Where to build my next city

[shadics]

I need help, I don't know where to build my next city, I need iron but I have a difficult time selecting terrain
After many attempts, I finally have a game where I feel I'm doing very well.
But I have the problem that the iron that appeared in my territory is in unfavorable positions for a city.
I would like to know where you would put a city to obtain iron, I add that at this moment I do not have any port city

 

[Colonel_Butthurt]

Ouch, yeah, that's rough. I believe I'd go with Position 2.

 

[[Y]]

What do you need out of this city? Do you need a city that will generate a lot of commerce? Pump out lots of swordsmen? Build a navy?

How fast do you need the iron? Can you wait until the city's borders grow, or do you need iron-only units earlier than that?

How much longer until the city on the top right grows its borders? That will get you iron too, and if that happens about as fast as a new city growing its borders, it isn't worth planning this new city around iron.

 

[shadics]

What do you need out of this city? Do you need a city that will generate a lot of commerce? Pump out lots of swordsmen? Build a navy?

How fast do you need the iron? Can you wait until the city's borders grow, or do you need iron-only units earlier than that?

How much longer until the city on the top right grows its borders? That will get you iron too, and if that happens about as fast as a new city growing its borders, it isn't worth planning this new city around iron.

I ended up building the city in position 1
I just continued the game at night, so I made that quick decision

I hadn't considered all those questions.
The city's territory has many turns left to expand by about 200
And I didn't need the iron urgently... but I was scared of being too far behind, if you look at the minimap, I only had 4 cities and the rivals all had more, so I felt a little pressured to have to expand to not be left behind.
I thought it would be a good decision to expand into one of the irons
Was the decision bad?