Her house is... certainly a house. It's one story, with a small porch leading into a squareish living room which contains a single beige two-person sofa in front of a CRT TV small enough it's resting on top of something that might generously be called a center table, a small item of furniture that might generously be called a two-person dinner table with two wooden chairs, and something that might be generously be called a bookshelf. There's a small semi-open plan kitchen with a boring white fridge and oven framed by boring grey counters on the blandest possible white tile floor. To one side of it is a bathroom with an ugly boxy shower and to the other is a bedroom with a double bed and a small drawers-only wardrobe (and yes that means that to get to the bathroom from the bedroom you need to walk into the living room around the kitchen).

On the bright side everything is brand new.

.... hm.

Her new home is kind of depressing? And already furnished. With terrible, boxy furniture that is completely devoid of personality or style. And the layout is a bit, er. Strange? It's strange. There's a little hallway of sadness leading to the bathroom and nothing else, the kitchen being a nook sort of situation is fine but it's kind of - strangely situated in comparison to the rest of the layout? She's really quite confused about why the sanctity of the outside being a featureless white box was more important than making the bathroom easy to get to from the bedroom. Or just putting the door to the bathroom in the bedroom, which would be very simple and leave the outside footprint intact. Sure, it's awkward for guests, but it's less awkward than waking up in the middle of the night and needing to take the scenic route in the dark just to pee, and anyway she's living in an almost literal shoebox, why would she want to have a ton of guests over?

Why did she buy this house again? Can she sell it and get a better one. She kind of hates it, immediately and intensely, and sincerely has no idea what even got her to buy the place.

If she wishes to Move Out, she can do that through her phone, and she could Keep Her Furniture or Sell It as she may see fit.

....

What, just like that? She can just... For some reason she thought home ownership was a complicated process and a major investment, can she really just? Move out?? To another location??? A house that doesn't elicit immediate hatred and disgust??

She'll be selling all her furniture, thank you, she hates everything here.

Sure! How is she planning to do that?

Well, since everything is brand new, she should just be able to return most of it to where she... got... it...? Right?

..... hm.

Where did she get all of this (terrible) furniture, anyway? Was it, er, a garage sale or something?

Her memories inform her that when she Moved In it was possible for the house to have been purchased either Unfurnished or Furnished and it was purchased Furnished.

......... okay. So the terrible furniture came with the terrible house. That at least makes... some sense...? Does that mean when (if) she Moves Out she can just leave it? That sounds like she can just leave it.

She investigates her phone for the Move Out process.

The process involves deciding to Move Out, either Keeping The Furniture as she does or Selling It With The House, and then, optionally, moving into a new house or apartment.

She... picks Selling It With The House, with more than a little bemusement at how that's an option? Maybe this is a weird neighborhood thing, like how with some places, people take the whole kitchen with them when they move out? And then. Yes, yes she would like to move into a new, uh, house or apartment? That seems kind of important to the moving out process, actually, why is that part optional?

Also, what are her home and or apartment buying options here, she will happily downgrade to a smaller space if it means that it's less.... whatever... this thing was. She will not be completing the Move Out process until she knows for sure she has a better place lined up, because that's just practical.

Well there sure are some places she could move to! There are some entirely empty lots for sale in Willow Creek, as well as the house across the street from hers and the one at the end of the street. That latter one looks at a glance identical to the one she's in? But a little bit cheaper, maybe because the lot it's in is smaller so she has less freedom in it? Oh also she gets a nice view of the house that is literally next to hers, which could well be described as a mansion in comparison, with a nice and large pool. That one's not for sale, though.

If she's willing to venture farther there are a few more options of houses in Oasis Springs (which is kind of a desert?), Newcrest has some apartments, and there's Magnolia Promenade and Windenburg and San Myshuno and Forgotten Hollow and so on so forth, as well as various empty lots in all of those.

Ohhhhh, so this is a carbon copy built neighborhood, probably by some kind of large, soulless company out to make a fast simoleon, making terrible but efficient house copies as fast and as cheaply as possible. That makes so much sense, and explains so much. She hopes, vaguely, that those empty lots that are for sale mean that the company that built these travesties went out of business.

Anyway. Can she go visit the house that is not a box of sadness? Maybe see a layout plan of it or something?

The mansion that's next to her current place? There's people living there.

No, no, the other not-a-box-of-sadness, the one across the street from her. It might also contain sadness, but it's at least not a perfect rectangle about it, so she lives in some hope.

Ohhhhhh that one! Yeah she can walk across the street and look in through the windows.

Okay, then she's going to do that. It must not be open house at this time or something, because she'd expect to get to walk around inside and investigate the faucets and lights and whatnot? She could wait or call a real estate agent or something, but peeking in through the windows like a creep can probably get her enough information on whether this house meets the incredibly low bar of being better than the one she currently owns.

Its layout is different! The kitchen is its own room rather than a kind of sectioned-off cubicle, the bedroom's floor is carpeted rather than wood, the tiny table under the exact same TV as the one she owns has a good claim on the title of "bedside table", the dining table is long enough it could probably dine six people (but there are only two chairs), and the bathroom is smaller. Oh also the kitchen and bathroom tiles (which match) are a more interesting white-and-beige interweaved pattern, and the oven and fridge are beige-brown, too.

The incredibly low bar! It has been reached!

... It has not, however, been reached with enough competence and breathing room that she is willing to literally move right now. The bedroom is like, right next to the front door. She would like space between her and the front door, actually, what if there's a burglar or something? What about that other box, does it actually contain more than sadness, despite its outside appearance?

The living/dining room is now a living/dining room/kitchen combo (seagreen stove and fridge) and there are four dining chairs as opposed to two but the dining table is just as small as hers. The combo plus the fact that it is slightly longer means that it has room for a second bedroom (this one with a single bed), and the main bedroom is bigger than hers (but no less empty), and the tiles in the bathroom are the most interesting of the lot, white square tiles framing sky blue diamond tiles. Oh but there isn't an actual door into the main bedroom, there's just a hallway leading directly into it (unlike the smaller bedroom, which does have its own door).

...

Okay, so obviously there is some room for improvement, like adding a door to the bedroom, but: yep this is the best of the lot. And somehow several thousand?? simoleons?? cheaper than the one she bought??? Even though it has a whole extra bedroom? So it is somehow a smart financial decision to sell her house and find a new one? She - suspects the process will be made easier by how this neighborhood has clearly been taken over by some kind of real estate conglomerate, since there are so many empty (sad, soulless) houses, and empty lots, all right in a row. She notes to spend some time house hunting later, when she has an actual income.

She suspects that she's going to lose literally all of the money difference by housing fees or something? But yeah no she will take the other rectangle to live in, it is filled with less sadness than it appears on the outside. At least it has as many as several colors in it. And also that bay window is winning her over. So: yeah okay, she'll Move Out and then Into this house right here.

Cool!

She has now Moved. This house is now hers. If she looks at her bank account she didn't actually lose the money difference, and the move itself only cost §500.

What, just. Just like that? This house is just hers? She can just. Go on in??? That just works?

Yup!

.... okay????

She - doesn't have any stuff to move over, and she bought this place furnished, and apparently sold all of the other furniture in her... other house... with that house, so. It. Is in fact just that easy. Possibly this is why she moved to this neighborhood in particular? How the ominous real estate conglomerate will just let you swap houses without any kind of fuss??? It's a little freaky and she's a little freaked out? Glad to be in a slightly less shitty house, though?????

This is all very weird and strange, and she's going to attempt to solve this with job hunting. No, the logic doesn't follow, but she's doing it anyway, because she expects it'll make her feel more secure and grounded after... the weird real estate market here. She has a - no, she doesn't have a mortgage, actually, why was she expecting to have one of those? She just owns this house now. Still, there will be bills to pay, so: job hunting.

Job hunting! What kind of job is she looking for?