Ha, that's funny. My cousin told me about how to make a lot of money in Sims -- you convince some other Sim to marry you, and once household assets are combined, you build a swimming pool, put in the ladder, then let the unsuspecting Sim spouse take a dip. Then you remove the ladder, and the Sims can't figure out how to exit a pool without it. So he or she drowns, and you get their money, and a fancy tombstone at which you can "grieve". Yeah, it's gross, I agree. But so is building ghettoes, as you said. The truly gross thing about Sim City is that it's all run on the same political principles (low taxes will goose industry which will bring about prosperity) as the Republicans' mantra.