Agreed. When my late grandparents moved to Damascus, Maryland in the 1950s, their street was a commons cared for by the property owners. Since each owner had little interest in doing the whole of the street, the street was horribly deteriorated.
My grandfather, a good Christian man, had his own little paving company back then, so he generously used his own resources to ultimately bring the street to a usable condition. Eventually, the town took over the street and it has remained usable ever since.
I think we Americans have become more and more lazy through the years.
That seems to open the door for our government nannies.