So... I just turned this game back on today. The last time I played this was this time last year (some other games at the time distracted me from playing AC much). Thankfully, the me from a year ago was smart and put the Beautiful ordinance into effect so I don't have any weeds at all in my town (or at the very least, only a few, which I picked just now).
I'm... tempted to continue to play this game again but it's hard to say how long this will last. It might just be because of this 'summer drought' of new games (for the 3DS at least) that I'm returning to this.
Plus, I never finished getting my house to 100% (whereas in previous ACs I at least played it for that long to do it!) So, if I stop playing it'll be because I did that but that'll take awhile now, I guess.
Already paid off most of my loan for whatever the last thing I did to my house was...
But yeah, I found it pretty amusing that it was literally 12 months since I played this game and my town is pretty much as if I never stopped playing it -- all my villagers are still here (well, there's one new one apparently... I guess I never had a full town? Dunno).