[brian51]

Pierre, thanks very much for your post !!

I have a lot of experience with Abandonment  , ( even in my current city)..
Although I agree this is a  very large area to have to happen. And so of course it would be rare when this many buildings go empty..


One thing I am quite sure about in my situations, .. is the larger the city gets, the more this becomes an issue for me . This is also why I commonly have big swings in population values in a cyclical type fashion. It is not that unusual at all for me to have this.

I used to think it had something to do with the traffic sim struggling to handle so many residences in a larger city. ( and maybe this would also dependent on other factors like your pc specs for example.) But I could never get Steve (z) to agree with this theory

I can post more about this issue, but i think its better to wait for questions or your next reply here..