Sunset Valley

Sunset Valley is the only neighborhood being shipped with The Sims 3. It is very large compared to the neighborhoods in previous The Sims games, having a total of 97 lots with various playable characters. There are lots of different types of houses like, a rustic home on a hill, a modern house in the suburbs, a house by the beach and many more. The main part of the town is the park, where you can have a picnic, go fishing or take a stroll and maybe meet someone new, there are also cinemas, gyms, restaurants, shops, pools, and other recreational facilities. Tons of places to work, where Sims can live out their dreams or crash and burn. Sims can now visit all their friend's and neighbor's homes and call up their friends with the new cell phone, and go out on the town and party. Sims also now can have a laptop.

Sunset Valley is Pleasantview before the original in The Sims, which the neighborhood is named Old Town. The Goth Family will be there as their younger selves, presumably, Mortimer as a child with his parents, as well as many other familiar families, including the Bachelor Family and the Pleasant Family. So far new families are the Wolff Family, Hart Family, Altos Family, Ursine Family, Keaton Family, Hipp Family, Buckingham Family, Sanchez/Smith Family, and the Zavarez Family. Families returning from the Sims 2 are the Goth Family, Bachelor Family, Pleasant Family, Oldie Family, Landgraab Family, Simovitch Family, and Newbie Family.

Mrs. Crumplebottom will be around as her younger self. The source of her crabbiness is revealed to be due to her husbands death, her husband features as a ghost.

Families
The Wolff Family are a newly married couple living along the beach. It seems like they have the perfect life, but it turns out they rushed into their marriage to quickly before finding out that Thorton is against fatherhood, while Morgana wants to have as many children as possible.

The Hart Family appears to be a normal family...well except the fact that both the mother and father have the insane trait. Their, daughter Bebe is just trying to be a normal teenager in this chaotic family.

The Ursine Family or Claire Ursine is a single lady who lives alone and loves to fish. She might seem like a normal woman, but it turns out she's Pregnant (the father is unknown) and she has a job in the Criminal Career!!!

The Alto Family is simply described as "Nouveau Riche and Evil." Their family name may be a pun on the television series "The Sopranos." They seem to have a rivalry with the Landgraab Family.

The Goth Family The Goth Family are the founders of Sunset Valley and are very wealthy. Since this is way before The Sims 2, Gunther Goth and his wife Cornelia are adults, with Mortimer Goth as a child. (Mortimer Goth seems to have a crush on Bella.)

The Bachelor Family will appear with Jocasta Bachelor dealing with her husband Simis's recent death. She's raising her child Bella on her own and is pregnant with her son Micheal.


 * The Langerak Family: Now you get to have Kaylynn Langerak as a playable child Sim. She actually comes from a wealthy family. She lives with her father Charles Langerak, her mother and maid Tamina Zavarez, her grandmother Prudence, and her sister Donyelle Langerak. Her father Charles is famous for his many wives who mysteriously died after he found another love interest...


 * The Keaton Family:Try to keep up the sporty Keatons.


 * The Landgraab Family:Live the good life with the Landgraabs as long as your name isn't name Alto. Consists of Malcolm II, Marion Landgraab, and Malcolm Landgraab III.

The 'Crumplebottom Family', Agnes Crumplebottom better known as Mrs. Crumplebottom as her younger self, and her dead husband Robert Crumplebottom featured as a Ghost (see Ghosts).


 * The Hipp Household: This household was created by Grant Rodiek in a Sims 3 video. It consists of Liam O'Dourke, Kim, and Piper.

The Zavarez Family or Rosemarie Zavarez is a grumpy old lady and the sister of Tamina Zavarez. When this family is first played, a baby is left on her doorstep.

The Buckingham Family will appear with Blair Buckingham, his wife Virginia Buckingham, and the child Margaret Buckingham. Blair is having an affair with the maid Tamina Zavarez.

The Pleasant Family will appear as Jeff Pleasant starting his military job, Diane Pleasant pregnant with Jennifer Burb and Daniel Pleasant as a toddler.

The Oldie Family will appear with Herb Oldie and Coral Oldie. Herb Oldie and Coral Oldie will be in their adult stage and they will not be married yet. If you decide to marry them and to adopt a child, Mary-Sue will be the first child you'll adopt. Herb and Coral will live together.