Moving

In the Animal Crossing series, animal neighbors will move out after staying in your town for awhile, though some, but rarely, will move out only a few days after you start the game. Some neighbors are easier to convince to stay than others, while other neighbors can be tough to get to leave. If a neighbor asks to move away, you have the choices of saying either "Don't go!" or "Moving time!"/"Please move!" Different animals have different responses. If an animal has been thinking on whether to move or not for quite a few days (even a week), he or she will move away. It may take the villager anywhere from almost a day to a few days to pack and leave. Once a villager moves out, his or her house vanishes and leaves behind a patch of dirt and a sign (the ones you find around town). A couple days after a move, a new villager will move in on top of a sign somewhere in your town. There's a way to figure out which personality neighbor will move in:

• If a peppy villager moves out, either another peppy, normal, or jock villager will move in.
• If a normal or jock villager moves out, either a normal or jock villager moves in.
• If a snooty moves out, either a snooty, normal, or jock moves in.

...And so on. You always have a chance of a normal or jock villager moving in. When a villager moves out, a villager of the same personality has a chance of moving in as well as the regular normal and jock personalities.