I don't go anywhere near those regions if I can help it. Occasionally I pick a random spot on a mainland road and just walk and see where I end up. Sometimes there's horrors, other times there's gems to see.

my favorite thing was simhopping so I felt the Linden home creep very hard. I have a modified script that excludes linden-owned regions, but then i lose all the "normal" mainland. no real solution for this, unless I want to change my methods.