The great Oscar Wilde once said “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness”

New Haven with palm trees, better known as “Portofino”, has ran out of ideas for their new region. This kind of thing happens all the time, landscapers get burn out and lift ideas from several other places. Portofino ran out of ideas from the first regions laid down. Anyone who remembers New Haven will remember the layout, look and overall design. Well, if you take that look, layout and overall design and shove a few palm tree’s here and there, you basically have Portofino.

When Magnolia City first appeared, the creator of New Haven with palm trees (AKA Portofino), Cara Olivieri, made a few cryptic comments on her Facebook page about how there was another community copying Portofino. Most people surmised that she was taking shots at Magnolia. When people from New Haven with palm trees (AKA Portofino) actually came over to Magnolia, the only thing they see was that the roads were the same. That was it. The roads.

What followed after that, was Portofino started copying the marketing that Vic Mornington was now posting for Magnolia.

Take for instance the official SL forum…

No other contemporary RP community had seen marketing and advertising the way Vic is currently doing it for Magnolia. However, no other RP community has decided to blatantly copy Vic’s style of marketing more so than, yes, Portofino (aka New Haven with palm trees). The original Magnolia post is dated in May, Portofino showed up imitating Vic’s marketing in July.

It doesnt end there though. They decided to imitate Magnolia again in what can only be described as a “two birds with one stone” approach to being added to the Editors Picks AND copying the marketing at the same time. Why did they go down the road of the Dest Guide? You guessed it, they were copying what Magnolia had already done. However, it doesnt end there…

Here’s New Haven with palm trees (aka Portofino) listing in the Destination Guide.

Doesnt that picture style, windlight and subject look familiar? It should, because it’s directly copied from one of the early marketing pictures for Magnolia…

Now, most of you are probably thinking its just a coincidence that Portofino (aka New Haven with palm trees) has practically copied step-for-step Vic Morningtons marketing. That Portofino (aka New Haven with palm trees) has copied the styling of their Destination Guide pic. That Portofino (aka New Haven with palm trees) has copied Magnolia’s path into the Destination Guide.

It’s all coincidence, right?

Here is a snapshot of the central “belt” of the Magnolia City region.

Here is a snapshot of the central belt of the new region in Portofino

Still not convinced? Ok, how about from a different angle?

…and another angle!

It’s one thing to copy another communitys marketing.

It’s something else to directly lift a layout of building, the type of building, the style of building and then transplant it on to your own region.

Cara accused Magnolia of copying her Portofino. like the spineless coward she is, she took down most of those posts, probably once she started to realise that people not in her immediate sycophantic narcissist circles were getting fed up with it with some of them even leaving. Where did they move to? Well, Magnolia of course, why did they move to Magnolia? Cause Portofino is basically a holding circle for future Magnolia City residents, and Cara knows it.

As Oscar Wilde once said “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness”, and there is no one more mediocre than Cara Olivieri. An estate owner so mediocre…she has to lift an entire building style from another community. An estate owner so mediocre, she has to copy the marketing from another community, and an estate owner so mediocre…she basically made another New Haven, and shoved palm tree’s in it.

We fully expect Cara to start gaslighting her followers on social media. However, this blog post, plus the video that Vic has uploaded shows all the documented proof needed to come to one single conclusion:

Cara Olivieri is an unimaginative plodder, who steals ideas and styles from other communities and claims it as “Unique”.

There will be people who continue to support cara and support her actions in stealing directly from another community, these are the kind of people who have already backstabbed and driven out people from the Portofino community. These are the same people who you would NOT want living in your own community. These are the people who Cara surrounds herself with, the basement dwellers of the contemporary RP scene who are happy with Cara being the parasite of the contemporary RP community.

Some people in the inner circles of what was New Haven blame us, the three girls in SL, for the eventual closure of New Haven itself. Well, if thats the case, then Cara Olivieri is now our new Brian Lake, and we are going to have a lot of fun uncovering her blatant bullshit and theivery.

We await Michael/Roberts fake legal threats on behalf of Cara, we’ll file them in the same bin that Cara’s reputation is now sitting in.

Written by Fenella
Edited by Lia
Checked by Liza