Again, you forget that De-Legro and I had two lordships, a duchy, and a Council position in D'hara at various times. Taking Paisly and Paisland and letting the food-producing Qubel and QL go rogue made your situation untenable. The fact that D'hara continues on the same stupid path doesn't excuse anything.
You seem to forget that we don't play in the BattleMaster of 2006. To expand, we need nobles. We didn't have enough nobles to go back eastwards. And should you have not noticed, Port Nebel must be conquered first before any expansion into the eastern rurals can be made.
De-Legro was in D'Hara... when it was small, when all the cities had 1% production due to low population at all times basically, and when there were more nobles. We had more rurals back then to feed smaller cities. Port Raviel and Paisly have grown considerably since these days. We didn't even need to import any food at all in these days, even when we had Sallowtown (which was lost due to rogues, not lack of food).
As soon as the new estates system will be implemented, we'll be more than happy to go back to colonize all of our claimed lands. Until then, estates won't allow us. We were already stretched thin before someone started a TO of Qubel, and that was thanks to a few migrants from Caerwyn and beyond. Wouldn't have even been imaginable before. Estate cover would have been so bad that the cities would have been absolutely worthless.
We are always knocking on everyone's door for food. But the war against Caerwyn screwed us on an important supplier. And other realms are also seeing their cities grow and therefore their surpluses shrink.
If the Lurians had the ability to feed Port Nebel, then if he cares about his religion so much he can sell D'Hara that very same food he'd give them. D'Hara isn't holding any food back from it's stupid peasants, and we can't do anything to stop immigration either. D'Hara is the land of retarded peasants that join en masse places they know they won't be able to find food in, and who complain against the government's taxes all the time therefore cutting the government's power to buy that very food they require. And if we expand to acquire more farmlands for them, well then they'll just burn it all down because there won't be enough nobles to watch over them. D'Haran peasants *want* to die. They worship the god of starvation, and pray every day for their warehouses to run out on the next day.
If any other realm could do better, then that just means they are the problem themselves, as they are stockpiling food and refusing to feed the city.
Koli's family could also just move out if they are too poor or stupid to use their noble powers to keep themselves fed. Hell, they must be like the peasants I mention, if they chose to live in Port Nebel instead of Paisly or Port Raviel. Port Nebel always was the poorest child. Since it rarely ever produced much gold, it was always sacrificed in favor of the cities that actually made an income and therefore had the power to purchase food from abroad. Better have one city starve than all of them, after all.
