Do you know any neighborhoods that are populated already with nice sims? I just created a lot of sims myself to populate the town but I realized when I finished that I didn’t have my notownieregan mod in my downloads folder.

Hey anon! I’m sorry, but I think I might be misunderstanding your question a bit. If you made all those custom sims yourself to populate a fresh, clean hood, you could just add the notownieregen mod and then start a new neighborhood. It would be free of automatically-spawned townies, allowing you to add only your own sims to the hood. 

Unless you didn’t save the sims you used to populate the hood that’s already been infiltrated with spawned townies? In that case, you could always extract them using this method (you can extract and save any in-game sim in bodyshop, allowing you to edit and re-introduce them to any new neighborhood you want!). 

If you don’t want to recreate or extract all the sims you made and just want to start playing, MTS has a couple of pre-populated neighborhoods (just look through the tag, they’re usually clearly labeled if they’re inhabited or not!). Other than that, the only one that specifically comes to mind that I’ve wanted to try but I can barely handle my own neighborhood heheh is Europa by @katatty. I’m sorry I don’t have more specific suggestions, I’ve never downloaded/played a custom pre-populated neighborhood before!

If I misinterpreted or didn’t answer your question, feel free to send me another message for clarification. 😀