Except I do I DO put out 50/100 buy offers. ALL. THE. TIME. And they don't get filled. So I feel I do have a right to complain.
You certainly do, but I doubt many others can say the same.
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Probably because you would never be able to feed Golden Farrow if prices were so high. Not if you planned on doing anything else with the gold...
True, if food costs so much due to the area you're in not producing enough of a surplus, why should you expect to be able to spend that additional gold from the additional population on anything else?
It's the law of marginal utility. If you want your city to get to full population, you
will increase demand for food and thus drive up prices. It's nothing unnatural if you hit a point where you can't afford to increase the population of a large city.