Hi - my daughter & I both play and need neighbors. I'll try adding some of the folks listed here. My GOT ID is stitcherIam and my game center I'd is STITCHER-I-AM. My daughters GOT ID (as well as her game center I'd) is LUVPUPSMBZC.
I too wonder how people are able to be at high levels with pretty gardens (lots of flowers & paths etc). When you move stuff into your archive, it depletes the XPs accordingly, so how do they keep increasing??
Notes: I too exit out of the app 'in between' 'cause I think it recharges faster than leaving it running in the background (while you're in other games or apps). My getting stuck (spinning clock) has improved in 2 areas: first, when you're playing and you get back up to power 10, I don't immediately go play then - it seemed to get stuck... Instead I wait till I have power of 12 (even though you only need 10) - its as though the server there doesn't know that you really have 10 when it just gets to there. Also, when away, if playing on a slow wifi (I.e. the coffee store), or playing my 3G, I now close out of ALL other apps (described above - press the minus sign on the jiggling app icon from the running apps line) - including closing out of safari, app store, email, etc. these 2 things have helped me ALOT - hardly ever now get the spinning clock!