if you guys really want to not have to deal with red faces and not massacering your plebians, just dont let squlaor build up. It's pretty simple, i never upgrade my farming past level 2..it may sound simple but try it out. Squlaor increases as the settlement grows very quickly. When you massacre the city, look at the squalor...it goes down by a great amount, and your population stays pretty happy.

So, farms = squalor and squalor =