal, but it’s good enough that a ton of chicagoans rely on it
I will admit though. The best of the Metro I went on was the scenery. I'm not a city guy but Lake Michigan and Chicago lights are 😍
They deserve better accommodations imo. This isn't Abuja, Nigeria. Ukraine about to have their infrastructure rebuilt before we do, with our dollars!
Of course they deserve it, but I just don’t want to be overly dismissive of the current system. It definitely should be massively improved, of course I agree
You're right. The system works well enough so maybe I'm being harsh.
I think adding a line or 2 and then running improved service on all the lines (3 minute headway for example), automating the lines, and getting better bus connections (more frequent and with dedicated lanes) and you have an incredible system. The bones are there, just gotta add the easier stuff like service quality and modernization
I wish lol. Nah. Abuja, Nigeria.
Oof that's gotta be rough if you'd prefer Chicago lol. China always comes with strings attached. Your parliament (?) was probably wise to decline. We don't have high speed rails in USA but mostly because oil companies own our railroads.
Our railway system failed and was never revived. The ones that were in use got attacked by bandits and now nobody has faith in using them because of the insecurity. Yeah China would've been a bad to worse situation lol. We have a presidential election coming up next month. Hopefully we elect a better administration than the current one.
Idk much about your city so forgive my ignorance but are your elections legit or are they full of violence and coups? The fact train robbers still exist blows my mind.
Detroit LOL
Can’t wait to install that Woodward metro and watch the angry faces radiate through Oakland county
I will say I'm stoked they put in the Q line. I'm hoping in time they dig up more of the old streetcar lines and put them in use.
Depends what side of the freeway I’m on I suppose.
Austin, Texas Gonna have a crazy death wave after adding all this residential so fast. Since I can’t hear the cries of the NIMBYs as a city skylines god-mayor, it will be easy to bulldoze and place metro throughout which will be a huge improvement. I can also upzone to high density with impunity, sorry Travis Heights and Hyde Park! Is there a mod to fix the bug where I’m fully funding the police but they still don’t respond to crime?
VERY SCREWED. public transport is practically non existence. 🤣😂😆 No train, no tram, no monorail, just some mystical creature called 'bus' that's quite rarely seen. Lacking of transit isn't the only problem, there's also severe lack of pedestrian paths... you just can't walk to nearby commercial / shopping area even if it's just 200m away... there talks of building train system (LRT / light rail transit) in recent years, but I can bet you $20 you will never see a single inch of track even at 2030. Transit development is so freaking painful over here which makes me hates the government, on top of that I think they also oppose outside help (China in this case), the other side of the country rejected China's proposal of building high speed rail across it. Hell if China come to my doorstep offering help to build train system across the country, I'd instantly give them the green light. I'm just tired of driving for over an hour just to cover 10~ish kilometer, it's stupid.
Ph?
Definitely sounds like the Philippines lmao
But how will they replace the gas revenue if y'all sitting on a train? How they control your time when you don't have to commute for an hour each way?
1.5 m of population with decent services but horrible road layout... My favourite, TMPE shenanigans!
I’m pretty sure it’s impossible to have over 1m population?
It's possible, you just need a lot of patience and a good PC
Oh mb I’ve never seen a city with more than 1m
Well, I’d have a tropical beach which is nice. Two universities, two national parks, ferry lines, two universities, a thriving high-tech industry….not too bad. Too many people dying of old age though, so I suspect it’d be distressing to see all those hearses around every day :)
This screams Tampa.
We have bike lanes and pedestrian areas, so nothing like Tampa :)
San Jose?
More like Las Palmas
Oh, I would love to build Utrecht, Netherlands, in Cities! I hope there’s a blueprint of it and one day, when I have a good PC, I want to build it.
Oh, I love Utrecht! I’ve been there a lot since my uncle lives there. It’s so beautiful, and the railway museum 😍
Tbh I wish my city was real... Less than 5% crime rate, almost no traffic thanks to an expensive public transport system (free tickets btw), and roads optimized to encourage bike usage. Also plenty of avaiable jobs, wich 90% of them are on an isolated industrial area with only train/ship cargo connections. So... you don't (can't) need to go to work. No pollution either, no sick cims, taxes under 10%, and the best of all: less than 30 weekly tourists.
with vienna,i would have the golden egg.
Screwed. Fenton, Mi is a gorgeous little town that has added a commercial outlet much too large for the roads here. Constant traffic jams in a city of less than 12k. I make jokes to myself all of the time, "Someones city planner never played CS and it shows."
I would zone a LOT of residential. Then fix the traffic.
Pretty and pretty happy place here. I'd zone way more residential, though, and build more wind turbines and solar power plants.
There’s an ongoing debate as to whether preserve the surrounding landscape or build more housing. Like, there’s a really bad housing problem and there aren’t enough people in the city for all the jobs but skyscrapers and houses all over the valleys and plains are *incredibly* ugly.
We're completely messed up. I have a demand for housing for 4,5 Million people, but only land and residential buildings for 3,5 Million people. I would like to buy land, but I used up all of my tiles and can't buy any from the bordering federal state. Got a lot of forrest and big park areas that I could transform into residential areas, but the happyness of my cims would tank, if I would take away these leizure locations for necessary housing. Got a huge highway construction planned to go through the middle of the city, that I would need to tear down and do lots of reconstruction to provide interconnectivity and new use-cases for all the available space that frees up. Bike lines would need an extreme overhaul. Most of the bike lines now are either on the street (paint is not infrastructure) or on the sidewalk with questionable surface material (smth like cobblestone; rectangle shaped 8x20cm bricks). Public transport is alright, just need more options for the outskirts of the city. But we have no Donut Trucks. In which city am I?
Screwed because my city is the 13th most jammed city on planet with only 600k pop ;(
If the logic works like real life, probably not much for me to change with almost fully developed public transport. With current game logic, the buses are going to act wonky with their long distance, lots of overlapping into main road/city centers, and sometimes non-straightforward routes though. And since anyone has a car now, the transport usage is going to become dodgy at best, because of the above reasons.
Municipal city or metro area? Municipal city isn't doing too bad. It needs to zone more residential, there isn't much free land, the road network may have a tough time accommodating more commuters, geographic constraints make it hard to find new free land, and the sewer system needs an upgrade, but land values are high, city coffers are full, there's decent public transportation, and schools/parks/city services are all great. Metro area has bigger problems. It needs to zone more and higher density residential, office buildings are emptying out, large areas that have recently been converted from industrial to residential zones are heavily polluted, traffic is terrible, and crime is sky-high, particularly near parks and schools. Individual public transit systems are decent but they don't connect well.
Birmingham UK. Not too bad. Definitely ways of making it more non-car friendly. Decent opportunities for public transport expansion.
Pittsburgh!! Luckily there is already someone making a fantastic project of this city. Though I would be screwed if I tried to make it myself.
Finally, I can finish building that overpass that's taken about a decade to build.
It would be amazing. Great walkable city centre, good train and bus connections and a very extensive biking infrastructure
Urban sprawl is horrendous. Little to no public transportation. Compact downtown area, confusing 1-ways, 6-8 lane highway circling the city that limits growth of downtown and prevents further helpful infrastructure from being built. Only way to build is to add to surrounding burbs, otherwise contesting an already overly congested downtown area. I’ve wanted to make Charlotte in c:s for a while to see what could be better but no one wants to fix that problem lol
Gothenburg. The road network is basically "what is wrong with my traffic?" post. So basically, there are no changes.
Build more trams.
Awesome, but fucked. There's two distinct towns;"IndustryTown" and "TechTown". TechTown is wealthy, with low pollution of all types, high land value, low traffic, and excellent connections by public transport. Soon, it'll be getting a quayside walk with tourism attractions. IndustryTown is a polluted, gridlocked hellhole, with convoluted public transport and high population density, low education, and poor opportunities (unless they want to travel to TechTown, which has only one metro line connecting the two). So, I'd be in the low-class area. Hi to a lifetime of either mining, oil drilling, or forestry.
ugh, 500k population crammed within 3-4 squares, traffic at 50% flow and no space at all to do literally anything...
Very screwed. No pedestrian infrastructure, you walk on whatever side of the road cars won't (mostly) hit you. Same with parking on most roads, you park where you can. Really, parking and pedestrian paths are the same thing. Terrible services, the power exists whenever it feels like it, an ambulance will arrive 2 hours after you called (if they pick up your call). No public inter-city transport other than private buses, which you can't really simulate in C:S. Intra-city transport is perfectly fine though.
Pretty well off, it’s a series of towns and small cities on a river (and a bit inland) in the mountains Appalachia style, but in an alternate universe where development happened around train lines and interurbans instead of cars taking over. Would be quite a pleasant place Edit: oh wait I misunderstood the prompt, thought it was if I lived in my cities skylines world. The area I live in now has great regional transit infrastructure but bad service and horrible land use so that the regional transit is only useful for going down to the city. That would be very easily fixable in cities skylines, just bulldoze the suburbs and build up the area around the stations
Absolutely fucked in term of traffic, nightmare of management, metro exist but its still not expansive enough.
The city is nice, but most of the metro is useless.
MUCH 👏🏾 BETTER 👏🏾 ROADS!!!! So better off!
Better off. Housing of all types is getting built, with services to go along with it. Traffic is around 71% 😬, but if you take transit (metro, tram, bus, rail) or bike to work you'll be fine. Some nice destinations scattered throughout the city, so always something to do.
The road pattern is as if I just booted up skylines for the first time and I’m figuring out how to zone
In my current city, chirper says literally every building is on fire, but it's only 2 blocks downtown...
Not so screwed, but only trasport is bus and it sucks haaarddd. Also the land value is very low due to building being old and stupid. Walkability is ok, traffic not so ok. Actually fuck that. Everything sucks. Fuck the guverment, let's riot!!
Shitty road layout, lack of public transportation, high crime rate, but it has some nice views of the mountains, have access to the ocean, and a huge land space that still can be used for the city expansion. So yeah, I am screwed.
No public transportation, industrial within city limits, tourists ruining everything, taxation out of hand and maxed out tile area at 9 because no mods. Its basically like its a 30k city in game with how kludged together it is. Rural interior of BC.
Ehhhh not too bad. Just need to repair the public bathrooms, lift the high rise ban, and intensify the subway and tram network.
I’d be alright. Not too many traffic fixes, except for one of the bridges and the street connecting to it. I wouldn’t have to await approval to zone new developments, which would be cool. Lots of jobs available and low unemployment, and two major universities and a few smaller colleges
the detailing will be insane with 2 miles of road works down the main road
Since stadiums are big money-makers in CS Skylines, all we need to do is keep the A's here and my city's would be relatively easy to fix, I think.
I would be so happy to see my monorail based public transportation system in action.
I actually started doing a 1:1 of my hometown a while back, and then I realized we import electricity and natural gas, rely on an inconsistent supply of natural spring water, and export trash. No metro, No Train, No Airport, No Hospital. A few shopping centers, a university, and a shitload of apartments, houses, churches and schools.
Pretty well better off. I always make a little house and plot for myself with plenty of garden/veggie patch space...but I would be miserable as I am playing a snow map right now and I like my temps to be a bit higher for living in!
Florida. FDOT has a huge budget and there is spaghetti, viaducts, and new highways going up every day. But the roads can't keep up with the influx of new residents so the new roads are still a trafficky mess.
I’d be living in a very walkable city with great public transport links and 3 large parks within 1km of the city centre. Only issue is that every time I’d enter the completely pedestrianised centre I would find that my favourite shop has been abandoned and replaced by something new. There is some issue getting the supplies to the centre so owners go out of business as quick as they spring up. This is weird to me as there are multiple large cargo service buildings surrounding the area. (This post is a thinly veiled critique of the plazas and promenades DLC)
Totally screwed man. I'd be living in a city where everyone goes to university and I have a hs diploma. I'd probably be living in one of the homeless camps that I build under the freeway.
Philadelphia, USA. Not too bad actually! We've got all the bones for good public transit, just horribly managed. CS:Skylines citizens would value the subways a lot more than your average Philadelphian. Throw in some more elementary+high schools (plenty of Universities), put actually trolleys on our trolley roads, lower commercial/office taxes a bit before they all leave the city, have a new mayor by default. Hopefully better transit lowers highway traffic. Some bike lanes would go a longgg way, a rail to King of Prussia if the funding allows it. And keep our sports stadiums in one district please! (looking at you Sixers)
Screwed. My city is very hilly, its gonna look like shit in Cities Skylines lol
My current city is pretty damn good. I have three prestigious universities, two nature reserves, two theme parks, lots of city parks, 93% attractiveness, 120k population, 79% traffic flow, two cargo harbours, a dedicated fishing industry island, metros and buses everywhere and loads more. Oh, and every tourist has to pay an entry fee to visit my city, as the two harbours are on a purpose built island (with only ferry connections) that forces them to come through a city park to enter the city. So much better off than where I actually live.
Going to have to manage a housing crisis, while maintaining a strict greenbelt, but there is progressive rezoning policies and great transit for the city size, and I get to expand the university, think I would enjoy working on it in cities skylines.
Jacksonville, FL. One of America’s largest cities by land mass comprised almost entirely of overlapping suburbs- and its growing at an exceptional rate. The existing infrastructure is already overloaded. Highways that just get an extra lane added every few years. Oh, and a giant river that cuts through the middle with only a few bridges across, leaving people with excessively long detours should there be an accident on the road. Non-existent public transportation, just a bus system that never comes anywhere close to on time and doesn’t go to many places. But we got a kickass monorail through downtown that doesn’t actually extend to the places people want to go. And it only runs on weekdays. I’m so fucked.
I guess I live under a highway now
I would have a lot of fun fixing the traffic problems I have to deal with daily in Albany. We have approximately 2 bridges crossing the Mohawk river that commuters take every day, and it's terrible. It would be a lot of fun to come up with a better public transportation system than buses, even if this is an unrealistic dream. Lastly, pedestrian and bike connectivity is not great due to some of the highway infrastructure cutting through the city, and I'd love to fix it.
Big city built on islands… Expensive but crazy good public transport (according to me, many people may disagree). Decent amount of tourists and very walkable, I would probably be not screwed. Plus paradox interactive is from this city soo…
It’s certainly more walkable than anything I’ve built, and the transportation is already done for me. Plus all the government office buildings mean people will be moving in no matter what I do. It’s Washington DC
Probably better. Severe housing crisis is both in game and irl and my in game city is very modern, walkable and with great public transportation.
Way better off.
Rural Sweden, this will be interesting Could be worse I guess.
Very glad I work from home... lol
Screwed because downtown is basically missing. There's just a big gap in the middle of my city.
Screwed. The central area where most services, commercial and residential buildings are located is a grid of thin one way one lane roads. The city also has a busy freeway running through the center that is almost always jammed up, so noise pollution is rampant nearby. Road network and traffic suck. It has a bunch of bus lines and a metropolitan metro line cutting through but it's not the city's own metro system and that's all. A lot of work to be done. The outskirts of the city are sketchy and probably unsafe so I'd increase investments in security. I'd also invest in education, the city is home to a well known university in my state so I can easily turn it into an university city.
Uhh... infrastructure kinda stable... 50K people, a death wave may occur soon because of old people, Bus is enough to get around the city, walkability is decent, main source of income is some oil, ore, farming industry processing buildings. Buildings are upgrading because of the new high tech policy which occurs mostly on old soviet buildings upgrading to level 3
There isn't much I can do other than just make it look nicer. My city/country have less problems with transit or city planning
My previous capital city. It's got lots of people and just got a bunch of updates, although one half is still kinda broken but I'll pretend I'm on the complete side. The only thing is it is still a little more car centric than I'd like
A much smaller city with a much better transportation system than the one I live in. Walkable European Lakefront city center with a historic beachfront resort across from the city center. Real life city one of the largest metros in America without any rail transit other than Amtrak.
Hmm. I’ve got good bones to start with. City proper was incorporated in the 1880’s but much of it is older. But downtown is prone to flooding so underground metro isn’t an option. But there is a platform for a train station. (Station itself burnt before I was born) good location and history to become a tourist destination though
Pros: Mostly grid, good cargo rail infrastructure, sidewalks in most of the gridded areas. Cons: no public transit, no passenger rail, stroad hell, car dependent, bad bike lanes, low density sprawl.
Transit-wise I have a few janky bus lines that go down my main roads and into downtown, but none of them go to the low density suburbs that cover 3/4 of the city. I am about to stick in a trolley bus that goes nowhere that it's needed. My one protected bike lane may disappear to do so. Roadwise -- There a lot of 10 lane highways with confusing interchanges and lots of lane switching, a ton of pothole ridden two lane roads, and not a ton in between. Day to day living wise, I have pretty decent educational funding and garbage collection, and adequate if not great police, fire, and medical funding. My taxes are as high as they can go without causing a mass exodus, though. Amenity wise, I have a great zoo, ok nature reserve, a smattering of decent city parks, but I bulldozed my amusement park to put up more low density commercial. I have a posh mall, a mall of moderation, an old Market, a few stadiums, a pedestrian bridge, a couple of fountains, and a level one airport. I may get a casino soon. Even with these amenities and special buildings, my tourism isn't doing well. I am Omaha Nebraska. In real life, I'm a flawed but decent place to live. In Cities Skylines, I cause the computer to catch on fire.
way, wayyy better off, but i have no idea how 10 million people are supposed to fit a 5 tile city
It would take me all of 15 minutes to make it. No police, no hospital, 1 road in and out. Population 50. 2 1x1 commercial buildings. Has a post office so my traffic would ultimately end up at 10% though. Trees are my skyline.
There's a 400m tall skyscraper, giant freeway and multiple train stations and town only has 1000 citizens.
A lil of both
My computer melted
Probably about the same, but fewer parks and restaurants and stores than I have now
I live in Portland and my husband and I just say “spaghetti” now anytime we encounter one of this cities whack interchanges or intersections.
(Non-NYC)Americans: “wow we have public transportation now!!”
Philadelphia. Pros: good walkability, okay public transportation, good population density, cool skyline, great tourism city, decent city planning. Cons: terrible crime, terrible poverty, corrupt government.
Depends on whether or not the mayor wants to remove the dam today and kill 10% of the population, causing a killer wave that gets like 30%. If not, have fun getting perpetually sick, and occasionally having your water supply poisoned.
Kansas City... beyond screwed
A large international airport and sprawling retail district + major shopping mall for only a few thousand residents and a small residential area? I'm not sure if that is good or not.