You decay only when your sim is on a actual property in game. The decay is not too fast, max 1 skill and try to keep the other around 18-20 if you can. There is a reason for de-cay.
There will always be lots that dominate the game.. Service lots are meant to be a short-stay (green your sim after whatever you are doing) type of place. If you want people at your house all day, better open a $ or a skill lot. I don't see the need to remove greening from those 2 categories to...
I figured it out. I manually resized my window like the guide said. So I had, " f 1600x900 after the target path - I put it back to default and now my client works!. They made the game re-sizable, so that is what is giving the error.
It's def not impossible, but for people that have to work a lot in RL, or attend school full time, it will be much harder.
It takes a lot of stamina and the ability to grind it out.
Yeah, I have fast internet and a pretty good laptop, and some of the top lots make me lag like crazy! I can't visit them, but oh well. Just glad to play the game! :)