Villager Move In Help!

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So I had 9 villagers and had Apple move out and I moved her over to my other town. I didn't want to risk a random move in ruining something so I went and had Coco move into my town on the same day. My entire town was covered with paths except for where I want Coco to be and where Apple's house was. I figured it wouldn't take long to do the villager reset trick until Coco was in the spot I wanted. Or that maybe I would be lucky and she wouldn't move in the next day because of the fireworks festival. It took an extra day for Apple to move into my other town. But I wasn't lucky.

It's been 2 days and over 100 resets and she won't move anywhere but Apple's old spot. I went back to the day she moved out and erased some paths to see if she would move somewhere else and she did, so I didn't screw up and lock in the move in spot. So is there some kind of thing where villagers won't move to a spot if some other one is considered 'better'? Do they have an extreme preference for old house locations? I know for a fact that where I want Coco is a viable spot with no pwp's or rocks nearby. So what gives? Has this happened to anyone else? Should I just settle on the sub-par placement? Have I wasted hours of my life? Please help.
 
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I feel that way sometimes. It seemed really hard to move villagers right near my train station when I had to.

If you were able to go back to the previous day, maybe cover Apple's old spot up if you haven't already? Unless Apple is still there when you go backwards.
 
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Oh I totally understand you!! I've had this problem before and when I went back in time the old house was still there.

I am really sorry!

:(
 
Sometimes it's just really bad luck. I had the exact same thing happen with a 10th villager before. They can be so, sooooo stubborn. You just have to keep trying for that one chance when they'll move into the correct space, or at least a less terrible one.
 
They do seem to have a strong preference for the previous spot, though I've always been able to get them to move.
 
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