Just starting to experience my first squalor problems - havent been able to afford to upgrade some minor cities into large cities and squalor is rising through the roof.

Obviously this is expected and "Not a problem" in terms of whether or not it is working as intended - squalor should be going through the roof.

When i finally upgraded one city squalor vanished, literally, over night - or at least back down to the manageable 15% or so.


So, to answer the original question: Yes squalor is still there but does not appear to be an overwhelming condition at this point.



As to "unrest" - other than Antioch (captured by english on crusade) I've no problems with unrest anywhere else. Hard to say what the "unrest" there is from, as the religious unrest and similar are labelled differently. Tax is low so maybe its an outside aspect or spies - i do kill off a byzantine spy every turn it seems, so i suspect that "unrest" is linked to spy activity.