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Do Your Children Move Back in to the Family Home After Graduating University?
Brd709
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A question i've always wondered, do your children move back in to the family home once they've graduated university or do you give them a few Simoleans and let them live their life on their own? Most of my sim self's children have always gone their own way after graduating university and ended up finding or building their own place to live once they've found work. There have been one of two of my sim self's children who did come back home because they weren't ready to be on their own or didn't know what they wanted out of life yet.
My sim self's daughter Beatrix left the family home in 1984 when she became an Young Adult and went travelling. She returned in 1986 when she ran out of travel money and lived with her father (my sim self) To raise more money to continue her travels, she started making and selling her own jewellery at a local market where she made some kind of pocket money. While trying to raise travel money she was scouted by cable Jewellery Shopping Channel and they sold some of her Jewellery on there which made her rich enough to go travelling again.
She returned to the nest once more in 1988 when she decided she was ready to go to university. She graduated university in 1988 and as of 2002 in my current save she is top of the military career living in her own apartment.
No matter how old my sim self's kids are, his door is always open to them for what ever reason they need to come home again.
My sim self's daughter Beatrix left the family home in 1984 when she became an Young Adult and went travelling. She returned in 1986 when she ran out of travel money and lived with her father (my sim self) To raise more money to continue her travels, she started making and selling her own jewellery at a local market where she made some kind of pocket money. While trying to raise travel money she was scouted by cable Jewellery Shopping Channel and they sold some of her Jewellery on there which made her rich enough to go travelling again.
She returned to the nest once more in 1988 when she decided she was ready to go to university. She graduated university in 1988 and as of 2002 in my current save she is top of the military career living in her own apartment.
No matter how old my sim self's kids are, his door is always open to them for what ever reason they need to come home again.
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However, I don't play the game realistically. My plan for my Sims kids would be that the heirs of each family would move back into their childhood home with their parents, and start a family. That way the house will stay with the family, and keep the family generational. Plus, they would have the most kids. As for the kids that aren't heirs, they would get some money to move out, and are free to do what they want. If they have kids, I will limit them to only one, so that the Sim population doesn't cull the family. So, overall, heirs return home and live with the parents, but their siblings that aren't heirs move out and do what they want.
If any of the kids in my other saves I do one of two things A) if its not against the rules of the challenge they do come back home if they don't have the money for a vacant lot or for a lot that has a residential dwelling on it til they can afford a place on their own,
@Umbreon12 I did a similar thing with my sim self's late son Andrew. He built his own house after graduating university in 1982 and in 1990 he died from laughter. In his will it was his wish that the house get passed down through his children: his alien daughter Daisy and his human sons Brian and Clyde. After Andrew was sent to the Netherworld, Daisy inherited the house where she has raised three of her own children and her stepson. They are now moving to Sulani to live with her husband's elderly father. Brian is next in line to inherit his father's house and he will be moving in once he graduates university. I won't be moving Daisy and family out until Brian has entered so Daisy's family gets a fresh household inventory.
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Otherwise, they would move back to their family home if their parents are likely soon to die from old age. Otherwise, they would start a new life somewhere else.
I am still on my first generations of Sims, I have them all on long setting, with aging off. I don't think I will build a house, because I am not very good at it. However, my plans are similar to your plans, which is to give the house to the children. The heirs will have the house, and will keep the house, unless something happens to the heirs. Like if they have a child, and they pass away, one of their siblings would move in to take are of them, until the children are old enough to live on their own.
Your Sims sound amazing, and it is nice that even though Daisy was the first heir, she will leave to live with her husband's elderly father with her family. At least Brian will get the original inventory, while they get a brand new one.
Also, part of the reason I want to keep the houses, is so that if I have Neighborhood stories on, no one moves in. Also, so that I don't lose the original furniture as well. Also, some families I used the money cheat with, so I want to keep their big houses in the family.
@Umbreon12 Daisy's husband is Jayce Kealoah who is the son of Makoa Kealoah who lives on the Kinship lot in Sulani. The Kinship lot. is pretty much untouched since Makoa's wife seems to have been culled at some point and Duane Talla now lives in Newcrest with a family of his own thanks to MCCC and Neighbourhood Stories.
I went through some old screenshots and you might be interested to see how Daisy's house has kept the same since her late father built it. These are from Daisy's father's Andrew's first day in the house back in 1982:
The welcome wagon has arrived, i recognise that fruitcake anywhere!
From left to right: Daisy's late father Andrew, my sim self (Andrew, Tommy and Sienna's father) Andrew's late brother Tommy, Tommy and Andrew's sister Sienna and a former neighbour:
The same area of the house in the current year of 2002:
Around the table clockwise: My sim self's cousins: Connor (who the plumbob is focused on) and his brother Riordan, my sim self's son Jacob, the next heir of the house Brian and my sim self's cousin Sean. Daisy has let Brian and the others live there for their final two terms of University. Daisy will transfer the house over to him once Brian has graduated.
The original living room layout from 1982:
The kitchen from 1982:
The kitchen in the current year of 2002:
The exterior hasn't changed too much.
The front of the house in 1982:
The front of the house in 1993:
The front as it looks in the current year of 2002. (The archway was put there in 1994)
And a bonus pic: Daisy with her father Andrew as an alien baby:
Those are incredible!
I love the past vs the newer generation rooms, not much has changed, just updated. The family looks amazing too, and I love the lore you have for them.
I don't have the MCC mod, most of my Sims 4 is on my PS4, with only the base game and romantic garden(free) on my PC. Also, the culling is annoying, so you always have to watch out for that.
@Umbreon12 Thank you! At the start of each new sim year i create a new save file so i have loads of old saves which show the family in their previous sizes and life stages. Originally my sim self was set on only having six children but events in the game lead him to having twelve spread over three marriages. Tommy's red hair still puzzles me to date, his mother Liberty Lee never had red hair nor did my sim self at any stage!
Although "For Rent" has lots of bugs, it is a good DLC because I want more living places!
(P.S. I have >700 sims in my save)
The Vatore siblings in my save maybe exceptional.
Lilith married, her husband moved in. They have 2 children in their first part of life.
Caleb married, his wife moved in. They have 2 children.
The full house 8 people were living together, until the 4 children attended college.
After Lilith's second child attended college, Lilith gave birth to her 3rd child, a girl. When this little girl turned toddler, Lilith adopted 7 more orphans and 2 kittens.
At the same time, Caleb and his wife moved to Henford-on-Bagley. Their son moved in after graduated, but he is still single.
Of those who moved out for uni recently, some moved back home:
- Engaged couple Emma and Hugo went straight to Law School (gamemechanically their second degree) and also rented an apartment together.
- Christie Sigworth from Strangerville got a job in Moonwood Mill and lives in an apartment above her workplace.
- Elsa Bjergsen moved back in with her parents. She is so focused on her job at Future Labs that she doesn't have the capacity for independent living. Hotel Mama is most convenient!
- The werewolves all returned to their former living situation, so that means Jacob Volkov moved back in with his parents.
@Umbreon12 There was no CC involved at all in the game at the time Tommy was born so i don't know how he got his red hair. I have had sims age up to Children/Teens/ Young Adults with the most bizarre random hair styles and outfits that they either make me laugh out loud or go "no, no no!" lol.
In early arguments between my sim self and Tommy's mother Liberty a running joke would be about Tommy's hair to which Liberty would always respond "Yes he is yours!"
The only other thing I can think of is maybe having one parent having an unusual color that you can give sims in the game or a glitch. I had a Sim female with purple hair, her hair style was CC, but the purple I used could be found in the game. She married Don Lothario, and four of their five kids had black hair, while one child ended up with red hair. However, two townie Sims from Snowy Escape both have black hair, but people have reported that their kid is often a redhead.
The outfits they get as they grow is a huge miss, so it is really is funny.
Maybe black hair isn't Liberty Lee's natural color. However, genes in Sims 4 are really weird, and don't really follow reality.
The only ones of Erik's now seven children that have left home are the twins. They bought a small apartment complex where they live and run things. Daddy, of course helped with the financing and carries the note on the place. Andrew, the second son and fourth child is currently studying at home, in his second term at Uni. Britechester-U. Peter and Cadence are still in high school, which they could graduate early, but have declined to do so. They are hoping for a true graduation ceremony, which Andrew didn't quite get as the game malfunctioned once again.
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