Game Help:Sims 3 Rabbit Holes and Community Lots
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Rabbit Holes & Community Lots
Rabbit Holes are buildings in which your Sims go inside, but you don't. The Work Places, Grocery Store, and School are all Rabbit Holes. In Work Places and the School, you can control your Sim to a certain extent, I.E. telling them to work harder, Slack Off, Meet Coworkers, etc. The Rabbit Holes are placed on Community Lots, and minor details such as Landscaping can be changed outside. You can't, however, change the look of the actual building. Community Lots, however, act the same as they did in The Sims 2 & The Sims 1. You can see your Sims, and control they're every move. The Parks, Gym, and various Beaches and Lakes are all Community Lots.