Jumped on this bandwagon too, liking it so far. My villagers are fun, on my island there's 2 monkeys (Al who looks kinda sickly and Flip who's a jock), a sheep called Frita, the squid Marina who keeps getting sick, and Bianca who wants to be a superstar.
They're all pretty fun, but right now my interactions with them are still fairly limited to chatting, giving/receiving gifts, and sometimes they lose something or get sick. Hope there's more varied interaction coming. Two of them were singing together once, very cute.
Just put the entire island into massive debt by poor infrastructure planning. I've selected a 228k bridge, so that'll be my project for the month lol.
Haven't found a turnip yet, where do they grow? The raccoontrepreneurs want to buy them, but they don't seem to sell them?