Sure, why not.
My advice for new players is stop aging up. The tech tree isn't there for you to climb like a monkey. If you're not sure if you're ready to age up then you probably aren't. I recently went to TE and I'm still seeing people in my hood with no GBs or low level crap GBs along with goods and residential buildings as far back as Iron Age. Along with the obligatory smattering of partially finished event buildings. An quick and dirty rule of thumb is if you're consistently in the bottom half of your hood you have no business aging up. In fact, I would never age up if I weren't consistently at least in the top 10 of my hood.