unhappiness from pop-rushing question

[rabhison]

I've looked around the forums and couldn't find an answer to this question:

I had one city near floodplains/wheat, and was pop-rushing it for units. When the unhappiness there was getting too high, I pop-rushed a settler, and built a city nearby. I then pop-rushed another settler and abandoned the first city.

All of a sudden the neighboring city with a population of two became unhappy because of oppression. However, I hadn't pop-rushed anything there before. Did the unhappiness of the abandoned city somehow get transferred to the neighboring city? Any answers appreciated.

 

[Kilroy]

Yes. When you abandon a city that's unhappy due to pop-rushing or drafting, the unhappiness transfers to nearby cities. What you tried to do used to be a hated exploit, before 1.16.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

if you have looked around the forum, you should have seen the FAQ thread and the Newbie Question thread - please ask Qs like this on over there in the future.