Strangetown

Strangetown () is one of the pre-made neighborhoods in The Sims 2. It is also the smallest of the three neighborhoods shipped with The Sims 2; there are 11 lots, one of which has not yet been built on, and 187 Sims. Strangetown is the neighborhood that is used in the The Sims 2 for Nintendo DS and GBA versions of the games, although only Tank Grunt and Johnny Smith make an appearance. The Sims 2 on PSP, however, takes place wholly in Strangetown with much of the same cast and added Sims. According to Deputy Duncan, Strangetown was named after his great-great-great-uncle on his mother's side; a lawman called Sheriff Paul Strange.
Strangetown is also connected with the Pleasantview storyline, in which Bella Goth has been abducted by aliens, and then left in Strangetown. Also there is a broken down spaceship in a large crater that looks like it was caused by a meteor, but was probably caused by the spaceship's impact. This suggests the spaceship could have crashed when returning to Pleasantview with Bella Goth. However, it is also possible that the spaceship was Pollination Technician #9 Smith's.
Most of the pre-made families in the PC version of Strangetown have at least one career reward object.
The town's configuration is different in each game in which it appears. Putting the different versions (from all versions of The Sims 2: PC, PSP, GBA, DS, console) of the town together, Strangetown gets a big variety of lots including a grocery store, library, city hall, meetinghouse, saloons, pawn-shop, nuclear power plant, a dam, a greenhouse, a zoo, an art gallery, a movie studio, a hotel, a casino, a pyramid, a dance club, a cow farm, labs, military base, abandoned warehouse, public pool, clothing shop, a salt mine, jail and of course, graveyards and the iconic Crash Site. It also features interesting housing, from old trailers to an igloo and more than 200 Sims.
==Description==
Strangetown is a small desert town with few inhabitants. There are two main streets, known as the Road to Nowhere, placed parallel with each other, around which the majority of the town is built. There are also three smaller roads, two of which are dead ends. Strangetown's landscape is barren, with only scattered cacti as flora. 
Strangetown only features two community lots, placed right next to each other; a large swimming pool, and at what appears to be decommissioned military buildings and a church, repurposed to be Strangetown's only clothing, grocery and bookstores. The every residential lot, except three are placed in a row next to each other, on the opposite side of the road from the community lots, On the outskirts of town is a large crater, with the broken remains of a U.F.O buried in the middle.
Considering the desert setting and references to Area 51 aliens, Strangetown may be located in the state of Nevada.
==The Sims 2==
===Lots===
====Residential lots====
=====Inhabited=====
*1 Tesla Court, owned by Beaker
*13 Dead End Lane, owned by Specter
*101 Road to Nowhere, owned by Smith
*2 Cover Up Road, owned by Curious
*51 Road to Nowhere, owned by Grunt
=====Uninhabited=====
*57 Road to Nowhere
*73 Road to Nowhere
*91 Road to Nowhere
*188 Road to Nowhere
====Community lots====
*88 Road to Nowhere
*94 Road to Nowhere
===Families===
====Playable Families====
*Beaker household 1 Tesla Court
:§2,466
:Loki Beaker, Circe Beaker, Nervous Subject
:What experiments are the highly secretive and less than neighborly Loki and Circe Beaker performing on poor Nervous Subject? Will this secrecy affect Circe's career ambitions?
*Curious family 2 Cover Up Road
:§4,242
:Pascal Curious, Lazlo Curious, Vidcund Curious
:In search of truth and mystery, the Curious brothers got more than they were "expecting." Can Pascal, Lazlo, and Vidcund cope with their new roles as cosmic parents?
*Grunt family 51 Road to Nowhere
:§7,225
:General Buzz Grunt, Tank Grunt, Ripp Grunt, Buck Grunt
:Tank has always lived under the hard thumb of his father, General Buzz Grunt. In this domesticated boot camp, can Tank prove his worth to this demanding Dad?
*Smith family 101 Road to Nowhere
:§6,129
:Pollination Tech#9 Smith, Jenny Smith, Johnny Smith, Jill Smith
:After a fruitful career, Pollination Technician 9 has retired to his favorite planet. But can his son Johnny make friends and fit in, or is this family just too strange for Strangetown?
*Specter family 13 Dead End Lane
:§41,365
:Olive Specter, Ophelia Nigmos
:Who is buried in Olive Specter's garden? Will the mysterious, aging outcast leave her fortune to her niece Ophelia, or, as rumored, to an unnamed heir?
====Family bin families====
*Loner family
:§20,050
:Ajay Loner
:Ajay has come to Strangetown hoping to find himself. Will he be successful in his new home or will the odd things that always seem to happen here drive him away?
*Singles household
:§22,901
:Chloe Singles, Lola Singles, Erin Singles, Kristen Singles
:Has there ever been a group of roommates so different from one another? As if living in Strangetown isn't hard enough, will these girls be able to accept their differences and be friends or will the tension tear the house apart?
== Townies and NPCs ==
===Townies===
*Marion Almassizadeh
*Holly Andersen
*Renee Andrews
*Abhijeet Cho
*Amin Couderc
*Jessica Ebadi
*Edward Fuchs
*David Gibson
*Katelyn Goss
*Bella Goth
*Vicki Hourvitz
*Margaret Howe
*Matthew Howe
*Joel Jeffress
*Gerard Landry
*Kendal Lawson
*Blair Mace
*Quinten McAuley
*Camryn McGaw
*Cooper Olshfski
*Johnson Pai
*Samuel Riley
*Tiffany Riley
*Tina Roennigke
*Trista Shaw
*Trista Shaw
*River Smith
*Kana Thomason
*Crystal Vu
*Gary Walton
*Barbara Young
===NPCs===
*Meredith Lillard (Bartender)
*Samuel Shahan (Bartender)
*Colin Straight (Bartender)
*Amin Custer (Burglar)
*Chloe Gonzaga (Burglar)
*Oliver Phelps (Burglar)
*Blair Enriquez (Cashier)
*Allison Fuchs (Cashier)
*Brittany Parker (Cashier)
*Daryl Gregory (Delivery Person)
*Gordon Kim (Delivery Person)
*Shelby Zaidi (Delivery Person)
*Forrest Fancey (Driver)
*Stacy Phelps (Driver)
*Nikki Todd (Driver)
*Alvin Jalowitz (Exterminator)
*Randy Kody (Exterminator)
*Christy Stratton (Exterminator)
*Dorian Miguel (Firefighter)
*Kimberly Monif (Firefighter)
*Weldon Tellerman (Firefighter)
*Nancy Philippine (Gardener)
*Tristen Tan (Gardener)
*Darren Wood (Gardener)
*Matthew Gibson (Headmaster)
*Andrew Gonzaga (Headmaster)
*Garrett Nanale (Headmaster)
*Aiyana Dallas (Maid)
*Xavier Hurt (Maid)
*Genesis Lam (Maid)
*Shane Brown (Mail Carrier)
*Cooper Rossi (Mail Carrier)
*Jan Tellerman (Mail Carrier)
*Vicki Hourvitz (Nanny)
*Sophie Miguel (Nanny)
*Nicole Thompson (Nanny)
*Paul Corsillo (Newspaper Delivery Boy)
*Marie Mazza (Newspaper Delivery Girl)
*Esther Tse (Newspaper Delivery Girl)
*Payton Wade (Newspaper Delivery Boy)
*Marion Almassizadeh (Pizza Delivery Girl)
*Jess Shaikh (Pizza Delivery Boy)
*Steffi Trottier (Driver)
*Jenna Cameron (Police Officer)
*Chandler Couderc (Police Officer)
*Larry Mace (Police Officer)
*Benjamin Haggerty (Repairman)
*Scot McCullough (Repairman)
*Daisy Wheeler (Repairwoman)
===Deceased Sims===
*Bjorn Beaker
*Canute Beaker
*Gertrude Beaker
*Gundrun Beaker
*Benjamin Cho (Starvation)
*Glabe Curious
*Glarn Curious
*Kitty Curious
*Notzo Curious
*Zo Curious
*Earl E. DeMise (Electrocution)
*Tim Lee DeMise (Electrocution)
*Colony Drone 2121
*Colony Drone 65535
*Colony Drone 1000101
*Jessica Ebadi (Starvation)
*Bhu Frehndly
*Milony Frehndly
*Knut Futa
*Danielle Greaves (Starvation)
*General Chip Grunt
*General Rock Grunt
*Lyla Grunt (Electrocution)
*Missy Grunt
*Wanda Grunt
*Ingibjorg Halfdanarson
*Leif Halfdanarson
*Annie Hogleg
*Hamm Hogleg
*Patrick Jones (Electrocution)
*Jeevika Loner
*Kavi Loner
*Madhuri Loner
*Vikram Loner
*Arty Loste
*Daisy Loste
*Goshem Loste
*Vera Loste
*Gwrtheyrn McGork
*Moira McGork
*Mary Melons
*Rigger Mortis (Fire)
*Lerato Muenda (Fire)
*Peponi Muenda (Fire)
*Creon Nigmos (Drowning)
*Hecate Nigmos
*Willow Nigmos (Drowning)
*Zog Nigmos
*Birth Queen
*Birth Queen
*Birth Queen
*Andros Salamis
*Eurydice Salamis
*Grainne Salamis
*Xanthos Salamis
*Leonard Simnitch
*Petunia Simnitch
*Melissa Sims (Starvation)
*Vicki Sims (Starvation)
*Luc Smith (Drowning)
*Ichabod Specter (Old age)
*Mike Steel
*Nervous Subject (hidden) (Satellite)
*Hugh Thanasia (Fire)
*Lou Thanasia
*A.P. Vandermorgan
*Jacqueline Vandermorgan
*Brenda Zaidi (Drowning)
*Seth Zaidi (Starvation)
==Strangetown in other games==
===The Sims 2 (PSP)===
Strangetown reappears in The Sims 2 for PlayStation Portable, although the districts in the game do not exist in the PC version of Strangetown. The locations in Strangetown are the Service Station, Paradise Place, Deadtree, Division 47, and the Monument.
===The Sims 2 (console)===
Strangetown reappears in The Sims 2 for console, although it is just a district of the whole neighborhood.
===The Sims 2 (Nintendo DS)===
Strangetown appears in The Sims 2 for Nintendo DS, although it is only a small portion of the town. The locations are the Strangetown Hotel, the Strangetown Store, the City Hall, the Jail, Mamma Hogg's Saloon, Jebidiah S. Jerky's Cow Pasture, and the desert. The Strangetown Hotel is the biggest area in the game, with 5 floors (including the basement) and a number of guest rooms as well as many other rooms. According to Tristan Legend, Strangetown is constantly invaded by Emperor Xizzle and his minions. Later in the game, it is also invaded by Jimmy "The Neck", Crime Spree Bob, and Optimum Alfred.
===The Sims 2 (GBA)===
Strangetown reappears in The Sims 2 for Game Boy Advance. The town is divided in several districts that are not part of any other version. These districts are the Dust Vale, Death Gulch, Nuclear Plant, Canyonero Grande, the Strangetown Zoo and the Wastelands. Their names are not on the map but they appear when looking through the telescope in the Pawn Shop in the mission "A Brand New Scent".
The locations in Strangetown include: the Strangetown Saloon, the City Hall, the Re-Spawn Pawn Shop, the Snake-Eyes Casino, the Medical Center, the Warehouse, the Nuclear Power Plant, the Zoo, the Gothic Gardens, Jeb's Cattle Ranch, Optimum's Tech Factory, the Grand Swirlee Dam, the Cavern Club, the Salt Mines, the Ice Cave, the Ziggurat, and a U.F.O as well as some residential lots that include Frankie Fusilli's underground mansion, Dusty Hogg's trailer and the barracks where Tank Grunt lives.
===SimCity 4===
In the SC4Terrains folder, which can be found in the user data folder of The Sims 2, there's a number of terrains from SimCity 4, including Pleasantview, Strangetown and Veronaville. Strangetown in SimCity 4 is named "Desert Test", probably because it was to see how the Desert terrain would look during the production of The Sims 2.
==Other languages==
Language 	The Sims 2 	The Sims 3
English 	Strangetown 	Strangetown
Brazilian Portuguese 	Estranhópolis 	
Chinese (Simplified) 	奇幻城(Qíhuàn Chéng) 	
Chinese (Traditional)	怪怪城(Guài Guài Chéng) 	
Czech 	Podivín 	
Danish 	Særby 	
Dutch 	Vreemdvoort 	
European Portuguese 	Vilastranha 	
Finnish 	Outolaakso 	
French 	Zarbville 	
German 	Merkwürdighausen 	
Hungarian 	Odaát 	
Italian 	Stranizia 	Stranizia
Japanese 	ストレンジタウン(Sutorenjitaun) 	
Korean 	엽기동산(Yeobgidongsan) 	
Norwegian 	Snålfoss 	Snålfoss
Polish 	Dziwnowo 	
Russian 	Китежград(Kitezhgrad) 	
Spanish 	Las Rarezas 	Las Rarezas
Swedish 	Uddaholm 	
Thai 	สเตรนจ์​ทาวน์ 	
==Trivia==
* Strangetown does not appear in The Sims 3, however, it is mentioned quite a few times:
** If a Sim throws away perfectly good food, the Sim will get the negative moodlet "wasteful". In the description of the moodlet, it is mentioned that "there are starving children in Strangetown!"
**Sometimes the newspaper will mention people suffering from Strangetown Syndrome.
**The Infectious Disease Researcher level of the medical career mentions a contagious "Strangetown Syndrome".
**Also, when a Sim reaches the top level of political career, they may get the Aiding the Victims opportunity which mentions Strangetown suffering from mud and a heavy blizzard, causing the mud to freeze.
**A particular piece of news that randomly appears in the newspaper refers to researchers in Strangetown investigating a phenomenon.
**In The Sims 3 for Nintendo DS, there is a location called "Strangetown Apartments".
*Strangetown Bella is considered a clone by some, and not the true Bella. Many fans remain determined to get the "real" Bella back. It is possible for Bella to return to her family via cheats or mods, but the actual storyline remains that the Bella in Strangetown is the "real" one.
*Road to Nowhere is likely a reference to the Talking Heads' song of the same name, for which the music video prominently features a road in the desert.
nl:Vreemdvoort
es:Las Rarezas
fr:Zarbville
it:Stranizia
pt-br:Estranhópolis
ru:Китежград
pl:Dziwnowo
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