Welcome to Cedar Shore
If you've ever driven up to Three Lakes, you might have been to Cedar Shore. After the miles and miles of freeway through the big pine forests, there's an exit and a sign advertising a town called Cedar Shore and gas station about a mile away. Having read up on the area before you left, you'd know that Cedar Lake is one of the lakes Three Lakes is named for, and assume Cedar shore must have gotten it's name from being on the shore of Cedar Lake. Without another chance of filling up you car, visiting the bathroom or getting a snack until you get to Three Lakes in two hours, you might decide to take the exit.
The first thing welcoming visitors to Cedar Shore is Michaelson's, the local gas station. Run by the couple that lives across from it, they offer an assortment of items travelers or people living in the area might need. Gas, snacks, magazines and some grocories. If your car actually decided to give up and you never even made it to the gas station, but had to be towed, you'd also end up here. Melanie Michaelson, one of the owners, is very handy and can fix up your car. If they're closed, there's a note on the noticeboard next to the entrance telling customers to come knock on the house across the street if it's an emergency. There aren't exactly any other places around for food or repairing, so they're happy to help.
In the summer, visitors often stop by Cedar Beach for a dip in the lake and to grill some hot dogs for lunch. It's honestly not the most fancy beach in the world, the lake bed is a little bit rocky, and don't tell any health and safety inspectors about the state of the changing rooms, but after a long car ride, it'll do. Locals often use this beach as a park and come for the playground, to play some football or to watch the waves during all seasons.
If fishing's more your speed, you might want to come to Tall Pine pond instead. Close to the edge of the forest, it's a fishing pond close to a particulary tall pine. It doubles as the local camping site, with a lot of beautiful nature walks close by.
Recently, things have started changing in Cedar Shore. Simcity is desperate for solutions to their housing problems and has started building and improving local roads and putting up plots of lands for sale in hope of encouraging people to move to the area. We'll have to see what these changes bring to the community.
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And that's the introduction of my BAAC neighbourhood. As you might have realised, it's a bit of the deviation from the settlers storyline, but I'm really excited about this. I haven't finished building the homes (and the one home that's finished is covered up by the text in the picture of the map) or creating the settlers, but since all the community lots are done, I wanted to introduce the town. There'll be seven sims in the town to start off and I'll introduce them as soon as I'm done with them and their homes. The town also has the Pleasantview townie pool, because I like those townies and couldn't be bothered to find out how to add other townies.
I'm also gonna add Three Lakes as a destination from the start. Since only two hours away in the story and since my sims'll start off with cars, I imagined that they could drive there if they wanted to get away. I'm still making them pay airfare if they go, gas prices are no joke. Both Three Lakes and cars are probably a little "cheaty" in the challenge sense, but hey, story over challenge is my motto here. I don't know if that'll means Three Lakes townies can come to the town, but I think sims can bring them home from school or work. At least I think that's how Melody Tinker got to know Rosmarie Jitmakusol before any of my sims had been to Three Lakes in my megahood. Anyway, if they do, I just imagine that they're visiting for some reason.
Anyway, I'm gonna contine setting up, I just wanted to post the town. Really looking forward to making this town come to life.
Btw, the map is Sunnyside by bonfiar on MTS.
