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Hi @lordtyger9 Apologies, I think I must have missed this when you posted!
Yes, you can try deleting caches (and the neighbourhood manager if you like, but I doubt that will do any good). Firstly, do you have your Documents/EAGames folder synching to OneDrive or any cloud storage? If so, turn that off as this can cause a file lock to be put on your game files, so preventing the game from writing to them. Next thing to check is that your antivirus program isn't set to on-access scan files in your Documents/ EAGames folder.
With Sims 2, the actual neighbourhood itself is saved on exit (be that when you load another neighbourhood, load a lot or exit the game). So it sounds like for some reason, your La Fiesta Tech neighbourhood file was either unable to save, or was interrupted whilst saving. These are some likely causes of hoods not loading.
Other causes could be custom content causing issues (especially likely if you have any mods that deal with hood terrain or hood deco, as those will be called upon hood load). To test this,
backup the game and then test with custom content removed. (You can put the CC back and restore your
backup after you tested). Does it load now?
Also, you could run the hood through
Hood Checker and let that program repair any errors. As always,
backup before you do this!