Don't pull out the "it's not possible" etc.etc. card.
Look at games like The Witcher. In that game all NPCs move around, leave their houses, work outside during daytime, eat lunch, breakfast and supper, wash their laundry, hide unter a roof when it starts to rain, chat with each other in the streets, flee from monsters or band up to drive them out, go to sleep in their houses at night...

...and the complete game, from start to finish, is fully, completely 100% covered by (excellent) voice-acting in English, German, French, Russian, Polish, Spanish and Rumanian. Produced by a small-scale independent studio (at the time).

So don't excuse SE's lazyness. They had by faaaaar more resources and did by faaaaar a worse job. Cities are a SHAME. Even when compared to FFXIV.