How do you arrange your villager's houses?

[cornimer]

I spread them out. They're scattered around the island wherever it looked natural/there was room for a house the only one that has a really specific placement is Tad's house. It's up on the top cliff near mine

 

[LuchaSloth]

Mine were all spread out to begin with. But I've been consolidating them into one small area. Now I have most of them jammed into one corner of my island, with only a few spaces in between. The remaining couple I might leave where they are, as they don't really bother me.

 

[stiney]

Mine are in a little neighborhood, but they're not all neatly lined up. (The empty plot is going to be Carmen--she was in my campsite yesterday and rather than kick one of the THREE JOCKS in my town, she chose to kick poor little Filbert.) I like how it looks, and that everyone kind of hangs around "town" for the most part (easy to find, feels more neighborly, I get to witness Axel trying to out-tongue-twist Snooty and hold his breath longer than Muffy etc) but I don't really have space to give them the yards I wanted to, so it's a trade off. I am debating moving the river north to get more space down there but I dunno. We'll see.

I'm northeast of the downtown area where the museum, resident services, Nook's Cranny, and the Able Sisters are (I also built an outdoor market below the shopping section to make it more outdoorsy though that's still in progress). I've got a playground in front of the campsite and I'm going to build an open park area on the lower center island. The upper center island is my creepy, no one may access it area and I'll probably keep the upper left clifftop inaccessible to villagers as well.

 

[Moon Cake]

How much space is in between the houses?

Three spaces!

 

[meggiewes]

I like the idea of having my house in one of the little neighbourhoods too, rather than out on my own. ☺ Maybe that way I could do three neighbourhoods with 3, 3 and 5 houses.

Yeah! I lived apart in NL and never really felt like part of the "community" like I do in this game so far. It's a nice feeling.

 

[ChocolateShiba]

This is mine, I worked a couple of days on it and now I'm not sure if I like it, but my island still needs to be decorated so maybe that'll change. I was trying to give everyone their own yard and give it a rural Japanese farm town vibe?

The lower portion of the island by the airport and such is more like an urban district, where as the second level is a mix between urban and rural and the third level is rural (which the exception of the two houses near the campsite).

 

[Zura]

Ok so I have around 3 different spots as of now.

City neighborhood 3x villagers
Desert castle 2x Villagers
Desert prison 5x Villagers

Ik it sounds weird that there's a city and a dessert but trust me, it's pretty cool haha although neither are closed to finished

 

[Ace Marvel]

Sorry for the bad quality of the picture, but I made a multi layered neighborhood of 3 levels.

 

[birdsquad]

I like to spread mine out over my whole map because I generally landscape around villagers houses first and then kind of play connect the dots with putting the rest of my island together. I find having a big empty stretch of land intimidates me too much so I'm taking it slow and building around villagers themes.

For example I moved o'hare by the beach and made his area really tropical, but I made a little high steppe mountain range around avery's place.

 

[Dewasa]

I definitely like the neighborhood aspect. I have not unlock terraforming yet and my villagers are all clumped up, which is also annoying since houses that I built in front of another is blocking the full view of the house. At least I know that once I can start moving them around, I want to keep a neighborhood aspect but with breathing room. Breathing room by either spacing houses in front of one another or simply a tiered side by side (with spacious side yards).

 

[ChocolateShiba]

Sorry for the bad quality of the picture, but I made a multi layered neighborhood of 3 levels.

That's actually really cute

 

[SheepMareep]

I didn't like the idea of having them in a straight line but wanted a neighborhood since i never managed to finish mine in NL (too much plot resetting uggg)
So I did them in a kind of circle-y shape?

 

[Bugs]

cute ! i think the nh neighborhoods are really sweet. so many people have wanted that for so long in this series.

i have mine situated around the map in different biomes (beach front, mountain valley, grasslands, etc) in sets of two - with a joining plaza for each :")) it satisfies both my need for variety and my need for order

This is what I've done too, separated them into little "counties" with different themes some of them are isolated too

 

[Mosshead]

Mine is spread out since I like to give the villagers I favor a bigger yard +cliffside houses so I can go ham on beautifying the outside of their homes lol which leads to some villagers living around the main area and the rest scattered about depending on how much I like them. It's hard not to play favoritism.

 

[Fizzii]

A range! I have 5 in a neighbourhood setting on one side of my island, and on the other side, 2 farm themed ones vertically to the left of resident services, then to the right i have 1 sat in the cliffs kinda sunken in, and then the other two are at the bottom and themed as beach houses

 

[Kurashiki]

i like having them all in one place, they're arranged like this

-----X---X
X---X---X---X
X---X---X---X

 

[lunatepic]

I'll probably spread mine out a bit more, going for a super pastoral feel! But i also like seeing all the cute neat streets and neighborhoods in other people's towns too

 

[Shyria]

I have neighborhoods too!
At first, and when I played WW, I just put them apart from each other so I'd have villager houses all over the map, but I actually love the idea of neighborhoods. It makes for little clusters of villagers all over my town (although it's all on the east side) and cute residential areas.
I have the seaside area, downtown one, and countryside area.

Spoiler: Here's my current map:

Although I'm currently reworking the northern one so my villagers can have nice gardens.

 

[Aleigh]

I personally have always preferred spreading them out across my towns. It feels more natural and less claustrophobic to me

 

[MyLifeIsCake]

My houses are more speread out reminiscent of Wild World or City Folk... but I have each one with a little garden. I'd also like to place the villagers where I'd think they'd like to be (O'Hare and Marina were on the beach, Apollo on the second tier, ect.)