How to keep your city growing?

[Xterminator]

Hey guys,

So this may be a really dumb question, but I'm still somewhat new to the game so I haven't quite figured out how everything works yet. The question is pretty straight forward...
How and what is the best way to keep a city growing population wise, while still maintaining the balance of everything if that makes sense? I have noticed in some streams (like Quill18's) and in my own game that there seems to be points where the city
stops growing randomly (or seems random to me), and I'm really curious how people get these like 100k+ cities.
In my game, it is pretty fresh, only at like 4k people, but it is hardly growing and people keep randomly leaving, and then some new ones come in, but the general population number has stayed around the same for quite a long time, even though I have
expanded etc... I have checked all the services, and water/sewage/electricity to make sure everything is covered and it so, so I'm really stumped as to why people would be leaving the city this early into the game?

Anyway, any tips and helpful info would be appreciated, cause I really don't have the faintest idea to keep my city growing steadily. Haha

 

[Periy]

I have around 130.000 citizens in my city. What i've done is simply always expanded. Alwas building new neighbourhoods and zoning residential even if i don't really have a demand. I also make sure that my services (police, hospital, school, etc.) is covering everything. I also have alot of parks and special buildings! Just keep expanding and it should do it. Also make sure to get busses and metro to cover most of your city and to have a few train stations and a airport (as they unlock).

Hopes this helps a bit. I'm sure that others have more tacts to share!

 

[Reichl22]

I also make sure that my services (police, hospital, school, etc.) is covering everything. I also have alot of parks and special buildings!

By this logic, you have residental zones in entire city only high levels (in other words - well educated rich people). Or do you manage somehow to maintain low level residential district?

 

[s0cks]

By this logic, you have residental zones in entire city only high levels (in other words - well educated rich people). Or do you manage somehow to maintain low level residential district?

You can get away with having educated districts so long as you have enough residents overall. I've found that even in the most educated districts there is still at least a few uneducated living in each high rise.

 

[Reichl22]

You can get away with having educated districts so long as you have enough residents overall. I've found that even in the most educated districts there is still at least a few uneducated living in each high rise.

I am not that much care about education level. Im driving crazy that residental zones keeps leveling up (if you provide them basic services), so they are ended up like big villas. And, also, cims really dont care if they have or dont have jobs. They still leveling up and even pay taxes:/

 

[Crunchynut007]

try and build residential away from high noise or pollution areas. It helps keep them happy and growing .

Education has a large impact as to how well a suburb grows. Make sure you have good elementary school coverage to begin with. Also, instead of building more schools if current schools cover an area but have insufficient capacity, go to your budget screen and increase the education budget to increase capacity without needing to build overlapping schools.

Hope it helps!

 

[Reichl22]

try and build residential away from high noise or pollution areas. It helps keep them happy and growing .

Education has a large impact as to how well a suburb grows. Make sure you have good elementary school coverage to begin with. Also, instead of building more schools if current schools cover an area but have insufficient capacity, go to your budget screen and increase the education budget to increase capacity without needing to build overlapping schools.

Hope it helps!

Ehh, I dont think so we need help to leveling residental zone. We (or I at least) need quite opposite - stop leveling.

 

[s0cks]

Yeah, it's a bit broken in my opinion. I'm just stating that it doesn't really matter too much of they do level up because so long as you have enough residents you'll have enough employees for uneducated jobs. I do much prefer the SimCity system where they tie land value to wealth, and education to happiness. In Skylines education is tied to wealth, which kind of makes sense but just doesn't work as well in a game of this type.