I think mine has to be my old hood, Lacuna Delta. I sometimes put it away for a time, but I keep coming back to it and it feels like home.

Nice picture catching the alien ship.

Right now my favourite is this Welsh university town I'm working on. I think it has the perfect balance of cozy and rural with a little bit of that nice gothic university architecture!

Nice! Reminds me of Aberystwyth, even has the railway!

Aberystwyth was the inspiration! Glad to see it came across - I almost went to Aberystwyth but chose against it because it felt too isolated for me, I’ve always had a fondness for it though.

I don't mean to alarm you, but there are some giant gnome monsters invading your neighbourhood!

That's Mr. Gnome's Wild Ride (courtesy of whoward69) !

It looks cool!

I never considered a rollercoaster for my hood to be honest, but it's an idea I might just send a sim to steal your giant gnome for.

I wasn't gonna post as I don't have a fav .. it's usually whichever one I'm currently playin that has my attention .. I'm a habitual restarted with throwaway hoods .. mostly Pleasantview and sometimes added Bluewater and Strangetown ... I've never really been able to getin playin custom hoods (not even the one(s) that I involved in creating in the HBG ... anyways, so currently I'm playin just Pleasantview and it's been interesting .. I think part of why I'm findin this one a bit more fun maybe than the others is that I've been sharin tidbits of what's goin on in the "What's goin on in your hood" thread .. :D

Whatever they are, they definitely ain't dwarfs!

On paper Veronaville, I love the stories, the characters & the architecture but it's quite limited in terms of families ties for a generational gameplay as everybody is related. I have to say even Riverblossom it's quite nice, last year I paired it up with Desiderata Valley and it worked very nicely. DV is quite boring on its own, I find the families quite vanilla as I'm not that interested in hobbies (it's like a secondary aspect for my gameplay purposes).

I guess my favourite is Strangetown though - I find it so iconic with the weird storylines and peculiar characters. I'm especially fond of the expanded Strangetowns by Prah and Chris_Newbie which include console sims and lots.

Each of the premade neighborhoods has its pros and cons, I think.

Pleasantview is probably my favorite overall as it's the most versatile. A good number of interconnected families who aren't all related. A lot of houses but ample room to place more houses and community lots. Meshes well with many architectural styles. Goes nicely with Downtown. I'm fond of the Pleasantview townies. I think a lot of the PV playables use the same face template, though, so in terms of genetics, there may not be a lot of diversity, and some of the Sims are quite boring.

Veronaville: I love the way it looks and the village feel of it. The characters, particularly the teens and kids, are really fun to play with. Probably some of my favorite Sims come from Veronaville. Too few families and way too many Capps. The community lots are awful. It's hard to build because of the flooding issue.

Strangetown: Great lore and back stories for the characters. This is probably my favorite in terms of story potential. I am a horror fan, so I enjoy the dark and supernatural aspects of it. Anything goes in Strangetown! The houses are unusual and I can generally work with them and make them playable. The Curious-Smith family just takes over after a while, though. Too few houses, and as I'm not a builder, I have a hard time finding houses that fit the desert vibe. Eventually, you run out of room in any case and have to add a subhood.

Riverblossom Hills: Really lovely, and a nice map for building on. I played it a lot when I first started playing. It's versatile and makes a nice historical hood, for instance, I like the country decor used throughout. The premades here don't really hold my interest, though, and I'm not fond of Plantsims.

Bluewater Village: A good mix of different kinds of families. I don't like for everyone to own a business, though. The houses are ridiculous, and the community lots are not my favorite either.

I've never played with the Apartment Life/Freetime hoods as I don't have those expansion packs. That also limits the hoods that I can download. I'm afraid I've missed out on some really interesting custom hoods that I've seen people playing on YouTube.

The biggest problem with Veronaville, even expanded Veronaville 2.0, is that it's self-limiting. You play through the present generation, and then what?

Riverblossom Hills doesn't mesh well with any other premade hood, because of the long winters and lots of snow. (I've never really gotten into it.)

Desiderata Valley, Bluewater Village and Belladonna Cove work better as subhoods, I find. There's not enough to them for main hoods.

Pleasantview works either way, though I still prefer the Sims 1 original (or a Sims2 remake of it).

On the whole I find Strangetown holds up best longterm, though the desert esthetic can get a bit monotonous. (Is it a coincidence that my two top favorites both feature alien meddling?) :D

Strangetown! I love the premade stories and the theme.

I think my favorite would have to be Pitstop Valley.

I first started playing it because I wanted a Maxis-like desert themed hood that wasn't Strangetown, (and admittedly didn't have a huge supernatural angle, I was getting tired of aliens and the like) and it really scratched that itch. It's such a small, complex neighborhood with just enough quirks and mystery to keep me entertained, plus the overall town story of a little desert hitch on the old Route 66 is timeless and ties all the stories together. I even had a sub theme of the town trying to pull together a resurgence, using tax funds and such to build up some of the abandoned areas and old construction sites: it gives you the seeds to grow the town and feel like it's changing because of your sims. Every family feels well thought out and unique. A secret agent hunting for her assassination target, a mother daughter duo running the town tavern, a Strangetown reference with Tristian Legend, two guys in a radio station growing "special plants" in the basement... it really feels cheeky and like it easily could have been a Maxis hood in an alternate release.

I like the charm and quirkiness of all the original Maxis neighborhoods, but Riverblossom Hills and Veronaville are my favorite premade neighborhoods. Widespot and Shady Shores are my go-tos for custom neighborhoods.

Strangetown -- but starting with a custom hood that is set before that time, so I can make the Sims more, um, believable? bizarre? And then attach the desert hood Sedona (4 men preg by aliens). And a custom college hood where all the students are ZOMBIES - with the appropriate personalities (and all the NPCs spawn as zombies too). I have dozens of PT's, so I switch them out and get lots of alien babies!
Never liked Veronaville, or playing apartments.