Squalor

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@Yoda. Cheesy.
Just make happiness and law a priority once your economy is off the ground and you won't have to do that. Once you are making a decent profit every turn, just concentrate on law and happiness, it will pay off in the long run. Just avoid the temptation of another greedy hundred florins profit a turn in the short turn and look at a longer term empire. Remember... when you have to drop taxes and increase population growth to stave off rebellion you've lost those few hundred florins anyway, and it's a harder way back.

@Aetius. I usually start to concentrate on happiness and law when my city is over 6000, before then it's all money money money. After 6000 you should be turning a good profit anyway.

[sapi]

I really don't see that squalor is that big a problem - indeed i actively build farms to encourage population growth.

By the time squalor becomes a real issue, you should have both built buildings to keep the population happy and have quite a few 'glory' bonuses from successful crusades and the like.

My cities are welcome to rebel - but if they do, their walls will be razed and the population slaughtered.