Villager Reset Trick - do villagers prefer areas without trees?

[Sheba]

I am seriously baffled by now.

I'm currently trying to get Pekoe to move into a semi-decent spot. Since hours. And I have no idea what's up with her - she constantly moves in one of two places which aren't even that huge and where I don't want her. The thing is that the whole right side of my map only has my flowers and the left side (where I want her) my trees, yet she keeps putting her house down in the place where my last villager's house was (I needed him out to put a path there) or under the train station.

I had noticed it before when Bunnie moved into the exact same spot where Kabuki had been on the first try, which I was good with, and getting Flurry near the beach was hellish as well. Do villagers prefer spaces without trees? I always thought they just knocked them down without caring. It's been six hours now and I can forget about turnips because of Pekoe, lol. I'm just confused by now because nine of ten times she picks the same spots despite having 75% of the map available.

 

[ceribells]

In my experience, they usually pick the emptier areas (which doesn't mean they won't take out hybrids and paths). I don't often see them moving in over trees, but I usually clear out a few potential spots before I do the plot reset trick. Maybe you should cut down a few trees before you place her?

That's anecdotal evidence though...

 

[Sheba]

So it's just not me. That's good to know! I finally got Pekoe into an acceptable spot (right after I complained here, lol, she listened) and now she's not completely messing up everything anymore, so yay for that! I'll remember to make space for the next dreamie I'm placing! Thanks so much!

 

[Ceres]

Yeah usually I've found they'll like to land in the few spaces that don't have trees the most. However that said I had someone accidentally move in and they wiped out a whole line of bushes and trees to do so.

 

[jolokia]

My town has HUGE empty areas and Gayle just managed to land in the middle of my designated fruit area (cramped into a tiny corner behind the river JUST so this wouldn't happen) flawlessly wiping out two peach trees and a pattern stump, so I'm gonna say no they do not