t is fitting that the governor of a great city should live in an appropriate style. You are free to spend your own savings on a home, and there are several to choose from, depending on how much money you want to spend and how much space you want to take up.

The governor's residence differs from all other buildings in one way: Its cost comes directly out of your personal savings. (See “Money”, page 99).

The governor's home is always one of the smartest areas of a city, popular with all manner of social climbers and other snobs. The larger and more expensive your governor's residence is, the more desirability it imparts to its surroundings.

Note, too, that the quality of the governor's residence affects the overall prosperity of a city. Your residence is in some sense a mark of how prosperous the city is; a very prosperous city is unlikely to have a governor living in some small shack, and a city with no governor's residence at all will never achieve much in the way of Prosperity. (See “Ratings”, page 33).