Many of the places you check into to land a career also offer special events or classes. The areas around these facilities are interesting to explore, too, because you can run into new Sims and interact with them as well as find cool objects to collect such as seeds and butterflies. (More on that in a little bit.)
In fact, with careers being such an important part of many Sims’ lives, there’s no better place to start the grand tour of Sunset Valley.
Llama Memorial Stadium
Interactions
Join Professional Sports Career
Attend Athletic Class (§400)
Attend Game (§60)
Attend Concert
Rah-rah-rah! Go team! The Llama Memorial Stadium is home to Sunset Valley’s pro teams and a mecca for sporting fans.
It’s also an excellent place to go if you want to get in better shape, because this is the only place in Sunset Valley that offers a basic fitness class.
Once the Athletic skill is acquired here, it can be developed and maintained both at home with exercise equipment or at the 28 Hour Wellness Gym.
The Llama Memorial Stadium is also a great place to let off a little steam while watching a game or attending a concert. If you spot your Sims getting a little stressed or strained, pile into the family truckster and head up to the stadium for a little entertainment.
Fort Gnome Military Base
Interactions
Join Military Career
Attend Handiness Class (§400)
Tour Base
Report for duty at Fort Gnome, the Sunset Valley military base. The main reason for visiting the base is to join the ranks of Sunset Valley’s bravest, but any Sim tired of paying repair technicians to fix appliances that constantly go kaput should also enroll in the Handiness class.
For a paltry §400, your Sims will get started in the fine art of tinkering, which can be a real money-saver once the skill has been developed. The military base is more than happy to accept visitors, too. Just sign up for a tour to see Fort Gnome up close.
Well, not too close. Parochial security prevents personnel from showing citizens everything on the grounds. Wait, what’s in that strange hangar out back? Move along... nothing to see here.
Police Department
Interactions
Join Law Enforcement Career
The Police Department isn’t much of a tourist-friendly place. In fact, the only thing to do at this location is join the Law Enforcement career track and then report back if you indeed accept the badge.
However, should you become a law officer in Sunset Valley, there are a couple exciting interactions you can do with another location in town...such as that creepy old warehouse surrounded by trees.
The yard behind the warehouse is home to a number of bugs and harvestable plants. surrounded by trees. It looks like a front for unsavory activities.
Little Corsican Bistro
Interactions
Join Culinary Career
Attend Cooking Class (§400)
Eat Here (prices vary)
Get Drinks (prices vary)
Eat Outside (prices vary)
The Little Corsican Bistro is one of two eateries in Sunset Valley where Culinary careers can be launched. If your Sim has the gift of cooking, then this is a great place to make a living.
But even if you don’t saunter through the front doors with a Natural Cook trait to your resume, the cooking classes here are sure to help develop this skill.
Hogan’s Deep-Fried Diner
Interactions
Join Culinary Career
Become a Partner (§6,000)
Attend Cooking Class (§400)
Eat Here (prices vary)
Get Drinks (prices vary)
Hogan’s Deep-Fried Diner is another place to build a career or take a cooking class. It’s a bit less heady than the bistro, but the cooking classes here are by no means inferior. Either one will get novice cooks started on a lengthy (and satisfying) skill development process.
You can also take friends and dates to the diner. If you’re just starting out or are a bit short, the diner is a great destination because it’s much more affordable than the bistro. Of course, the difference in food quality will not provide as substantial a moodlet.
But still, it’s a fun place to eat and worth stopping into from time to time, even if your cooking skill is well developed and you can make extraordinary dishes at home.
Wilsonoff Community Theater
Interactions
Join Music Career
Attend Guitar Class (§400)
Tour Theater
See Movie (§40)
The Community Theater is the destination for Sims with a penchant for music. Whether it is to launch a Music career that will eventually take you to super-stardom (maybe you can throw a concert at that stadium?) or just a place to start noodling around on the five-string, the theater is definitely one of the first places musicians should stop at in Sunset Valley.
The theater also doubles as a movie house. Here, you can take in a flick and enjoy a great entertainment boost that lasts for hours. This is a relatively inexpensive way to get a mood boost. You can also tour the theater to blow off a little steam. However, if your Sims have no artsy genes, the tour will only leave them bored.
Sacred Spleen Memorial Hospital
Interactions
Join Medical Career
The Sacred Spleen Memorial Hospital is where Sims who desire Medical careers go to ply their trade. This is not a place to tour and play, as there are no other options for citizen Sims at the hospital.
Occasionally though, there will be opportunities that take Sims to Sacred Spleen. But for the most part, few Sims will darken this place’s doorstep, which is actually a fairly positive thing if you think about it.
Doo Peas Corporate Towers
Interactions
Join Business Career
Join Journalism Career
Attend Writing Class (§400)
The Doo Peas Corporate Towers are where two careers can be launched: Business and Journalism. While it seems like those two careers might be at odds with each, today’s multinational communication megacorporations have fused these two professions closer than ever. Whether you want to be a boardroom titan or a star news anchor one day, step through the lobby doors at some point to start a fresh career.
This is also where Sims go to take writing classes that advance understanding of the useful skill. If your Sim has designs on being a famous author, taking a writing class is a great way to get a handle on the ins-and-outs of Simlish before going to home to refine the art. Once the skill has been partially developed, you’re ready to start writing your first novel.
City Hall
Interactions
Join Political Career
Attend Charisma Class (§400)
Tour City Hall
It’s not surprising that the place politicians come to be heard to is the same place that teaches a course on charisma, the most valuable commodity in politics.
Here, Sims can learn the finer nuances of smooth talk, which unlocks new socials capable of improving relationship-building, including the extremely useful Smooth Recovery social for conversations that are of the edge of being deep sixed by a faux pas.
Sims can also tour City Hall, which is interesting to Sims who have shown an aptitude for charisma or politics. Watch those bubbles in conversations so you know when you’re dealing with somebody who fancies this sort of thing.
Outstanding Citizen Warehouse Corp.
Interactions
Join Criminal Career
Raid Warehouse (Special Agents only)
There is nothing suspicious about this warehouse. It’s only tucked in the midst of a copse of trees, and slivers of light can be seen between its boarded-up windows at night. And a name like Outstanding Citizen Warehouse? That’s just good advertising! (Actually, it’s not.
The crime boss in charge of working the criminal element of Sunset Valley just has a dry sense of humor and an appreciation for forced irony.) Sims who want to work the shadier side of the street apply here for their marching orders.
Landgraab Industries Science Facility
Interactions
Join Science Career
Attend Gardening Class (§400)
Attend Logic Class (§400)
Tour Science Lab
Donate Insects to Science
High on the hills overlooking Sunset Valley, scientists spend day and night toiling over the building blocks of the universe, hoping to unlocks the secrets that fill the gaps between that which is known and that which we cannot answer.
Or it’s just a bunch of goofballs turning screwdrivers in things to look busy while planning their costumes for the next con. Either way, Sims with a set of brains should head up to the gleaming dome on the hill to enroll in the Science career.
As for Sims with a green thumb, well, head up that same hill, too. This is where you take the gardening class that acquaints you with the basics of planting and growing seeds into harvestables.
Sims who want to expand their horizons should check out the logic class, which starts another skill track that can lead to chess victories and celestial spotting via the telescope. Sims can also tour the science lab, but unless they already have at least a slight interest in the sciences, they may be bored by the excursion.
Finally, if Sims have started collecting insects around Sunset Valley, they can bring them up to the Landgraab Industries Science Facility to donate them to science. And by donate, we mean collect a nice little purse of Simoleons for turning in some rare bugs.