If this is satire, well just know that this still exists in the United States.. I've seen this nonsense. It's like they don't even bat an eye. Like car culture is so ingrained in our society that people look at us probably like we're freaks. And it affects how we operate as people.

Of course it's satire. I'm kind of shocked how many people don't recognize it as satire.

Nope. My city is both trying to make the old streetcar suburb neighborhoods walkable again while also annexing places that are miles of road with nothing but sterile housing along it.

When develops buy some farmland, plunk a bunch of terribly build single family houses on it, sell it all off, and walk away the people who bought the houses find out that they're not in a municipality. They wanted a house and low taxes and their own yard, but there's no schools, fire dept, police, real water services, or road maintenance. So... They start begging to be annexed into the city to have the old downtown's taxes pay for their services.

It looks good on paper to add land and population, plus shiny new roads don't cost much for about 15 years, which is longer than most city council members stay on the council. It's someone else's problem when the bills come due. Our city council have been pushovers for decades and just keep adding shithole tax burden neighborhoods to the city and it's all starting to die fast.