The only problem with that is , any one who likes living out in the boonies, no suits or godwannabes screwing up your life, probably will wish for the good old days eventually.
There are housing strips, literally, in my home town, where they would build a short access road may by three-eighths of a mile long and build a strip of houses a mile , plus or minus, out side the city limits.
Now they are surrounded by strip plazas and other business bric-a-brac.
They miss the days they were surrounded by farms.