Basically... I found ths sims 3 to be....
1. good for my creativity
2. egducational but not to much.
3. an alomost endless amount of fun.
But it has these problems
installing... updating... and loseing saved data when given unusal circumsatnces.
it is a long wait to load a world in game.
that being said... it feel i've learned alot from it.
so if you have not played it at least take a look at all it's possiblites.
besides that... what could be better then creating a simulated world... where you can make anything you want?