Each world has outer boundaries beyond which Sims cannot travel, and Sims cannot visit other worlds (except 'sub-worlds') without NRaas Traveler, a mod which enables this functionality. Major buildings and landmarks in each world, including locations where adults can work and where children and teens can attend school, are represented by rabbit holes, which can be interacted with but cannot be looked into by players.

Worlds are open for Sims to explore, and Sims can be controlled even when not on a lot. Didn't realize Adventures worked similar.The Sims 3 introduced the concept of an expanded 'open world.' Especially early in the development of the game, these were called towns, as they were much larger and more complex than the neighborhoods of the previous games. That's what I enjoyed about the Future, but that was based on time, so I understood the time freeze at home. The more quests you do, the higher your visa level and the longer you can stay next time. If you want to get access to longer vacations, then complete some quests in the town you are travelling to. If you go on vacation with your spouse and you have a young child, the game will give you a babysitter, or you can hire one yourself before you leave. When you travel, everything back home is frozen in time, and will be exactly as it was when you left. You are never too new at your career to travel.

Originally posted by Sanfranman491:How can I travel if it's 3 days minimum and I'm too new at my workplace to have vacation time? Or.how am I to enroll to the university if I have my career? Or, if I were to adopt a cat or dog? I don't seems like the 2 expansions I chose are difficult to use with a new job or a new baby. Just be aware that there is no hospital in Uni or in the WA vacation worlds. If you want to travel with your pregnant Sim, you'll need to install mods (like Traveler from NRaas) and remove that restriction. Pregnant Sims cannot travel (making trying to travel or enroll in Uni a quick-and-dirty pregnancy test). If you're seeing a university icon on your home neighborhood, you're using a custom map, but yes, you need to enroll. Your home neighborhood gets frozen in time while you're away. Once you accept and pay the tuition, you'll be headed off to Uni. After doing that, you either interact with a computer or your smartphone (added by UL, btw - it was a Blackberry without Uni) and you'll have an 'Enroll in University' interaction where you'll pick a degree plan, how many classes (1, 2, or 3) and how long your semester will be (1 week or 2 weeks). You interact with the bucket to take the entrance test (it looks at your skills and tries to match you up with a degree that uses those skills). They will leave you a green bucket with some university freebies and the entrance exam. If you have University Life installed, you'll get a visit from the university mascot when you start a new game.

Sims 3 custom vacation world