Yes, all the time. Im guessing that for some reason there arent so many problems up here with the pests you are concerned with?
Also relatively unwormy apples, currants, elders, brambles, strawberries, plums, gooseberries, pears, hazels, walnuts (white and black, not english), plums and a few other things grow evrywhere, not to mention some vegetables, and there are no rat problems. Up here the cold winter, hawks, and foxes probably clean up most of those. Of course, you have more snakes and coyotes that could move in to take advantage of any free meat running around, then again, I would think an enterprising individual would know what to do with those, too.
"Up here" is the operative phrase. My experience includes locations like Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas. And I should've qualified my claim accordingly.
"Down here" we can usually benefit from wild grapes, sand plums and mayhaws -- but little else will produce for human consumption in the wild. A prominent exception is wild pecans, which can actually be harvested commercially in alternate years in some areas.
In any event, the expectation that a city -- "up there" or "down here" -- can plant fruit trees and expect any kind of an edible crop without proper management strikes me as absurd.