Disbanding Cities...

[Joesocwork]

I am playing for a cultural victory using Greece; I have been using the settler gambit and creating many cities left and right, placing them next to opponents as my magnet/ fly catching cities, and pop rushing cultural improvements. Of course as cities start to flip the radii overlap making them unproductive. I know that razing an opponents cities lowers diplomacy, but what are the effects on my civ of disbanding my own cities once they accomplished their goal of flipping the A.I.'s cities?
Thanks
JoeSocWork

 

[DaveMcW]

If most of the citizens in the city are yours, abandoning it won't affect your repuation.

However, any remaining unhappiness from pop rushing will jump to the nearest city.

 

[Joesocwork]

Woops, I wasn't precise enough; I waited until I became a Republic/ Democracy with a stable economy to rush improvements, not pop-rush. But unhappiness jumping to other cities is intriguing. In addition to the question of morale w/in my civ that I was initially asking, there's also the question of culture points accumulating in many more larger but smaller cities versus being spread out among lesser but larger more accommodative cities

 

[DaveMcW]

You only get a few non-corrupt cities (the ones closest to your capitol), so you want those to be as large as possible.

The only thing corrupt cities are good for is supporting taxmen and holding culture improvements. It's better to have a lot of small corrupt cities, to save on hospital/happiness support as well as cram more culture into your land area.