Neighborhoods won't load after installing Ikea

[socurious]

For some inexplicable (to me anyway) reason, my neighborhoods won't load.  The game loads beautifully, but when I try to enter any neighborhood, they go through the loading process and stall.  I deleted the neighborhood manager package, and still none will load, even in a vanilla game.  This is redunkulous!  Any ideas?

[sloppyhousewife]

Are you sure that the neighborhoods won't load? How long have you been waiting? I'm asking because after installing IKEA, *my* hoods took so ridiculously long to load (~5 min, whereas usually, it's ~30 seconds) that I was sure that something had been broken. That happened only once though (but you have to wait for the first loading process to complete), now everything's back to normal.

[socurious]

Ahh that could be it!  The initial startup of the game takes only about 3 minutes so when I start to load a neighborhood and it takes in excess of 20 minutes, I assumed it was freezing.     I think that's an incredibly long time.  I did manage to get Strangetown and Pleasantview to load, so you are probably right. 

Thanks for the heads up!