Cities And Housing Archive

ok, so I was hoping to move my house to a hill within my citys limits for a better view. I know when you pack up a house you stop being a resident of the town your in, so I was wondering, if I delcare my residence in another house in the same city, will it change my citizen status (currently I'm militia)?

If not Can I use a house as a temporary residence while I move my main house?

edit: corrected spelling and rephrased

Message Edited by Melak on 09-20-2005 05:32 PM

Every time I have ever moved my residence it changed my militia status. I had to re-declare residence and be re-instated in the militia. This happened if I didnt re-deed my declared one, but just swapped one 'residence'house for another in the same city, but I havent tried it since house pack-up. I would imagine it undeclares you as citizen though, since the lots within that city are now 'free'. If I were you I wouldn't pack the house until the Mayor was around to re-instate your Militia status.

This is a good question, I'd be interested to know also.

When someone changes their residence, the Mayor generally receives two e-mails: the first of a "Lost Citizen!" and then followed by a citizen gained e-mail. Basically what the system does when you change your residence is removes you from your previous residence (which would cause you to lose citizenship) before it places it on the new residence (which brings you back into the city). This generally happens within a minute of each other.

You would need to be added to the militia again after changing your residence since militia status is lost when you are removed from the city temporarily.

thank you both very much for sheding some light on my question.