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> This meant you couldn't follow a sim's car from home to work and back

Note that in SimCity 2013 you still can't really do this. A sim finds a new job every day and finds a new home at the end of the day. Really.

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IIRC SC4 with expansion packs actually allowed you to run a much better microsimulation of a small handful of individual Sims whose movements and "thoughts" could be tracked in parallel to a macrosimulation that produced a more realistic simulation of commute patterns between buildings.

I believe I read that the sims find the nearest place that has a job available and the nearest house at the end of the day.

That's correct, but it's not carried over from day to day. Every morning a new job, every evening a new house.

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