Industry/Commercial paradox

[Chippinator]

So, we have lots of industry going out of business because there are not enough people to sell their goods to. Now, we also have commercial buildings going out of business because there are not enough goods, creating tons of abandoned buildings yet they still want more industrial. My traffic system has no bumper to bumper jams, so that isn't the problem. Is this a bug?

 

[Chippinator]

oh dear god

 

[AngelOfPassion]

Ummm it just looks like they don't have enough workers... which caused the commercial demand to drop becuase industrial went out of business.

 

[Chippinator]

There's no demand for working, and when i get more cims, they ask for more commercial and industry :I

 

[nickn5]

When I put a bus route round industry from nearby houses it seems to solve the no workers problem, usually.

 

[Chippinator]

When I put a bus route round industry from nearby houses it seems to solve the no workers problem, usually.

thats not the problem ):

 

[zyphial]

Don't trust the RCI, and remember education is bad. With a city of 25,000 I have one elementary school and one highschool and education fluctuates between a healthy (40,35,15,0) to an unhealthy (25,50,25,0) or worse. Whenever you have a shortage of workers, build more residential. This does two things:

1) Helps fight recessions. See the thread on the front page for more info, but basically the game has a 6-year cycle where people turn into Seniors pretty much all at once and stop working. They clog up all the housing and make employees impossible to find. Building houses lets young immigrants arrive until the hearses can go Logan's Run on your deadbeat senior problem.
2) Raises unemployment by increasing the population. Unemployment is good. Anything below 5% and it will be hard to keep workers in factories.

This, at least, has been my experience.