Is it better to time-travel to your "last played" date or deal with lost villagers?

[Rose]

Is it better to time-travel to your "last played" date or deal with lost villagers?

I'm going to sign in on my main Animal Crossing: New Leaf file, but it's been about 5-8 months since I last played. Having the clock be different from the current day would really irritate me, but I've got a town full of dream villagers. It'd still take forever to slowly TT to current time.

What should I do? Does anyone know how many villagers can move out over one span of absence?
Edit: I'm asking for opinions here. What would/did you do and why?

 

[Classygirl]

I have multi towns and sometimes that means one is played on more than others for a while especially when building this last new town before my second ds, I always mark the dates and times of each last played...I would say to go back to that or you may really regret it.

 

[Noctis]

When I don't play I write down the date when I lasted played and continue from there. It used to bother me having a different date and not being the same in real life but I got used to it. You can either go back to the original date you lasted played and wait until a villager pings you about moving, make them stay and you can TT forward as far as you want as what it seems to be what a lot of users say here.

If you load the game now and there will be a few good villagers that probably left.

 

[steen]

I believe if someone pings you to move and you say no, you can then TT forward any amount of time (from that date) with no consequences. So if you TT back you wouldn't have to actually TT through 5-8 months to get back to the actual date. might want to google around for confirmation though, as I've never actually tried this.


(edit: ^^ what cuddle said)