Zero attractiveness?

[Faskimy]

Hi,

In one hour of playing, my 60 000 citizens city went from highly attractive to not attractive at all, while all I did is try slightly improve stuff and added some housing (because demands were super high). Now I dropped my taxation to the point where I'm nearly in defecit, while one hour ago, I had + 250 000$/hour of balance.

So yeah, my attractiveness bars were almost all in the top, and now, they're all gone. When I look at the detailed information for my attractiveness, it says this :

For industries :

+ Taxes
+ Labor Availability
+ High-skilled labor availability
+ Local Demand

ALL IN GREEN. There is no negative point. And my unemployement rate is near 18%, while an hour ago, it was 6,8%

How am I supposed to understand what's going on here? What is the problem?? The game just do odd things and I have no way of understanding what's happening, or what solution is necessary.

Very frustrating

[franzeusq]

slow down progress = easy mode

[Seven Foot Sock Monster]

Some of your citizens may be in education. It takes time for new citizens to "settle in" and start becoming productive members of the workforce. Constantly lowering taxes wont make them age up any quicker.
You can kick them out of school more quickly by enabling the "school's out" ordinance in the policies tab, but your citizens will be less educated which will lead to some long term issues like more trash piling up and dirtier industries.

Improving outside connections via trains, harbours and airports will increase productivity, which will attract new businesses and the citizens will follow.
Traffic slows productivity by making it more difficult for businesses to get resources in and out of the city. Having more fluid traffic flow will increase your city's attractiveness. Mass transit and encouraging cycling via the policies tab can help with this.

Use local resources wherever possible. Industries need resources to function. If they aren't available locally they will have to import them, which increases traffic makes them less productive overall and slows growth. Look for natural resources like timber, fertile land, oil and minerals to increase local productivity and earn a nice tax bonus.

Finally, increase your land values by placing parks around your suburbs and adding transport connections to your industrial/commercial zones. A direct bus line from your suburb to industrial sector will increase the attractiveness of both areas.

Hope this helps.