Akenaten: no it was not a good place to live

 TeaAtTrianon posts a link to an article about Amerna, the ciity of the heretic pharoah 

The city’s layout indicates a well-organized community. Recent excavations have uncovered buildings that may have served administrative functions, including structures resembling an early town hall or police station. Hawass noted that the city offers rare insight into daily life and suggested that its artisans and workers lived comfortably. He said, “We found many showers inside the houses.”

sorry guys but the skeletens showed a different picture: From Sci American:

3,300-Year-Old Egyptian Skeletons Reveal Lower Classes' Hard Lives More than three quarters of the adults showed signs of degenerative joint disease, likely from hauling heavy loads, and about two thirds of these adults had at least one broken bone....While an Egyptian pharaoh built majestic temples filled with sparkling treasures, the lower classes performed backbreaking work on meager diets, new evidence suggests.