The Sims 3 question?

When I live out/play a Sims family, it gets saved to one place. Then I switch over to another family and since it's saved in a different place on the game, they can't interact. Any way that I can get multiple families that I can play at different times in one neighborhood?

Hi Kai,
Google is your friend! (I'd ask my daughter but she isn't home at present!)
see
http://au.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/thesims3/showmsgs.php?topicid=m-1-49897257&pid=936498 and
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090726193658AAON41Q and http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090605125943AAP9mTP
Cheers
Rod

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