Is anyone else's Resident Services very close to their airport?

[Fawning]

I'm having trouble decorating my entrance because the resident services is so close to the airport.

I've put a pic of my map just so yous can get an idea!

does anyone else have this problem? if you do, how have you designed your entrance?

 

[Mayor-of-Bliss]

Yepppp same. And it's off center. I just kind of put up some lamps and made a path. I had hones and trees by it for a while. I found palm trees and those shell fountains to be cute and not too bad with space. I even added a little seating area with a table oven and clock for a bit.
I think due to closeness I focus in decor not terraforming.

 

[Fawning]

Yepppp same. And it's off center. I just kind of put up some lamps and made a path. I had hones and trees by it for a while. I found palm trees and those shell fountains to be cute and not too bad with space. I even added a little seating area with a table oven and clock for a bit.
I think due to closeness I focus in decor not terraforming.

Yours sounds very cute. I might do the same with the lamps and make a small path. Mines off centre too so the path will have to be diagonal hahaha. I've came to terms I wont be able to do anything big and fancy like the waterfalls or a little river! I guess I'll just have to do some trial and error!

 

[stiney]

Mine is probably about twice the distance as yours is so I do have more breathing room.

For yours, I would try paving the space up to and maybe around the plaza (either the arched stone because I loff it or the brick to look more matchy) and make the entrance look like an extension of the plaza, and add park benches and some trees, maybe a fountain, so that the whole area is like one section. Photos of Copley Square in Boston might help inspire you--the open grassy area/paved section in front of the Trinity Church in the square sort of take the place of the resident services plaza with the town hall as the church, and then there's benches and fountains and trees and flowers around those areas. You could do stalls or the fortune cookie cart from the PC items, too, the farmer's market there in the summer is around the edges and there's often a hot dog vendor.

 

[Mairen]

This was one of the main reasons I ended up resetting my original file. Once I unlocked terraforming, I realized just how much I hated the location of that plaza (so close to the airport, yet so off-centered). I was struggling a lot to come up with any way of decorating up that area. Some people might like the challenge though, and I'm sure there's some really nice things that people came up with to tie that area together. I couldn't get past that creative-block myself though, and I'm much happier with my new map where there's much more space between the airport and plaza.

 

[JKDOS]

Mine is similar to yours, but is a few spaces higher. Even to me, there seems to be a small amount of room between the airport and RS.

 

[AccfSally]

Yes, mines is close and I'm right now trying to make it look nice.
I might have to move my buildings again.

 

[Xara]

mine is! it’s not super close but it’s still in the same area. i have a sign outside of the airport, two fountains and bush fencing around my rs - my entrance isn’t anything grand but i like it so far lol

 

[Aliya]

Mine's pretty close too (however I reset mine recently to get the Resident Services and Airport Dock lined up), but there was enough space to put a fountain with a pattern around it. I would have liked it to be a bit further back, but this map had everything else I wanted so I was willing to compromise. I'm likely going to change it sometime in the future if I get inspired to do something different.

 

[Lavamaize]

Wow that is close. Mine is about double the distance.

 

[Lazaros]

my airport has around the same distance to my res. services as yours - and is also off center. i managed with the parts so far, but considering i want to change a few things, i'll have to figure out what to do bc it's really just ... so close. i can't even terraform much at the airport 'cause i'd like to keep my villagers on that part and oof. not keen on starting over, and even though i was aware of it, i just *really* wish we could move res. services.

 

[Soigne]

mine's pretty close, too. and it's one square to the right of my airport, which makes things infuriatingly difficult.

 

[Foxtrot422]

Mine is so close to the airport it took me several hours to design it to what i liked

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I actually just made a straight path across and added some trees and benches. plus a little craft station to the left! I lined the sides of my entrance with flowers and I'm happy with it! I have pictures for reference because I'm bad at describing things. Don't mind Antonio is the second picture!

 

[Luxen]

Mine's pretty close as well, which means that I can't do some of the neat fenced pathway entrances (either with a small plaza or some other sort of stop area on the way/between splitting pathways) because of it. I just put a tiny waterfall and Nook's Cranny along the way; I still don't know what to do with the rest of the surrounding area though.

 

[kirbbys]

My friend's island is like this, they have an 'We're open' sign in front of the airport, and past that is a 'rest area' with vending machines and a bench! They have some trees lining the way as well, I love it.

 

[Tasuot]

Yes mine is close, I only now just realized what am I supposed to do to connect the Airport to Resident Services

I'm loving this discussion though, it's giving me ideas! I was thinking of just making stepping steps leading up to RS from the Airport. That, or following what the user above me has done, and making a straight path across and working around the Airport.

 

[hzl]

yea mines like right in front but about ten/eleven spaces back
at the moment I have two flower patches on either side of a pathway from the airport to the plaza and bordered it with fences and dotted a couple of streetlamps along it.

I'm basically using the resident services as my generic plaza area and have 2 paths leading off left and right to the rest of my town

 

[Celinalia]

same and it low-key annoys me now oof

 

[dizzy bone]

My town hall is right in front of the airport. I originally searched for a map with this layout but later came to hate it after finding it super difficult to landscape, mainly because of how the town hall plot size and door are not centred to the airport docks :' ( Anyways, I finally found a way around it that I'm happy with. My main issue with town hall's exterior was that it didn't fit the more asian-feel I was going for (pls bring back zen exterior remodels ). The left side of the map is a very zen old-town feel while the right side is a newer feel. So what I did was I literally slapped two giant cliffs in front of the town hall to partially cover it from view. The road forces you to go either left or right of the cliff, making the separation of those two areas more apparent.

This is what my map looks like with the two cliffs in front.

This is what the cliff landscaping looks like. Both cliffs are basically mirrors of each other.

Edit/ Here's a view of both of the cliffs together with the road straight to town hall

 

[kyrynbunni]

My Resident Services is very close to my airport as well. It took a while of deciding how I wanted it to look but this is how I've decorated it for right now:


I've been going with a fairytale kind of theme for my island, and you can see resident services to the left side just above the hedges. It's added a lot of atmosphere and I really like it. :3 Still a work in progress as I'm planning to add more.