I see what you are saying, but not every city feels the same, and something I’ve wished forwas more diversity in that exact area. If you don’t like playing that way, you can play in other cities that you find more fun, just like in real life, you don’t move to a city that you don’t like the culture, so likewise it makes sense to not place zois you intend to play in a city that you don’t like the culture in a game that has varying cities with varying cultures.
I agree that Bliss Bay needs more cars and more pedestrians in the main streets, especially getting closeto the beach. Would be nice to see frequent joggers by the beach, too. But in neighborhoods, I’m sorry, but you are asking that they change the culture they are accurately reflecting to instead be the culture of another place when they are already making each place have a different feel in that area. I know people walk around their neighborhoods a lot in other locations. I’m saying in California Middle Class neighborhoods, I’ve never seen that, and I have lived in 12 different locations in California and varying classes, in poverty in ghettos and in Middlle Class areas, and have family all over California ranging from poor to rich, plus friends, and family friends, and the only places I ever see anyone walking in the neighborhood are in the low-income areas. This isn’t bad, I think it’s great and actually my favorite places to be and live have been the low-income neighborhoods. However in all the Middle Class and up neighborhoods, you don’t see people at all. People are literally scared to be seen walking around unless it’s on non-residential streets. It’s seen as rude or creepy to knock on a neighbor’s door. People wave, smile, or say hi if you happen to see someone outside, but that’s it, no one even introduces themselves, and it’s considered bad to do so, but not it’s less intense in poor neighborhoods. But that might be due to influence from other cultures because more people not native to California live there. Or maybe just the overall more down-to-earth attitudes of people who have learned that appearance isn’t everything, but appearance is a lot to the cultures of Middle Class and up people here. This is afterall the home of Hollywood and where the culture of US entertainment industries originated mostly from.
I would love to see the differences in things like this and would think it would be a very cutting-edge thing to include in the game and they are already doing it
I think it is maybe uncommon for most cultures to not walk around in neighborhoods. To go for a walk, people first travel to a park, or the beach; to ride your bike, people first travel to a park or beach.
So it’s asking to get rid of that reflection of the culture here.
Here, someone once made a song about this exact phenomenon in California. It’s kind of making fun of it, because obviously people DO walk in California, but not like other places and most people (not me) judge people for walking if they see someone walking in a neighborhood or, in some cities, even walking ANYWHERE unless it’s a park. LA obviously has such a huge population plus many poor (and therefore down-to-earth) people so people DO walk, but definitely not in the Middle Class or wealthy neighborhoods, and it’s still even there frowned upon to walk unless you’re at the beach or some type of park or communal area.
What this song says is how it is and is about the culture we are talking about now
