Has anyone been able to remove townies for good?

I read one of the Guru's comments on this. The way I understand it is, if the town needs say a bar tender sim, it will create one to fill that position as needed. So even if you have say 12 townies already, if they don't have the mixology trait then it automatically creates a new townie on the fly increasing the number of townies. Anyway, I know that doesn't help but you may want to read the guru threads on this.