I have to admit I am happy Squalor is less of a game breaker than it was in RTW campaigns but it is a problem nonetheless...
The problem I find is that lowering taxes also promotes population growth in its own right. However in keeping with the RTW way of doing things I outright refuse to upgrade the farms unless I really have to in order to kick start a short growth.
Really I have a fixation of controlling the growth so squalor is less of a problem, but your right it is a problem. But the real problems I find come when you get religious unrest combined with Squalor (usually the result of Heresy rising in that zone).
But saying all that squalor was a huge problem in RTW, and it especially was when you had a culture penalty on unrest in the town because of buildings of another faction there. (Not much in itself but if you capture a city at the top of the tech tree you are screwed in trying to change its culture to your own)
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